Publisher's Note

This volume contains the talks given by Mother to the students, teachers and sadhaks of the Ashram in her "Wednesday classes" from the beginning of 1957 to the end of November 1958. These were the last of the talks given at the Playground. Mother generally began by reading from one of her French translations of Sri Aurobindo's works. From January to April 1957 the text was Thoughts and Glimpses, from April to October The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth and from October 1957 to November 1958 the last six chapters of The Life Divine. After the reading, Mother commented on the text or answered questions.

 

The talks, given in French, were tape-recorded. Texts and translations of passages of most of the talks were first published in the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education (later Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) between February 1957 and November 1959, in August 1961 and from February to August 1963. The first complete edition of the French text of the talks of 1957 was published in 1969 under the title Entretiens 1957. Entretiens 1958 appeared in 1972. A new English translation of the complete series was brought out in book-form in 1973 as Questions and Answers 1957-58. The present volume, number nine 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

 

1957-58

 

Contents

 

PRE CONTENT

 

Publisher's Note

 

1957

 

January

February

March

April

May

June

2 January

6 February

6 March

3 April

1 May

5 June

9 January

7 February

8 March

10 April

8 May

12 June

16 January

13 February

13 March

17 April

15 May

19 June

23 January

20 February

15 March

24 April

29 May

26 June

30 January

 

20 March

 

 

 

 

 

22 March

 

 

 

 

 

27 March

 

 

 

 

July

August

September

October

November

December

3 July

7 August

4 September

2 October

13 November

4 December

9 July

14 August

11 September

9 October

27 November

11 December

10 July

21 August

18 September

16 October

 

18 December

17 July

28 August

25 September

23 October

 

 

24 July

 

 

30 October

 

 

31 July

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958

 

January

February

March

April

May

June

1 January

5 February

5 March

2 April

7 May

4 June

8 January

12 February

12 March

9 April

14 May

11 June

15 January

19 February

19 March

16 April

21 May

18 June

22 January

26  February

26 March

23 April

28 May

25 June

29 January

Appendix

 

30 April

 

 

Appendix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July

August

September

October

November

9 July

6 August

3 September

1 October

5 November

16 July

13 August

10 September

8 October

12 November

23 July

15 August

17 September

22 October

26 November

30 July

27 August

24 September

29 October