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Question: What is the best way to be in a divine consciousness when we're working very hard?
At the end of each hour, no matter what is happening, for three minutes be alone and meditate. … If you can meditate for three minutes, then for an hour you can easily retain the peace, light and confidence … You can be inside a room or in the street, but nobody should be with you or around you when you meditate...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No.1, November 1980 — The message of Sri Chinmoy
Question: Is it possible to obtain spiritual realisation through some other process besides meditation
In the Western world, people give more importance to prayer than to meditation. … If you find it difficult to meditate, then you can pray....
From the book The doubt-world
Scene 4
(Trita is meditating by the well. The cosmic god comes to him and blesses him.)

COSMIC GOD: Trita, I am most pleased with your prayer and meditation....

From the book The heart of a holy man
I think of death
I think of death Not because I am afraid of death.

I meditate on death Not because I am afraid of death.

I love death Not because I am afraid of death.

I think of death Because Death needs my smile.

I meditate on death Because Death needs my life.

I love death Because Death at least, And none else, Acknowledges my heights.

From the book The silence of death
Is it just meditation and prayer, or is there something more?
Sri Chinmoy: We pray and meditate, plus I give short talks and answer their questions. … So we try to establish a free access to the inner world by virtue of our inner cry and our soulful meditation...
From the book Flame-Waves, part 11
Question: After I have a good meditation I lose it. What can I do to maintain my meditation?
Either you mix with unaspiring people or you don't want to preserve your meditation. … I always tell you to assimilate your meditation. Once you eat something you must assimilate it....
From the book The mind and the heart in meditation
UPI: What is it that you do at your meditation sessions?
Sri Chinmoy: We pray and meditate, plus I give short talks and answer questions. … So we try to establish a free access to the inner world by virtue of our inner cry and our soulful meditation...
From the book The inner role of the United Nations
Meditation in Zurich
In Zurich over five hundred people came to the meditation. The seekers in Zurich were so good. … am always deeply moved that when seekers in the audience in San Francisco take prasad after a public meditation...
From the book Salutations, numbers 1-4
Question: How, in practical terms, can spirituality actually be effective for change? This seems to be the most difficult challenge.
Spirituality is definitely practical; likewise, prayer and meditation are definitely practical. … For prayer and meditation to be effective, we need only one thing: the indomitable, heroic spirit that...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 6
Interviewer: I would like to know your philosophy very briefly.
I want people to pray and meditate to have a better world. … For that, we all have to pray and meditate, and we have to offer goodwill to each and every human being...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 23
Question: When did you start meditating?
At the age of twelve I started meditating consciously. … Before that, when I was six, I was meditating, but it was not so conscious....
From the book Spiritual power, occult power and will power
Should I meditate at that time?
fall asleep and undivine thoughts are not bothering you, it means God has given you an opportunity to meditate … And if you can’t meditate, then read some spiritual books....
From the book The body, humanity’s fortress
My fellow runner becomes a seeker[^8]
During our Wednesday night meditation at PS 86, I was so surprised and happy to see that this same girl … came up to meditate with the seekers...
From the book Run and become, become and run, part 20
Running or meditation?[^12]
I wanted to see if Karabi could have run that far if she had started after her six o’clock morning meditation … I wanted to catch her to see if she had missed meditation to go running....
From the book Run and become, become and run, part 13
Interviewer: Is there a difference between them?
When we pray to God, we talk to God; and when we meditate, God talks to us. … When we meditate, God talks to us and we listen to Him....
From the book My Heart's Salutation to Australia, part 2
Question: I was told you will be going to Australia next month. Why are you going there?
Sri Chinmoy: I have been invited by the disciples in four Centres of mine there to hold meditations and … last four years my disciples in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide have been inviting me to hold meditations...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-3, No. 2, 27 February 1976
When I Pray, My Lord Gives Me a Mind

When I pray, My Lord gives me a mind With open doors. When I meditate, My Lord gives me a heart Without walls.

From the book Paradise is where I bend my knees
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When I have a deep meditation, Then only can I truly know What is important to God And what is not important to God.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24
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Rest assured, The day will not arrive When God will give up on you. But you must pray and meditate And do the needful.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 28
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This morning during my meditation I had a glimpse of my soul For the first time. Never before have I seen Anything so beautiful.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 11
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The human in me Loves to dominate the world. The divine in me Loves to pray for the world And meditate on the world.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 48
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In our spiritual family,

Prayer is the little brotherAnd meditation is the elder brother.

They are very fond of each other.

From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 49
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The soul is birthless and deathless, But we must pray and meditate, To give it the service-strength To manifest God’s Will On earth.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 15
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Not only your soul But also your heart will agree With God When He tells you that you had A very powerful, significant meditation.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 15
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While you are praying, While you are meditating, You are bound to get God-Messages, Once you become totally conscious Of your inner life.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 5
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Even if your Master Is in a different world during meditation, He sees clearly the activities Of your desiring mind And your aspiring heart.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 5
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The height of your prayer And the depth of your meditation Give you the capacity to claim God Unmistakably as your own, very own.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 5
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Where is safety? Safety is in our prayer-cries. Safety is in our meditation-smiles. Safety is in our surrender-dance To God’s Will.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2
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When I pray, I sow the seeds of love and devotion In my heart-garden. When I meditate and contemplate, I reap the harvest.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
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Every day we must feed Our consciousness With our soulful prayers And prayerful meditations. Only then can we please God In His own Way.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 30
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Books found: 17

Meditation
The meditation-world
Concentration, meditation, contemplation
Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
The hour of meditation
My meditation-heart
Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
The mind and the heart in meditation
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow's Noon
Fifty-Four Morning Prayer-Cries and Morning Meditation-Smiles
My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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