Contents: By date
Index: Complete word list
Alphabetical index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Special indexes: Stories ~ Ouspensky ~ Devotion ~ Non-duality ~ Action
| Word | Year | Page | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith | 1961 | 14 D | Faith in Guru initially feels dualistic but is transformed on realisation. See Q. page 13 D. |
| Faith | 1964 | 108-109 D | Two types of people - those who take things on faith and those who want proof of everything. |
| Faith | 1965 | 220 D | Some people can accept the rules on trust and faith - they carry out the rules and reach the goal. But others lack that sort of faith and find rules torture. |
| Faith | 1965 | 222 D | Faith and two types of disciple. |
| Faith | 1965 | 236 D | Basis of faith is prior knowledge of truth. |
| Faith | 1970 | 389 D | Healing of 'ailments' in emotional centre in causal body can be effected by presence of conscious man with faith. |
| Faith | 1970 | 391 D | Buddhi is clarified only through faith. |
| Faith | 1970 | 413 D | Two levels of faith: interest, and deep faith where there is no doubt concerning the advice of the Guru. |
| Faith | 1970 | 432 D | Faith, attention to the teacher and practice are necessary in one of the ways, but there are other systems by which influence of Realised Man can be passed to disciples. |
| Faith | 1970 | 433 D | Example of faith working in disciple and through teacher. |
| Faith | 1970 | 452 D | Faith, sincerity, discipline are all needed to understand true knowledge. |
| Faith | 1971 | 494 D | How to have more faith: long practice, love the truth. |
| Faith | 1971 | 514 D | Establishing an unshakeable faith in Param-Atman puts us out of reach of all harm. See also page 517 D. |
| Faith | 1972 | 534 D | Hoard Bhakti and not worldly possessions. Transfer your attachment to Param-Atman. There is suffering in world as long as faith in Param-Atman is not there. |
| Faith | 1972 | 573 D | D.S. Just have faith that according to God's will everything is being done. Sacrifice all the limited consciousness. See H.H. comment on page 599 D. |
| Faith | 1974 | 629 D | Two ways of holding an experience of spiritual confidence - by mind and by faith held in emotional body. See story of Mahatma and 'all movement is poisonous': Shiva on page 630 D. |
| Faith | 1974 | 630 D | Chitta can give one 'Bhawana', a state of pure emotion, one aspect of which is faith. |
| Faith | 1974 | 653 D | One thing that never needs to be changed is faith in Param-Atman. |
| Faith | 1974 | 654 D | Faith is most important thing - faith in the unchanging Absolute, and faith in the meditation. |
| Faith | 1974 | 671 D | Poem of Tulsi Das - 'unshakeable faith in and devotion to Param-Atman'. |
| Faith | 1977 | 801 | Disbelief, blind belief and surrender. |
| Faith | 1978 | 859 | Faith of disciple determines how much force goes into him at initiation. |
| Faith | 1978 | 860 | Three levels - Sattvic, Rajasic and Tamasic. |
| Faith | 1978 | 861 | Relation between faith and Buddhi under the influence of different Gunas. |
| Faith | 1979 | 877 | By faith we develop knowledge. |
| Faith | 1979 | 878 | Confidence and faith is another method of realisation. |
| False 'I' | 1962 | 73 D | By meditation when we rise on the ladder we do away with our False 'I's and establish the Real I. |
| False 'I' | 1962 | 74 D | False 'I' is seeing oneself as separate. False I's and secretiveness create accidents, wrongs and limitations. |
| False 'I' | 1962 | 74 D | How to get rid of False 'I' - look towards Real 'I'. See story of 'No audience today' on page 74 D. |
| False 'I' | 1962 | 75 D | False 'I' and malicious talk. See story of Scorpion and tortoise on page 75 D. |
| False 'I' | 1970 | 410-411 D | Difference between true Ahankar and false Ahankar (feeling of 'I'). Example of Ganges and purity of water. |
| Family | 1972 | 586 D | D.S. There can be no conflict between serving one's family and putting spiritual things first. Serving the family is serving God. See story of God is Nowhere on page 586 D. |
| Fate | 1962 | 65-66 D | Law of fate in Western system - H.H. describes the equivalent concept in his system. |
| Fate | 1964 | 119 D | Fate of three kinds. It has no relation to spiritual world once it has introduced you to that world. |
| Fate | 1964 | 186 D | You can transform fate with good thoughts, good talks, good actions and good company. Present is the only time to change one's fate. |
| Fate | 1965 | 254 D | Fate and the zodiac. |
| Fatigue | 1964 | 109 D | In meditation rest in Sattva brings in relaxation, relieves tension or fatigue and helps re-create peace and bliss. |
| Fatigue | 1970 | 433-434 D | Remedies for spiritual exhaustion are meditation and praising the Lord. |
| Fatigue | 1970 | 451 D | Physical and mental tiredness can be removed by serving the Absolute and not the individual. |
| Fatigue | See also: Exhaustion | ||
| Fear | 1962 | 34 D | R.'s fear of harming the Work. |
| Fear | 1964 | 189 D | We are frightened only because we think we are limited. Fear and distractions are limiting forces. |
| Fear | 1972 | 529 D | Mela talk on fear of death. |
| Fear | 1972 | 530 D | We fear death because we have forgotten ourselves. |
| Fear | 1976 | 762 | No reason to fear annihilation when going into Samadhi. |
| Fear | 1977 | 808 | Performing good deeds for fear of the Absolute. See story of Lion, goat and armed lion tamer on page 808. |
| Fear | 1989 | 1053 | Fear is caused by darkness or ignorance. With knowledge there is no fear. Light and darkness can be seen as divine and worldly aspects of creation, balancing each other. |
| Feelings | 1962 | 35 D | Feelings and thoughts and actions in relation to sleep and dreams. |
| Feminine | See: Masculine and feminine | ||
| Field | 1970 | 411 D | Explanation of 'knowing the end of the field' in Shrimad Bhagavatam. |
| Fire | 1972 | 538 D | Fire is a great purifier. Fire of true knowledge burns illusion - orange/yellow colour symbolises purifying effect on mind and is colour worn by Lord Vishnu. |
| Flattery | 1972 | 541 D | Warning against flattery. See story of Alesko and the turtles on page 541 D. |
| Food | 1964 | 122 D | Food and alcohol in relation to meditation - nothing bad if taken in measure. |
| Food | 1964 | 122-123 D | Three types of food and three types of influence. Coarse, fine, subtle. |
| Food | 1964 | 135 D | Eating meat: each man decides. Meat creates Tamas. |
| Food | 1964 | 178 D | Master feeds only on Bliss. Servants need food - fresh air, natural noise, clean and pure smell and natural sights. |
| Food | 1964 | 180 D | Master feeds only on bliss. Servants need food - fresh air, natural noise, clean and pure smell and natural sights. |
| Food | 1964 | 200 D | There are two types of foods: food which we put into our body and food which, coming into the mind, is transformed into subtle forms. |
| Food | 1972 | 543 D | Body's nourishment is food and water, Manas' is holy intention, Buddhi's is thought and Atman's is joy. |
| Food | 1975 | 699 D | H.H. discusses three kinds of food in relation to the three Gunas. |
| Food | 1979 | 917-918 | Three kinds - physical, subtle and causal. |
| Food | 1979 | 918 | Process of digestion and transformation of food. |
| Food diagram | 1964 | 152 D | R. describes his experiences of meditation as being like the Food Diagram - two stages in the meditation, two shocks. |
| Force | 1965 | 229 D | Fine energy (refined force) comes from Atman. See unity of force with its source. |
| Forces | See: Three forces | ||
| Forehead | 1965 | 244 D | Three forces of mantra rise and unite in forehead. |
| Forgetting | 1965 | 248 D | Forgetting true knowledge. |
| Forgetting | 1972 | 530 D | We fear death because we have forgotten ourselves. |
| Forgetting | 1974 | 636 D | A. asks re forgetting. H.H.: natural to forget and also natural to remember. It is the nature of Rajas that one will forget during an active day. |
| Forgetting | 1975 | 725 D | God is available to everyone everywhere but people feel separated because they have forgotten the union. |
| Forgetting | 1976 | 752 | When we know the direction, it's not so hard to keep on track. The problem comes when we have lost direction. See story of Remembering the name of father-in-law's place on page 752. |
| Forgetting | 1977 | 796 | Forgetting is like the darkness between lamp-posts. See story of Lamp-posts light the way (2) on page 796. |
| Forgetting | 1979 | 881 | Forgetting between two rememberings is not important. See story of Lamp-posts light the way (1) on page 881. |
| Forms | See: Names and forms | ||
| Forms of creation | 1970 | 454 D | When the Self pronounces a mantra, this 'Word' manifests in all the glorious forms of creation. |
| Fountain of knowledge | 1964 | 149 D | Reached only after Self-realisation but shower of knowledge available to those who are open to it. |
| Four bodies | 1962 | 54-55 D | Four bodies: Physical, Subtle, Causal and Divine or Eternal. |
| Four rooms | 1965 | 231-233 D | R. explains diagram of four rooms - cart, horse, driver and symbol - in terms of body, Manas, Buddhi and Atman. |
| Four Ways | 1962 | 50 D | The fourth system of Self-realisation is through meditation. |
| Four Ways | 1962 | 63 D | Confirmation of common origin of H.H.'s and Ouspensky's systems. |
| Four Ways | 1964 | 113 D | Meditation is common to all four Ways: The Way of Knowledge, The Way of Devotion, The Way of Yoga, and The Way of Action. |
| Fourth room | 1962 | 54 D | The Divine body takes rest in the Fourth Room. |
| Fourth Way | 1961 | 7 D | R. recognises School of Fourth Way. |
| Fourth Way | 1964 | 114 D | Knowledge is essential on Fourth Way. But worldly knowledge brings pain and pleasure. |
| Fourth Way | 1964 | 127-128 D | School of Fourth Way is for Self-realisation and certain outside activities. Leader and School. |
| Fourth Way | 1964 | 143 D | Do not attempt direct release of energy stored in sex centre on Fourth Way |
| Fragments | 1961 | 7 D | Fragments of unknown system - R.'s conversation with Maharishi |
| Fragments | 1979 | 906 | Reference to Ouspensky's 'In Search of the Miraculous' - confirmation of unity of system. |
| Freedom | 1965 | 242 D | Two types of freedom - transitory and absolute. |
| Freedom | 1965 | 270 D | Vaishnan system - five states of freedom. |
| Freedom | 1975 | 716-717 D | Complexity caused by freedom which has been given to Vyashti. |
| Freedom | 1977 | 811 | Example of different levels of worker in a factory given different amounts of freedom according to their talents. Owner can decide everything. |
| Freedom | 1980 | 980 | Only man who is free can free others. But a man who is free never considers anybody bound. Bondage is only ignorance. See story of Way of catching monkeys using a pot on pages 980-981. |
| Freedom | 1989 | 1052 | Freedom in Sanskrit is Swatantra - Self and discipline. Paratantra is the opposite of Swatantra - dependence, when one doesn't have control of actions. |
| Freedom | 1989 | 1054 | If perfection could be frozen in time, everyone's freedom would be removed. |
| Freeman, Laurence | 1989 | 1050 | Re Christian meditation, mixing two systems creates difficulties later on. It is better to preserve one system in its purity. |
| Friction | See: Conflict | ||
| Frog | 1982 | 987 | Mandukya Upanishad means 'frog'. Three jumps to stillness of body, eyes and mind in meditation, like frog reaching cool water from hot sun. |
| Full Realisation | 1964 | 128 D | Self-realisation is not the end of the Way. Full realisation follows. |
| Future | 1979 | 906 | Future of School - fundamental principles never change. |