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

  1. Volume 2 Chapter 17

    Context in the novel: 
    Mrs. Bennet is frustrated about losing Bingley and Collins
    Principles: 
    He used my daughter very ill – They will take care not to outrun their income. – Elizabeth about Charlotte
    Topics discussed: 
    Subtle knowledge, ill-usage, inner-outer correspondence, knowledge from History & Literature, justice and the victim, evolution of social values, spoken and unspoken values, rising from Vital to Mental, culture
    Questions raised: 

    When mind is developed, we lose subtle vision. So isn’t that a disadvantage of the mind developing?
    Why do all the Bennet girls receive proposals when they are away from the parents?
    Cant Wickham raise the question, why cant I marry Georgiana whereas my son can at marry someone from a higher class in his time? What enables a soul to come under a particular justice system? Why does the soul take birth in a particular era?
    Society changes, there can never be the best. So how can we say the artist discards all paintings till he paints the best? How can anything be called the best, when values and society are always changing?

  2. Volume 2 Chapter 17

    Context in the novel: 
    Jane still feels for Bingley, Mrs. Bennet discusses the matter with Elizabeth
    Principles: 
    Bingley may tell in a much more agreeable manner – I am determined to speak of it to no one – Mrs. Bennet
    Topics discussed: 
    Rationality, mind, life, spirit, not exercising liberty of initiative, thought or wish, ego, silent will, goodwill, receptivity, romance, absence of self-awareness, urge
    Questions raised: 

    The warmth of first attachment gives Man ideas that are unreal. Why should it be so?
    In the case of romance, it opens only once, to the right person. How can a system be useful in such a case, when inner and outer realities are to be considered? How can the man know whether his heart has opened or not, using a system?
    Like the career, one can practice his ideas only one or a few times. What does that mean?
    Seeking divorce, one goes down from the only experience to the inability to gain experience even in that one experience. Does that mean divorce is wrong?
    Why is similarity in taste believed to be a guarantee for marital happiness?

  3. Volume 2 Chapter 17

    Context in the novel: 
    Jane and Elizabeth decide not to expose Wickham
    Principles: 
    Every particular relating to his sister should be kept as much as possible to her – That very improbable event should ever take place
    Topics discussed: 
    Prayer vs. Surrender, keeping and breaking a promise, power of imagination, real remedy to the problem, helping evil, language, listening, time, memory, organization of cultural sensitivity, to become conscious of supermind
    Questions raised: 

    When you desperately want something, when you cannot give up the preference of one possibility over another, how can he get himself to the point where he can say and mean "Let thy will be done"?
    Until we reach the subliminal, doesn’t memory have a role to play?
    If memory is to be got rid of, is not experience a form of memory?
    What is remembering Mother?

  4. Volume 2 Chapter 17

    Context in the novel: 
    Jane and Elizabeth discuss what to do with their knowledge about Wickham
    Principles: 
    Lizzy, when you first read the letter you could not have treated it as you do now – Mr. Darcy has not authorized me to make the information public
    Topics discussed: 
    Attitude, sharing sorrow, collective existence, news, life compelling us, occasion, karma
    Questions raised: 

    What is the origin of an attitude, does it come from a thought?
    We get many psychological traits from our parents, by birth. Do our attitudes come from our parents too?
    When happiness is shared, why does it increase, while sharing sorrow halves it?
    Does it depend on whom we share our sorrow with that determines whether it halves or doubles?
    Why do some people not feel like praying at all?

  5. Volume 2 Chapter 17

    Context in the novel: 
    Jane and Elizabeth discuss Darcy and Wickham
    Principles: 
    Having to relate such a thing about his sister – It is such a spur to one’s genius, such an opening for wit to have dislike of that kind
    Topics discussed: 
    Taking life for granted, pity, sympathy, compassion and grace, form dominating the content, manners, appearance, love, possessiveness, intensity, energy that comes from dislike, genius
    Questions raised: 

    Why do things go wrong when we take anything for granted?
    Do we have to give importance to whatever meager things we have, in order to get new things?
    What exactly are pity, sympathy, compassion and grace, why do they each have their own consequence?
    How to get rid of possessiveness?
    If we are possessive, are we weak, vulnerable at those points?
    What does it show about us if we have the least tolerance?
    Are the experiences the soul gets predetermined, or does the soul determine what it gets?
    When the soul is between births, is it conscious enough to choose what it wants?
    The soul goes to a psychic world and chooses what it wants. Then why does it come back from there? But it seems like a swimmer is weighed down with a heavy coat and forced to swim.
    After reaching the supramental plane, do we experience joy?
    Why should I be in this plane at all, why not choose another plane where there is no ego?

  6. Volume 2 Chapter 17

    Context in the novel: 
    Jane is shocked to hear about Wickham’s past
    Principles: 
    Of late it has been shifting pretty much – Wickham so bad. It is almost past belief
    Topics discussed: 
    Conscious force, readiness to believe something bad, mind, justifying our position, ignorance, vital, mental and spiritual, smile, opposition, power of the purity of woman
    Questions raised: 

    Do we get bad news because we want it?
    Do we want the bad news and problems subconsciously or do we even want them consciously?
    Why do all Bennet girls end up believing they have lost the man they love, before they finally marry them?
    Isn’t Elizabeth like her mother in swaying from one side to the other suddenly? Her mother changes her mind about Wickham, just like Elizabeth.
    Are both Jane and Elizabeth ignorant? They both believe what they are told.
    When we aren’t assertive and believe what we are told out of prejudice, from what plane are we acting?
    After Elizabeth learnt the truth, in what plane is she then?

  7. Volume 2 Chapter 17

    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth tells Jane about Darcy’s proposal and letter
    Principles: 
    Elizabeth’s impatience to acquaint Jane could no longer be postponed – Sought to clear the one, without involving the other
    Topics discussed: 
    Assumption and taking for granted, impatience, human choice, laws of the cosmos, energy, stupidity, surprise, high principle working in a low atmosphere, man is in love with the enemy
    Questions raised: 

    Why does assuming and taking for granted postpone or cancel accomplishment?
    Life brings a spouse to one for one's growth. When we make a decision making tool so we can select the best person, are we reducing the advantage we will have if we don’t use the tool?
    Soul accumulates knowledge through experience. Will the Decision Making Tool give it that knowledge, so it doesn’t have to have that experience?
    What is it in Mrs. Bennet that finally gets three daughters married? Her methods were totally wrong. Does just energy make everything work?
    Mrs. Bennet's initiatives postpone other things, but it cancels the possibility of Mary's marriage to Collins. Why does Mary alone lose out permanently whereas the others are only temporarily troubled?
    Jane doesn’t think ill of anyone, isn’t that a good, supramental value?

  8. Volume 2 Chapter 16

    Context in the novel: 
    Lydia wants to go to Brighton
    Principles: 
    She had not been home for many hours, before she found out the Brighton scheme – Her mother, often disheartened, was never despaired of succeeding at last
    Topics discussed: 
    Attention to illness, recognizing an opportunity, attitudes and reaction, determine, another's problem, the news that comes, each act branches off and has multiple consequences, evolving consciousness, individual decisions carry the determinism of the collective, breaking free of the influence of society, skill, thought, attitude, habit, rising to mind
    Questions raised: 

    Attention and interest can cure an illness or increase it. It depends on the quality of the interest. So what determines whether the interest makes things better or worse?
    Darcy paid for Wickham and Lydia's marriage, subconsciously he knows it might be an opportunity to help Elizabeth. We receive opportunities disguised as problems. How do we know which opportunity is hidden in something that comes to us?
    When a problem has nothing to do with us, can our reaction change that situation?
    Just when we take a decision not do something, we are forced to do it more. Why is that?
    Why is it that always someone is at the top and some who are disadvantaged? Why is there not equality?
    Isn’t Lady Catherine just being guarded and trying to save her daughter from someone like Wickham?
    The atmosphere and the collective influences what choice we make, decision we take. How to break free of the society's influence?
    If every individual decision is the decision of the collective, is Lydia's elopement a decision of the collective?

  9. Volume 2 Chapter 16

    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth is happy that the militia is set to leave Meryton
    Principles: 
    I should infinitely prefer a book – Once gone there could be nothing more to plague her on that account
    Topics discussed: 
    Merit and appreciation, equilibrium of forces and energies, addressing the real source of a problem, Indian freedom, a higher faculty is needed for progress, knowledge, energy required to solve big and small, problems, token act
    Questions raised: 

    What do we mean by saying a problem is completely dissolved?  When the man rises to the next level, doesnt the problem arise again?
    The essence of the ant hill and the solar system is the same. Is this the principle of the token act?
    Is the energy required to solve a small problem less than the energy required to solve a bigger problem?

  10. Volume 2 Chapter 16

    Context in the novel: 
    All the Bennet girls are back home again
    Principles: 
    Lydia in a voice louder than any other person – I should infinitely prefer a book
    Topics discussed: 
    Speech and spiritual opening, India and America, society and its ideals, opposition, non violence, moving from unconscious coarseness to high culture
    Questions raised: 

    How to develop the consciousness and understand this, which is so different from what we've traditionally believed in?
    When an Indian goes to America, what happens when his spiritual light meets the freedom in America?
    Joint families are going away in urban India. Does that mean people are becoming less emotional?
    Is corruption accepted because society is so low?
    At the deepest level you become the thing that you oppose. What about Gandhiji and Martin Luther King who opposed violence?
    Isnt violence a lower form than non violence?
    Why is Mary without any energy?
    The artificial reason is there is a fixed law of evasion which evades a certain set of people. What does that mean?

  11. Volume 2 Chapter 16

    Context in the novel: 
    The Bennet girls and Maria reach Longbourn
    Principles: 
    Cannot imagine how well he looked – Lady Lucas inquiring across the table about poultry
    Topics discussed: 
    Energy, imitation, moving away from a problem and solving it, shedding the vital attachment, imparting values, summary of Life Divine, attitude determines the result
    Questions raised: 

    How can I get more energy?
    Which are the ways in which we dissipate energy?
    How can one consciously let go of what the vital is attached to?
    If what the parent does decides what the child does, till when is the parent responsible for how the child is? Like in the parent-child relationship, is it similar between spouses too, will a change in one have an effect in the spouse?
    Is there a (subliminal) reason why I am with my spouse?

  12. Volume 2 Chapter 16

    Context in the novel: 
    The Bennet girls and Maria dine at the inn and return to Longbourn
    Principles: 
    As soon as all ate and the elder ones paid – Harriet was ill
    Topics discussed: 
    Non reaction, energy, hierarchy, creation, mind and speech, non action is the most desirable action, Sri Aurobindo's speech, non existence, ego, preoccupation, equilibrium
    Questions raised: 

    Which acts generate energy, does speaking generate energy? Do we create energy, do we release energy?
    What is the secret of creation?
    Is it possible to give proper direction to our mind by giving proper words all the time?
    Does illness always indicate ill luck to come?

  13. Volume 2 Chapter 16

    Context in the novel: 
    Lydia announces that Wickham is not to marry Mary King
    Principles: 
    She is a great fool for going away, if she liked him – The coarseness was little other her own breast had formerly harboured
    Topics discussed: 
    A lady behaves likes a lady when she is treated by all as a lady, spiritual and social evolution, integration, supramental method, taking initiative, marriage, culture, prose and poetry, sarcasm
    Questions raised: 

    When we are to start on a project, we need to allot work to people and select milestones. How can it be done in the supramental way?
    I am about to start a project, and I need people. Should I concentrate the need for people and wait for life to respond, or exhaust my effort for getting people?

  14. Volume 2 Chapter 16

    Context in the novel: 
    Kitty and Lydia receive Jane, Elizabeth and Maria at an inn on their way back to Longbourn
    Principles: 
    I have some news for you – Lydia – Mary King is safe from a connection imprudent as to fortune
    Topics discussed: 
    Subconscious knowledge and speaking, paying attention to a problem, refusal, subtle indications, rasi, one man's change can change the world, movement from falsehood to truth
  15. Volume 2 Chapter 15

    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth and Maria leave Hunsford
    Principles: 
    She was not sorry for her recital to be interrupted by the arrival of Charlotte – How much I shall have to conceal
    Topics discussed: 
    Seven ignorances, related acts: Lydia's trip to Brighton and Elizabeth's trip to Derbyshire, events respond to thoughts, egoistic point of view, those who aspire for a higher level outdo those at the higher level, time, ever present, interest, energy, being, consciousness, organization, speech, civilization, non-egoistic love
  16. Volume 2 Chapter 15

    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth feels sorry for Charlotte
    Principles: 
    You may carry a very favourable report of us into Hertfordshire – Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all her dependent concerns had not lost their charms yet
    Topics discussed: 
    Energy and form, sensing another person's character, reverse pride, characteristics and transformation, complementarity and romance, subconscious intention
  17. Volume 2 Chapter 15

    Context in the novel: 
    Collins bids farewell to Elizabeth
    Principles: 
    She had spent six weeks with great enjoyment – Tried to unite civility with truth
    Topics discussed: 
    Perfection, subconscious indication, which is the determinant, power of society, values, everyone has the potential to rise, 9 levels
  18. Volume 2 Chapter 15

    Context in the novel: 
    Collins bids farewell to Elizabeth
    Principles: 
    Collins took the opportunity at the breakfast table – Elizabeth was eager with thanks and assurances of happiness
    Topics discussed: 
    Bingley's priorities, Collins and Charlotte make no progress, man has infinite capacity, Charlotte's social rise, shifting our reliance to the Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara, inconscient and superconscient, moving out of ego
  19. Volume 2 Chapter 14

    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth’s last visit to Rosings Park
    Principles: 
    Maria thought herself obliged to undo all the work of the morning and pack her trunk afresh – Lady Catherine and Lady Anne condescended to take leave of them both
    Topics discussed: 
    Consciousness is power, The Count of Monte Cristo, spirit and matter, condescension, swabhava, swarupa, circumconscient
  20. Volume 2 Chapter 14

    Context in the novel: 
    Elizabeth sees that Bingley is not to be blamed
    Principles: 
    His affection was proved to be sincere – Family and Wickham robbed her irresistible cheerfulness
    Topics discussed: 
    Importance of the motive of the act, seeing oneself as others see us, harshness is sometimes needed to accomplish, outgrowing those that hold one back, family & organization
    Questions raised: 

    Why does excess caution result in a loss?



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