object:2.25 - List of Topics in Each Talk
book class:Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
author class:A B Purani
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
List of Topics in Each Talk
List of Topics in Each Talk
| Introduction | |
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| Part I | Sri Aurobindo's personality, his outer retirement; outside contacts after 1910; spiritual personalities: Vibhutis and Avatars; transformtion of human personality |
| Part II | The Home of the Guru |
| Part III | The Evening Sittings |
| Chapter 1 | Meeting the Master |
| Part I | Author's first meeting, December 1918 |
| Part II | Authors second meeting, March 1921 |
| Part III | Meetings with others: |
| Nov 1920 | Disciple: Nature of spiritual commune, self-reliance |
| 11-02-26 | Einstein's Relativity; Reason and Knowledge; Absolutes, "Laws of Nature", Yogic and other forces, Cagliostro; Tantra; action of Truth |
| 22-06-26 | Patanjali's Rajayoga |
| 31-08-26 | Time, Space, Science; consciousness, Maya, Matter, Gods and humans |
| 15-01-39 | Healing; Science, Eddington; Spengler's Decline of the West, Morris's Aryan Path, history and destiny, Arabs, Greeks, Romans, modern Europe, human progress |
| 17-01-39 | Vishnu Purāna: Krishna, Buddha |
| 18-01-39 | Huxley's Ends and Means: Napoleon, Caesar, Kamal Pasha, Gandhi; avatars and religions |
| 27-02-39 | Sri Aurobindo: linguist and magician |
| 20-12-39 | S.K Maitra on Kant and Gita; Religion and Reason |
| 23-07-23 | Satyagraha, Puritanism, Kshatriya spirit; suffering and fanaticism; Gandhi and labour problems; Satyagraha and Prahlad; political dogmatism |
| 16-10-25 | Guru and disciple; Abhyasa and Tapasya |
| 02-03-26 | Higher Power and receptivity; Guru and personal effort; Tirupati; central being and sincerity; conditions for transformation |
| 09-04-26 | Drinking, narcotics, Samadhi; Sri Aurobindo's experiences |
| 18-05-26 | Having a Shakti; speed of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga; 'external' work, 'isms' |
| 08-08-26 | Life on other planets; preconceived notions; present-day philosophy |
| 18-08-26 | Supermanhood, gradations of Supermind; power of will; origin of speech |
| 06-09-26 | Guru and disciple, Grace, preferences; consent for Divine to act; measure of spirituality; outer success and inner progress; energy from Yoga; money power |
| 09- 09-26 | Hostiles: controlling and transforming them; Higher Power and Adhar |
| 10- 09-26 | Chakras; aim of Vaman Avatar; Mind and Truth |
| 20-09-26 | Fitness for Yoga; success and fall in Yoga; music and Theosophy in Japan |
| 26-09-26 | Higher Power and mind; sincerity and humility |
| 02-10-26 | Forms of government; Divine work; realisation of God and change of nature; Jiva and central being; faith |
| Chapter 10 | On Vedic Interpretation |
| 1923 | Symbolism in Vedic hymns |
| 08-07-24 | Poverty never the Indian ideal |
| 04-06-26 | Symbolism, numbers, Tantra |
| Chapter 11 | On Education |
| May 1923 | Montessori principle; principles to bring out the true individual |
| 26-08-26 | Arya; education in ancient and classical India; Yoga and external personality; greatness and morality |
| Chapter 12 | On Miracles |
| 26-03-24 | Life-span in Puranas; Rama and Krishna; mastery over body, supramentalising the body |
| 24-04-24 | Coué's method of cure; psychic phenomena and cure; local politics |
| 21-09-25 | Earthquakes in Japan; Tamas in India; work in the physical |
| 26-12-38 | Bāla-bhāva; self-offering; meditation; physical being; dreams, visions, fantasies; Pranam and meditation with Mother |
| 27-12-38 | Municipalities; Indian system of government. Congress organisation; Hindi vs. English; racial persecution, Golden Age, Supermind, evolution and Avatars, Science |
| 28-12-38 | Doctors and Greek Augurs; European war, generals and soldiers |
| 29-12-38 | Psychic being, Ramana Maharshi's experience; Tagore's meditation; choosing a guru; spiritual realisations; truth in science and political systems; immortality; intellectuals |
| 04-01-39 | Fasting, diseases; person and personality; liberation; yoga and illness; psycho-analysis |
| 05-01-39 | Sri Aurobindo: Yoga, politics, planchette, Nirvana |
| 06-01-39 | Sadhana and ego; humility, Sri Aurobindo at Calcutta; communism, dictatorship |
| 07-01-39 | Removing the ego; psychic individuality; changing the nature; "brilliant period" of the Ashram; newcomers and demands of Yoga |
| 08-01-39 | Hitler, Gandhi, the English; Bengal during Swadeshi; Sri Aurobindo's father and brothers |
| 12-01-39 | A child sadhika; Stalin; Japan's agenda; Congress; European politics |
| 14-01-39 | Yogic predictions, astrology; Yoga and Westerners; faith; former sadhaks |
| 16-01-39 | Materialisation, reviving the dead; āshish to ashes; Ashram and public works; Gandhism; Sri Aurobindo in Baroda and England; Ahimsa |
| 17-01-39 | Shakti; Bhakti; Impersonal and Personal God; Vishnu Purāna; Veda, Tantra, Vedanta |
| 19-01-39 | Problems of society, communes; propaganda, morality; psychic and evolution; saints and yogis; boons of Krishna and Shiva; Bhakti, Jnana, Buddhism |
| 20-01-39 | European politics and war. Western visitors and Ashramites |
| 21-01-39 | African Indians and Gandhism; destiny, inner voice; Sri Aurobindo, revolutionaries, Nivedita |
| 22-01-39 | Fasting; Russian and Japanese armies; Mussolini and France; Western visitors and Ashram; inner voice and standards of right and wrong |
| 26-01-39 | Political, human values; political organisation, Life; Indian politics; national unification: India, Germany, Japan; Hitler, Mussolini, Kamal Pasha, Stalin; Socialism in India |
| 28-01-39 | Hathayogic feats; animal intelligence; Congress politics |
| 03-02-39 | Yoga, experiences, fear, health, ancestral religion; Subhas, Tagore, Nehru, Gandhi; British politics, Palestine; Roosevelt, Hitler, England and France; corruption in public life |
| 05-02-39 | Nivedita; Jainism; Sri Aurobindo's experiences; European war, Roosevelt; Indian socialists |
| 07-02-39 | Subhas, Socialism; Spanish civil war: France and Italy;England and France |
| 09-02-39 | Indian politics and politicians; Princes of Baroda; poetry and masses |
| 19-02-39 | Socialism and Communism |
| 21-02-39 | Political system for India |
| 24-02-39 | Mind and disease; collective or national being; nation as Shakti |
| 25-02-39 | Satyagraha and students; labour strikes in Europe and India |
| 12-03-39 | Nehru, Gandhi, Subhas |
| 06-05-39 | Arjava, medical diagnosis, intuition |
| 16-05-39 | Spiritual experience, resistance in the physical, and the ego |
| May 1939 | The Divine's Omnipotence |
| Chapter 20 | November - December 1939 |
| 19-11-39 | Love and physical relation; human love, love for the Divine |
| 21-11-39 | Human love, friendship, love for the Divine |
| 14-15-39 | Yogic action on world, Swami Dayananda of Bengal, Avatarhood; Rosicrucians, mysticism, ego and self; Buddhi and Mukti; Kant; disinterested action; Reason and Truth |
| 15-12-39 | Reason, spiritual experience; the Absolute, knowledge by identity; Siddhis |
| 19-04-43 | Spiritism; ego and effort in Yoga; Guru and his external nature |
| 07-08-43 | Faith and reason; Sri Aurobindo's interventions in the War, Brahman vs. Brahman, Sri Aurobindo's message about Cripps' Proposals |
| 03-10-43 | Human element in the past and present wars; machines and human progress |
| 04-10-43 | Rajagopalachari, Wavell; public spirit; Jivatman; Mind and the Absolute |
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