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Audio Downloads of Daily Discussions on Karmayogi's Commentaries on Pride and Prejudice

  1. Volume 2 Chapter 19

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    2009-08-15
    Context in the novel: 
    Mr. Bennet’s marriage
    Principles: 
    Good humour which youth and beauty generally give - He was fond of the country and of books
    Topics discussed: 
    Health, imbalance, mountains, seas and spirituality, rules of life
    Questions raised: 

    Medicine extends the life span, is that a good or bad thing?
    Can we say vast seas indicate horizontal growth and high mountains indicate vertical growth?
    Could Mr.Bennet not divorce his wife?
    "Once a lover, always a lover". When some lovers marry and love seems to disappear, does it mean there was no love in the first place?
    "We have taken the story to discover Mother’s rules of life." "The mystery of life lies in the exceptions." What is the best way to understand the mysteries?
    If an employee has made a mistake, what should the manager do? Should he look within himself for the source of the error?

  2. Volume 2 Chapter 19

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    2009-08-14
    Context in the novel: 
    Mr. Bennet’s marriage
    Principles: 
    Drawing her opinion from her own family conjugal felicity and domestic comfort would not arise - Her father captivated by youth and beauty and good humour
    Topics discussed: 
    Disease, ideal and reality, supermind, thought, idea, Real Idea, marriage
    Questions raised: 

    How does disease spread?
    What does the woman seek in marriage?
    What is it that decides what the soul wants?
    Shouldn’t Wickham’s soul have aspired to become a man, a better human?

  3. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-08-07
    Context in the novel: 
    Wickham parts with Elizabeth. Lydia leaves with the militia
    Principles: 
    the sort of cautiousness you have been alluding to is merely adopted on his visits to his aunt - Advice which there was every reason to believe would be attended to
    Topics discussed: 
    Sense mind, opinion and judgment, affection, love, fear, imagination, falsehood, time and space
    Questions raised: 

    If we appreciate an employee, will it hurt the company?
    Is the consequence of silent appreciation the same as that of openly expressed appreciation?
    The positive is incomplete without its negative counterpart. In Mother, there is no failure. Does it mean a Mother's devotee cannot fully appreciate success?

  4. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-30
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth see’s through Wickham’s pleasant behavior
    Principles: 
    Her vanity gratified - On the last day Wickham dined at Longbourn
    Topics discussed: 
    Vanity, choice, love, marriage
    Questions raised: 

    Could Wickham have changed if Elizabeth had loved him?
    Do our partners stay with us across births? If not, why do they go away?
    Is the female always reborn as a female?
    "Murder at the hands of a husband or leader is pleasantly acceptable." How can that be?
    Isn’t the act of giving birth an act of high consciousness. If we are selfless with the child, will that raise our consciousness?

  5. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-29
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth see’s through Wickham’s pleasant behavior
    Principles: 
    She saw in the very gentleness which had first delighted her - While she steadily repressed it
    Topics discussed: 
    Sensation and values, simplicity, social evolution, intuition

  6. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-28
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth is to see Wickham for the last time in Meryton
    Principles: 
    Elizabeth was now to see Mr. Wickham for the last time - the agitation of former partiality entirely subsided
    Topics discussed: 
    Liking another person, values, attachment, ego state, non reaction, consecration
    Questions raised: 

    Why do we like people, why do they move away sometimes, when should we give up certain relationships?
    Till when do we need others to help us with our progress, do we ever outgrow the need for people?
    If we lose our attachments, our approach to everyone will be similar. Should we give up our attachments?
    What is wrong with supporting our parents or giving the family importance?
    How do we know we are following the right values?

  7. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-27
    Context in the novel: 
    Lydia and Mrs. Bennet look forward to the trip to Brighton
    Principles: 
    their raptures continued with little intermission to the very day of Lydia’s leaving
    Topics discussed: 
    Attitude and human choice, writing, individuality, non reaction
    Questions raised: 

    How do we find our individuality?
    When we let Mother act in our place, what exactly are we doing? What is happening then?

  8. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-26
    Context in the novel: 
    Lydia and Mrs. Bennet look forward to the trip to Brighton
    Principles: 
    Had Lydia known Elizabeth had tried to prevent her going to Brighton, what would be her sensation - They were entirely ignorant of what had passed
    Topics discussed: 
    Accepting the low, offence, evolution, demanding favors, mind

  9. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-21
    Context in the novel: 
    Lydia is set to go to Brighton
    Principles: 
    Had Lydia and her mother known her secret meeting with her father their indignation would have found expression in their united volubility - In Lydia’s imagination a visit to Brighton comprises of every possibility of earthly happiness
    Topics discussed: 
    Non reaction, initiative, goodwill and ill will, losing an object, sincerity, consecration
    Questions raised: 

    When we consecrate and meet with success, how do we know whether what we feel is joy or ego?
    What will happen when memory ceases to exist?
    How do thoughts enter us?

  10. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-19
    Context in the novel: 
    Mr. Bennet decides to allow Lydia to go, Elizabeth gives up
    Principles: 
    Colonel Forster is a sensible Man. He will keep her out of mischief – She was confident of having performed her duty and to fret over
    Topics discussed: 
    Gratitude, good will, ill will, correspondences, urge of faculty, sensitivity, chastity, knowledge, bringing up, correcting children, giving freedom, evil serves good
    Questions raised: 

    Did not Mother express personal gratitude to individuals?

  11. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-18
    Context in the novel: 
    Mr. Bennet reasons that no harm will be done in sending Lydia to Brighton
    Principles: 
    Bennet saw her whole heart was in it. Affectionately taking her hand – Colonel Forster is a sensible Man. He will keep her out of mischief
    Topics discussed: 
    Non reaction, perfection, what prevails is the human choice, everything has a role, power, authority, ego
    Questions raised: 

    If one man’s perfection can save the world, why cannot all the good (Jane and Elizabeth) change the bad (Kitty and Lydia)?

  12. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-17
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth tells Mr. Bennet that Lydia’s acts will bring disgrace to all her sisters
    Principles: 
    her sisters will be involved in the disgrace
    Topics discussed: 
    Ego, age, authority, rights mental, vital, followership, individuality, form, time, Ishwara, overmind, supermind, satchchidananda, involution, absolute, infinitesimal, Tamas, Rajas, Satvic, mind, psychic
    Questions raised: 

    For a mental man, is changing something in the subconscious easier?

  13. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-16
    Topics discussed: 
    The Life Divine, mind, supermind, soul, time, timelessness

  14. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-15
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth persists in her attempts to convince Mr. Bennet
    Principles: 
    Let me see the list of pitiful fellows kept away by Lydia’s folly – She will become the most determined flirt
    Topics discussed: 
    Moksha and spiritual growth, Sri Aurobindo's yoga, qualification for accomplishing at a higher level, method must be appropriate to what we're trying to accomplish, human choice, opposition, good and evil and the Absolute, atmosphere, purpose of understanding Pride and Prejudice, The Life Divine
    Questions raised: 

    What is doubt, what creates it, does ego create doubt?
    Explain the growth of spirit stopping at moksha.
    Traditional yoga, rishis and yogis rejected the absolute and tried to attain moksha. By Sri Aurobindo's principle, how to reach the absolute? How does living in the present help attain moksha?
    When both the good and evil are expressions of the absolute, what is the need for both in the overall plan?

  15. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-14
    Context in the novel: 
    Mr. Bennet refuses to listen to Elizabeth
    Principles: 
    He heard her attentively and then said – Mr. Bennet heard Lizzy – Such squeamish youth as cannot be connected with a little absurdity
    Topics discussed: 
    Giving advice, spirit of contradiction, ego in the mind, silent will, transformation, meanness, sarcasm, irresponsible behavior, self-righteousness
    Questions raised: 

    How can one make the subliminal conscious?
    Expressing an idea dissipates energy and prevents the idea from growing. Even if one does not express, does having the urge to express also have a similar consequence?
    During a business meeting, when someone suggests ideas that are bad for the business, what can one do?
    Should we not interfere with another person's transformation?
    How to have subtle perception of one event in relation to another?
    Atmosphere is so powerful. What should one do to stay in control, instead of letting the atmosphere control one?
    Why does Elizabeth get the sarcastic response from her father?
    What is it about Elizabeth that something keeps saving her at every point? Even Darcy never receives any help from anyone.

  16. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-13
    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth asks Mr. Bennet to stop Lydia from going to Brighton
    Principles: 
    She considered it as a death warrant to all common sense pointed – She represented to him all the improprieties of Lydia’s behaviour
    Topics discussed: 
    Physical and mental persons, energy and restraint, process of creation, Lydia's elopement, every small thing can be explained, responding to an information in a human way, organization, non-reaction
    Questions raised: 

    Why does being unconscious prevent accomplishment?
    To control my reaction, I need a lot of energy, to just keep quiet. But if I manage to stay from reacting, I release energy. So, in keeping quiet, do I release energy or use up energy?
    We are so different from each other, and we possess different attitudes to different degrees. How does education impact us? Can education make an uncultured man cultured?

  17. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-12
    Context in the novel: 
    Lydia is to go to Brighton, Kitty feels bad at being left out
    Principles: 
    The rapture of Lydia on this occasion, her adoration of Mrs. Forster, the delight of Mrs. Bennet and the mortification of Kitty are scarcely to be described – In vain Elizabeth tried to make her reasonable, Jane resigned
    Topics discussed: 
    The Secret and surrender, creation of soul, soul, psychic, absolute, manifestation, energy in the atmosphere, gloom and rapture, human initiative, energy released in society, failure is qualification to rise, age, seniority and merit, exercising restraint, non-interference, self-restraint
    Questions raised: 

    Is surrender superior to what is advocated in The Secret?
    The soul is part of the divine. Is the soul also created as a form of force by the same process as we try to practise a higher value?
    Is the individual divine the same as the psychic being?
    Explain about the psychic being
    Is the psychic a collective force?
    Is the psychic a manifestation of the soul?
    Do the psychic and soul become one at some point?
    Why is the soul manifested with one quality?
    Till what level does the absolute have control on us, in the manifestation?
    Does the soul develop and then go back to its unmanifested form?
    Is it just the joy and delight that is felt by the absolute by the manifestation?
    When one is happy, then loses that happiness and then rediscovers it, he is happier. Is the divine working like that?
     Is human initiative also needed for accomplishment then?
    What prompted Wickham to run away with Lydia?
    Externally, we expect news about us to reach others. But once he has completed the act, the act is in nature. So could Elizabeth have loved him as much if she didn’t known externally what Darcy did to Lydia?

  18. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-11
    Context in the novel: 
    Lydia is invited to Brighton by Mrs. Forster
    Principles: 
    Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them, but all the sense of pleasure was lost in the sense of shame – Out of the three months acquaintance, they had been intimate two
    Topics discussed: 
    Social life, form and energy, forming and dissolving opinion, absence of waste in nature, idealism, giving up low indulgences, Shakti, Viryam, Deiva prakriti, Shraddha, all intense aspirations are fulfilled, infinitely variable oneness
    Questions raised: 

    Society, life, existence all have invisible senses and act at once. How does society act at once?
    Why do opinions given up release energy?
    Sometimes a restraint is good, like not speaking or chastity. At times, the form that consumes energy seems to be good, but sometimes breaking a form seems to be good. What does a form, which takes up energy, achieve?
    What is idea, shedding an idea, and how does shedding an idea do good?
    If you take money power or sex and offer it to Mother, what results could occur?
    Lydia's aspiration to go to Brighton is answered. Is there no positive or negative aspiration? Is any type of aspiration fulfilled?
    If I enjoy a violent movie, does it mean I enjoy violence?

  19. Volume 2 Chapter 18

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    2009-07-10
    Context in the novel: 
    The militia is set to depart. Mrs. Bennet, Kitty and Lydia are depressed
    Principles: 
    They were abused for their insensitivity by Kitty and Lydia – I cried for two days when Col. Miller’s regiment went away
    Topics discussed: 
    All progress comes when ego is vanquished, real spiritual progress, understanding life from people's attitudes and opinions, treating another as Mother, giving complete freedom, children, attitude converts a crisis to a higher opportunity, ego that converts the bliss into woe
    Questions raised: 

    How can we have intense aspiration and also say "Let thy will be done"?
    At the Netherfield ball, Darcy is offended by Collins. So how can he visit Collins' house to meet Elizabeth?
    We see often, when others pray for us, it works for us. Is it possible that Jane fell ill because she wanted to spend time with Bingley?
    Won’t people take advantage if we take them to be Mother? How much can we put up with?
    If we offer someone money or gifts, people go on expecting from us when we may not want to give. At that time, what should we do?
    Did Wickham's manners make him Darcy's brother in law?
    Should children be raised without any kind of inputs from the parents?
    When the Bennet family talks about Lydia, criticizes and makes fun of her, don’t they give attention to her and strengthen her?
    When anyone comes to us and they have a trait, should we take it that we also have that corresponding quality?

  20. Volume 2 Chapter 17, 18

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    2009-07-09
    Context in the novel: 
    Mrs. Bennet talks about the Collinses. Kitty and Lydia feel sorry about the departure of the militia
    Principles: 
    It was a subject they could not mention before me – Elizabeth on Longbourn – They were abused for their insensitivity by Kitty and Lydia
    Topics discussed: 
    Rhythm and process, human choice, in order to make a gain, something else must be lost, energy that is released when form is destroyed, depression, energy is needed to praise another, truth and falsehood, consecration, things are neither right nor wrong, conscience
    Questions raised: 

    The entire family has progressed, the family's consciousness itself is elevated. In these circumstances, are Mary and Kitty likely to achieve higher than their circumstances?
    Among sisters, or between mother and daughter, we see varied attitudes. If Lydia wants to become Elizabeth, what will it take to bring about that change?
    What releases energy when Longbourn is lost, that Pemberley comes?
    Why does Mrs.Young help Wickham, if Darcy is a great master and Mrs.Reynolds adores him?
    Whenever a negative experience comes, should we tell ourselves it is a good thing that comes to us?
    When our conscience tells us something, how do we know whether the conscience is acting from the ego?
    Isn’t it our ego that thinks that our body organs are capable of what they do?



by Dr. Radut