_Professor Carse:_ Now, when you teach students how to meditate, what are some of the specific instructions you give them?

Sri Chinmoy: I tell them to pray soulfully and meditate devotedly. Now, the basic rule is very simple. I ask them to make their minds calm and quiet so that divine thoughts, divine will, can operate inside them most freely. If their minds are haunted by doubts, fears, worries and anxieties, then they will not be able to meditate soulfully. So, in order to do proper meditation, I ask them to empty their mind first.

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Canvas of Time, Madal Bal, Czech Republic, 2019
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