A Treatise on Yoga-1000 Questions Answered in Dialogue Form

The idea of this book began in 1930. While I was lecturing in the hall and in the classroom, both members and the public would put questions to me about the soul, mind, etc. During my travels from coast to coast, crossing sixteen times, stopping in most large cities, I heard these questions again

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and again-how can one have self-realization; how to understand that this world is not real, although it seems real. Then I thought of a small book which I used to read when a boy. But I could not obtain that book so I began to write from memory, the story of Gorakh Nath and Mashendra (Matsyendra) Nath-their inquiry into the wisdom of the self. About ten pages of this book was as much as I could remember. They were published in India's Message.

This book contains about a thousand questions and answers. They will satisfy even the curiosity seekers. In all the questions and answers I have dealt from the Yogic point of view for the benefit of my class members as well as other truth seekers who want to find the cause and effect in seeking reality in unreality.

Contents

Introduction
Relative to atmic inquiry a dialogue revealing the self
Chapter I Discourse between King Yudhishthira and the snake
Chapter II The mystic pool
Chapter III Discourse between King Yudhishthira and Bhishma regarding virtue, wealth and pleasure, the overcoming of all difficulties, the thirteen forms of truth and vice
Chapter IV A dialogue-what is god?
Chapter V The path and power of yogis
Chapter VI Yoga for all-The key to mastery
Chapter VII Divine service in our home for family and guests
Excerpts from Japji and Asa Di Var
Namdev's hymns
Hymns from the Guru Garanth Sahib
Hymns of Kabir
Hymns of Jaidev
Hymns of Farid

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