Chapter One On the Kundalini Shakti. Chapter Two More on Raja Yoga. Chapter Three Guru Kripa Yoga

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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor s Introduction to Question and Answers with Swami i-ii Chapter One On the Kundalini Shakti Kundalini and its role in spiritual evolution [Talk given at Babaji s Parliament of World Religions and Yoga, December 19, 1992] 1-6 Kundalini Shakti: its role in meditation and in life 6-8 Types of breathing meditations 8-10 Chapter Two More on Raja Yoga Foundations of concentration Stages of concentration Integration centers The seven higher octaves of consciousness Chapter Three Guru Kripa Yoga On the purpose of life The seven purposes of man 21 On Divine Will On Alaya 23 Nesting of the Primal Rays What is Initiation? Criteria for bestowing Initiation 27-28

2 QUESTION AND ANSWERS WITH SWAMI Chapter Four Jnana Yoga On intuition Trans-mental experience Effect of Ray type on perception On the qualities of the Soul Love, wisdom, power, and life: the Soul s quaternity of expression Understanding the four principles: More on Correspondences A study of the four principles Understanding the Four Quadrants Chapter Five Dharma Values and Dharma Confrontation with Dharma The mandala of relationship Levels of functioning in Dharma Yoga Chapter Six - Kriya Yoga and transformational methods Speeding up spiritual evolution A treatise on spiritual mathematics: concerning transformational methods On Kriya Yoga as a transformational method in the Cosmic Sphere The Revelation of Swami Kriya 70 A comparison of Kriya Yoga and Lhama Yoga in the First Planetary Initiation 61-72

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Seven Caring for the spiritual heart On withdrawal (Pratyahara) Spiritual devotion Chapter Eight Discipleship and Mastery Stages of human and transpersonal growth: development and mastery Ways people awaken Adept, Initiate, and unawakened man On the stages of discipleship Discipleship in the Mudrashram tradition On becoming a Master 93 Multiplane Mastery: how it works The Higher Work: the seven Masteries Empowerment, Grace, and Service 98 Chapter Nine The Mudrashram Tradition Ascending models of consciousness: discovering the Mudrashram realizations Levels of participation in meditation The seven paths of the Yoga of the Seven Mudras The Mudrashram symbol explained Techniques of Integral meditation The lineage

4 QUESTION AND ANSWERS WITH SWAMI Chapter Ten Attunement and Spiritual Ministry Seven aspects of spiritual ministry Seven actions of prayer The actuality of Grace Other varieties of attunement Chapter Eleven Lifestyle, Religion, and Spirituality Renunciation in meditation and yogic lifestyle Seclusion in spiritual life The path of relationship versus renunciation On tolerance Understanding the statements of Jesus and other Western Adepts The three translating agents 133 The Continuum: A unity in diversity Religion, karma, and true spirituality On sacred rituals On irrationality in religion Real Rapture versus fantasy Rapture The Gifts of the Spirit revisited Levels of prayer and meditation The Prophet Excommunication The inner and outer way Examination of factors in a hypothetical spiritual lifestyle

5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Twelve the Human Experience The spectrum of feeling good The seven fulfillments On dreams On investments The greatest of treasures Destructive identification On carnal will Demons Pain, suffering, and Eternal life Overcoming the fear of death On death and dying The seven matrices of life and consciousness 186 Chapter Thirteen Karma and Destiny The paths of destiny Karma in manifestation 190 Lifting karma Glossary A Glossary for the study of Initiate s Library volumes

6 QUESTION AND ANSWERS WITH SWAMI Dedications This volume is dedicated to those sincere Mudrashram students who wish to sit at the feet of Swami Charan Das Paramahansa, and hear his inspired discourses on a variety of topics that have relevance for the aspirant and the disciple. Acknowledgements We wish to thank Andrew N. Greb, Renate Bell, and Patrice Marquez for their assistance in typesetting the original manuscript, and its revised copy. We wish to thank our early students from 1983 to 1993 for many of their questions, which I then posed to Swami for his elucidation.