The Mother's answers to questions on books by Sri Aurobindo: 'The Synthesis of Yoga' (Part I) and 'Thoughts and Glimpses' (first part).
Ce volume comporte les réponses de la Mère aux questions des enfants de l’Ashram et des disciples, et ses commentaires sur deux œuvres de Sri Aurobindo : La Synthèse des Yogas et Aperçus et Pensées.
This volume is made up of conversations of the Mother in 1956 with 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 the Ashram’s school. The Mother usually began by reading out a passage from a French translation of one of Sri Aurobindo’s writings; she then commented on it or invited questions. During this year she discussed portions of two works of Sri Aurobindo: 'The Synthesis of Yoga' (Part One) and 'Thoughts and Glimpses' (first part). She spoke only in French.
These conversations of 1956 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 with an English translation in issues of the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from 1956 to 1963. Between March 1970 and August 1974 a new translation of all the talks was serialised in the monthly journal Mother India. This translation was brought out as a book in 1973 under the title Questions and Answers 1956. The same book, with minor revisions of the translation, was published in 1978 as Volume 8 of the Collected Works of the Mother (first edition). The present volume has the same text as the first edition, apart from some minor revisions of the translation. References for the passages from Sri Aurobindo’s works are to the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL) edition. This book is Volume 8 of the Collected Works of the Mother (second edition).
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