The Mother's answers to questions on books by Sri Aurobindo: 'Bases of Yoga', 'Lights on Yoga' and 2 chapters of 'The Synthesis of Yoga'.
Ce volume comporte les réponses de la Mère aux questions des enfants de l’Ashram et des disciples, et ses commentaires sur trois œuvres de Sri Aurobindo : Les Bases du Yoga, Le Cycle humain et La Synthèse des Yogas ; et sur une de ses pièces de théâtre, Le Grand Secret.
This volume is made up of talks given by the Mother in 1955 to the members of her French class. Held on Wednesday evenings at the Ashram Playground, the class was composed of sadhaks of the Ashram and students of its school. The Mother usually began by reading out a passage from one of her works or a French translation of one of Sri Aurobindo’s writings. She then commented on the passage or invited questions. For most of the year she discussed two small books by Sri Aurobindo, 'Bases of Yoga' and 'Lights on Yoga', and two chapters of 'The Synthesis of Yoga'. She spoke only in French.
These talks of 1955 were spoken by the Mother in French and appear here in English translation. All of them were tape-recorded. Passages from some of the talks were published in the French original together with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from 1955 to 1960. The first five months of talks were serialised in the Bulletin from November 1978 to November 1980. In 1979 all the talks were brought out in English under the title Questions and Answers 1955 as Volume 7 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). In that volume previous Bulletin translations were slightly revised and the remaining talks translated for the first time. The present volume has the same text as the first edition of the Collected Works, apart from some minor revisions of the translation.
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