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- Question: Does one achieve divine experience through meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Through meditation we are bound to get divine experience. Meditation is the means. … If one meditates, certainly one will get divine experience. … Meditation is the only answer. Meditation is the key to enter into the divine world....
- Question: How should one meditate?
- Somebody may find it easier to meditate inside the mind; somebody else finds it very easy to meditate … inside the heart, or to meditate on a flower or a candle, or to meditate while looking at the vast sky … If you have a Master, you can meditate on your Master's picture. … Whichever form of meditation gives you utmost joy or the utmost sense of satisfaction is the best form … of meditation for you....
- Question: Do you think that meditation is the only way to reach God?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is not the only way. … Two things are of paramount importance: prayer and meditation. … But if somebody feels that meditation is more helpful, then he can reach God through his soulful meditation … Prayer and meditation — there is no other method! … Either prayer or meditation or both are necessary to reach God....
- Question: When I meditate, I lose energy and get tired. Is it because I meditate too much?
- Sri Chinmoy: No, it is not because you meditate too much. … If you are losing energy while meditating, it means that your meditation is incorrect. … If you meditate well, you will gain energy, not lose it. … But if you meditate in a wrong way, then the meditation fails its own purpose. … You are supposed to meditate on the heart or on your inner being....
- Question: What is the effect of transcendental meditation on our consciousness?
- Sri Chinmoy: Transcendental meditation is to some extent a vague term. … But from the strict spiritual point of view, “transcendental” meditation is the meditation of constant … That type of meditation is only a kind of deception. … that the Absolute Supreme is meditating in and through us, is it the real transcendental meditation. … The Supreme meditates only in His highest transcendental Way, so if He meditates in and through us, we...
- Question: What about Sunday when we have group meditation at six o'clock? … Six o'clock is not my regular meditation time.
- Sri Chinmoy: On Sunday I am responsible for those who are coming to meditate. … Many are not coming; they can meditate at their normal time. … I have inner beings and the Supreme is the witness, but people coming to meditate with me will meditate...
- Question: Do you pray sometimes?
- And also, I have no need for meditation, but I do meditate for my disciples. … After one has realised the highest Truth, one has no need to pray or meditate. … But I have a few hundred disciples, and I meditate for them as I used to meditate for myself more than … When I meditate on them, prayer is automatically there, because I am trying to help them in their spiritual … In deep meditation, prayer is present....
- Question: Does one achieve divine experiences through rigorous practice and coercion?
- Sri Chinmoy: Through meditation we are bound to get divine experiences. Meditation is the means. … If one meditates, certainly one will get divine experiences. … If one doesn’t meditate, then one will have only ordinary, human experiences. … Meditation is the only answer. Meditation has the key to enter into the divine world. … Self-discipline will gradually become spontaneous and natural; then concentration and meditation will...
- Question: What does it mean to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation means conscious self-expansion. … Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the highest Reality. … Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true Self. … It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection. … So meditation means the discovery of one's own highest transcendental Reality....
- Question: How may a disciple receive the maximum benefit during collective meditation in a group?
- Feel that you are the only person meditating and you are entirely responsible for the meditation. … Collective meditation is meditation with the feeling of inseparable oneness, absolute oneness. … Let me go home and meditate." … down and it is beneath your dignity to meditate with him. … When you start meditating collectively, if you take everyone as your own, then you will have a good meditation...
- Question: Guru, how can I improve my meditation?
- hearts that it is only meditation, soulful meditation, that will be able to give you peace of mind. … Again, you have to know that meditation will give you joy. … You will meditate most soulfully. … Just by thinking that you will improve your meditation, you will not do it. … But if you know what you can get from meditation, if you know that your meditation will give you tremendous...
- Question: What is the best way to serve the United Nations: through meditation or action?
- Meditation and action are one, provided they are done in a soulful way. … If one acts soulfully, then he is doing a really good meditation. … So, it all depends on how we meditate and how we work. … At times our mind separates action and meditation. … This soulful dedication is undoubtedly soulful meditation....
- Question: How do you combat illness when trying to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: The best thing is to cure the illness before you meditate. … But if it is impossible, then while you are meditating, please totally forget about the illness. … For a few minutes while you are meditating, just consciously forget; keep the negative force away from … At that time, the meditative power, the power of your meditation, will enter into the illness and it … When the positive force comes from your meditation, then illness, or the negative force, can be conquered...
- Question: Do you actually meditate on the weight itself before you lift it?
- Sri Chinmoy: I do not meditate on the weight before I lift. … I meditate on the Lord Supreme, especially for His Grace and Protection, but I do not meditate on the...
- Question: What are the ways of God-realisation?
- Sri Chinmoy: There are only two ways: prayer and meditation. … In meditation there are three stages: concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Aspiration houses both prayer and meditation. … manifested in two different ways — either through your most soulful prayer or through concentration, meditation...
- Question: Can you give us any suggestion as to how we can be more alert during morning meditation
- find that it is impossible to remain alert at the Centre at six am, then the best thing to do is to meditate … The traditional way of meditating is every day, early in the morning. … Morning meditation is of greatest importance. … Please meditate at home. There you can meditate while sleeping. … But if you do come, kindly come fully prepared to meditate well and to inspire others to meditate well...
- Question: What is the best way to serve the United Nations: through meditation or action?
- Sri Chinmoy: There is no basic difference between soulful action and soulful meditation. … Meditation and action are one, provided they are done in a soulful way. … If one acts soulfully, then one is doing a really good meditation. … At times our mind separates action and meditation. … What we call meditation in the morning, we call dedicated action during the day....
- Question: Can we conquer the fear of death through meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: I wish to say that through meditation we can conquer the fear of death. … When we meditate, we enter into the endless Life. … It is only by meditating and meditating that we can grow into that endless Life....
- Question: How do I begin meditation?
- If a spiritual Master gives a meditation, then that meditation is undoubtedly the best that the aspirant … The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. … Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. … Today you can try one way of meditation, then you can try another way of meditation tomorrow. … When we meditate collectively we do this kind of meditation....
- Russell Barber: Can anyone learn how to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, anyone can learn to meditate. … Meditation is not the sole monopoly of any individual....
- Interviewer: Then our traditional religions are in trouble, in your opinion.
- Traditional religions talk about prayer and we talk about meditation. Prayer and meditation....
- Question: In a complex world, how can we develop the humility, simplicity, devotion and surrender of the true Indian devotee?
- to develop these qualities is the same everywhere: through prayers, prayers and prayers and through meditation … , meditation and meditation....
- Question: Can we meditate while lying down? Is this not the best way to relax?
- Sri Chinmoy: For meditation you do have to relax. … And for a spiritual person who has meditated for many years and knows how to meditate at his command, … lying down and meditating for hours is no problem. … She did not have conscious meditation. … Meditation is very good; but this kind of meditation while lying down tends to lead towards self-deception...
- Question: When I meditate on my own, I take it as my own personal meditation. … But I was wondering whether I should come here with the idea to meditate on the United Nations for the
- Sri Chinmoy: Sometimes we meditate for ourselves, for our own benefit and sometimes we meditate on others … But we have to know that even when we are meditating on others or for others, we are actually meditating … There is no difference between our meditation when we meditate for peace, light and bliss for ourselves … and when we meditate for the soul of the United Nations to receive light, delight and harmony from the … There is no difference when we pray and meditate for others or when we pray and meditate for ourselves...
- Question: When I meditate with my heart on your picture I've been getting a headache.
- You feel you are meditating inside your heart, but you are being misguided. … Actually you are meditating in your mind, but you are not able to feel the presence of your mind. … If you really meditate on your heart you will develop the sense of identification. … Then no matter how intensely you meditate, there can be no such problem. … If you meditate in the heart, then no matter how many hours you meditate or how much Peace, Light and...
- Question: Is meditation the highest reality?
- Sri Chinmoy: Now, for a beginner-seeker meditation is the highest reality. … But when he becomes an advanced seeker, then he knows that meditation leads to the highest reality. … all the time in ignorance, who has never prayed in his whole life even for a minute when he starts meditating … , at that time his meditation is naturally the highest reality in his consciousness. … But when he has practised meditation for a couple of years, he knows that meditation itself is not the...
- Question: Please say a little more about your statement that, for the beginner, meditation seems … to be the highest reality, but when one becomes an advanced seeker one knows that meditation only leads
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is both the way and the goal. … In the beginning, meditation plays the role of a staircase. … In exactly the same way we can describe meditation. … With meditation we go up, up, and up until finally we become the meditation itself. … And this meditation embodies the universal Light, the universal Delight, God the Creator and God the...
- Question: During meditation I find I have feelings of stress in the area of the solar plexus — sometimes … Should I continue meditating?
- Sri Chinmoy: Before you meditate, you should concentrate on the compassion aspect of God, or the protection … you experience pain, it is good to invoke God’s protection-power so that you can continue with your meditation … and enjoy the bliss of your meditation. … It is helpful to meditate or concentrate for a few minutes first on protection. … Then God’s inner forces will protect you, and you can continue your regular meditation as long as you...
- Question: Sometimes when I wake up at night and I am lying awake in bed, I feel as if I am meditating
- Sri Chinmoy: Forgive me, but you have not yet developed the capacity to meditate lying down. … My meditation can be as powerful when I am lying down as when I am sitting in front of you. … But only when you are realised or on the verge of realisation can you meditate while lying in bed. … The tricky mind makes you feel that you are meditating but it is not actual meditation. … It is just a feeling of peace or quietude, but not actually meditation....
- Question: How often should we meditate?
If inspiration is there, then meditate. … Many people say that they meditate four times or six times a day. But what do they meditate on? … They meditate on their bosses or they meditate on their boyfriends or their girlfriends. … This is no meditation at all. … really worthwhile meditation....