Publisher's Note

 

This volume contains the talks Mother gave to the students, teachers and sadhaks of the Ashram in her "Wednesday classes" of 1956. This year Mother usually began by reading from her French translations of two of Sri Aurobindo's works. For most of the year the book was The Synthesis of Yoga (Part One, "The Yoga of Divine Works"). On November 21 she took up Thoughts and Glimpses. After the reading Mother answered questions on the text or on other subjects. These questions were either asked on the spot or submitted to her beforehand in writing.

 

The talks, conducted in French, were tape-recorded at the time. They were first published in an incomplete form in the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education (later Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) in various issues from 1956 to 1963.. The first complete edition of the French text, Entretiens 1956, was published in 1968.BetweenMarch 1970and August 1974a new English translation, complete and in chronological order, appeared in the monthly journal Mother India. This complete translation was brought out in book-form in 1973 as Questions and Answers .1956. The present volume, number eight of the Collected Works of the Mother (Centenary Edition) is a revision of the 1973 edition.

 

For quoted passages from Sri Aurobindo's works, references are to the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library edition..

Questions And Answers

 

1956

 

Contents

 

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Publisher's Note

 

January

February

March

April

May

June

4 January

1 February

7 March

4 April

2 May

6 June

11 January

8 February

14 March

11 April

9 May

13 June

18 January

15 February

21 March

18 April

16 May

20 June

25 January

22 February

28 March

25 April

23 May

27 June

 

29 February

 

 

30 May

 

 

July

August

September

October

November

December

4 July

1 August

5 September

3 October

7 November

5 December

11 July

8 August

12 September

10 October

14 November

12 December

18 July

15 August

19 September

17 October

21 November

19 December

25 July

22 August

26 September

24 October

28 November

26 December

 

29 August

 

31 October

 

 

 

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