Madras 1985

Q1: I want to get at what you're saying without any stress, strain or effort. How can one do this?

Q2: What is myself and what is its relationship to the cosmos?

Q3: While there is no gradation for the attainment of truth, how do you question the usefulness of self-preparation for the right kind of body, mind, harmony?

Q4: Is not psychological time a fact?

Q1: You have shown that thought is limited, but what other instrument of enquiry is available to man?

Q2: Is silence the pivotal point in your teachings for the transformation of man? To your closest circle you have advocated the need for sitting still.

Q3: Can humanity survive without a universal code of morality, which is true for all time and climates? Can an earnest man discover it by his reason and goodwill?

Q4: If sorrow is common for all of us why don't we have love, which is also common to all of us?

Can Thought Give Human Beings Security?

Is the rest of humanity separate from us? Is it thought that creates division? What is the reality, the origin of thinking?

Can one live a life without a single problem? Can a conditioned brain solve problems?

Aren't feelings, emotions, sentimentality also part of thought?

Is there duality at all, or only facts? Can my brain deal with the fact of what I am and not what I should be?

Is time a factor of fear? Is it possible to stop thought and time?

Will you give complete, passionate attention or just listen and carry on with the fears?

The Shallowness of a Life Without Passion

Can the brain, seeing how conflict damages it be free of it, be healthy, rational, sane? Without self-interest can one live in the world?

To enquire into beauty, mustn't one understand why human beings are absorbed by a thing? When you are absorbed what takes place? Can you be free of the self without being absorbed by anything?

Do we function only with one or two senses or with all our senses fully alive?

Can the sorrow in the world end? If I end my sorrow what effect has that on the rest of the world? Will the world change because I have changed?

When you suffer is it self-pity? Do you know what passion is?

Death is Not at the Far End of Life

What do death, love, religion, meditation mean?

What is it that lives if I die? At death will my consciousness die or continue? Have you ever ended something voluntarily?

Can you live with death while living ending your experience every day?

Is love the remembrance you have gathered the sexual pleasures, desires, comforts, the images? Or is it entirely different from desire, memory? Will you end all that to find out what love is?

Is your consciousness different from another's?

Will the accumulation of psychological knowledge bring about that great state of sacredness?