Ananda Marga Elementary Philosophy is a short book of nine questions by Reverend Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ji. It is the plain entrance to the philosophy, written so a reader can begin here before the longer series on ideology and way of life. The first question asks what dharma is. He treats a human being as someone who can tell good from harm, and as someone who will look for a way out of sorrow. The second question asks what the Cosmic Entity is. The third asks what this world is.
The fourth question turns inward and asks who a person is, and what a person is. The fifth asks what relation a person has with the universe and with that Cosmic Entity. The sixth asks how human beings should live in this world. In that chapter the aim of creation is the liberation of each unit being. Chasing wealth and position, he teaches, leaves the search for happiness unfinished. The seventh question names the aim of humanity in the same direction, with the unit consciousness moving toward the Supreme.
The eighth question asks why intuitional practice is necessary, because a philosophy that stays in talk leaves the path unfinished. The ninth asks why people are afraid of that practice. The book is therefore a sequence. It starts from dharma, passes through the world and the self, and ends at the practice. Readers at the centres can begin with these nine questions before they open the longer discourses. The practice itself is still given in person by a qualified Acharya. The nine questions are the map, and the teacher walks the person across it.