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- Joel Martin: In your writings you talk about reconciling the inner world of silence and the outer life of action. Something that troubles me is the idea of putting your ideas and theories into practice in our day to day lives.
- When we pray and meditate, we develop or acquire peace of mind, let us say. … That we do on the strength of our prayer and meditation. … Early in the morning we pray and meditate to acquire some inner wealth: peace, joy and bliss. … Perhaps they did not meditate or pray, and they are totally lost in the hustle and bustle of life. … The inner life we practise through our prayer and meditation, and the outer life we practise through...
- Question: When I am meditating, I can see the reality. … But when I open my eyes and stop meditating, how can I keep this reality?
- Sri Chinmoy: First we have to make a distinction about the reality that you see in your meditation. … If you truly feel real Reality just once in your meditation, then you will never lose it. … If one moment you are experiencing real Reality in your meditation and the next moment you have to run … We not only feel it in our meditation, but we are the embodiment of this real Reality. … So when you open your eyes and stop meditating, naturally you cannot keep what you have seen....
- If you feel your heart-breath[^41]
- fold your hands and touch your heart, if you feel your heart-breath, you will do infinitely better meditation … Then you will do the best meditation. … If your folded hands touch your chest, you will do far better meditation. … When we were meditating inside the meditation hall at the Ashram, we did it. … When people came to the meditation hall, all their aspiration they brought forward in this way....
- Interview
- He is the founder and director of the meditation group at the United Nations in New York and an exponent … He is an accomplished composer and performer of music for meditation. … And Sri Chinmoy is someone who knows a great deal about meditation — the benefits of meditation and the … We are going to be talking primarily about meditation, and along with that we are going to be discovering … There I practised prayer and meditation for twenty years, and also I gave much importance to physical...
- Question: If we have a job that involves a lot of thinking and activity, how can we maintain any sense of spirituality or light?
- hustle and bustle of life, before you go to your office, you are given ample opportunity by God to meditate … When you meditate early in the morning, you gain something from God: Peace, Light and Bliss. … Then, when you go to your office after you have meditated early in the morning, inside your heart you … In the inner life your work is your meditation. … When you pray and meditate you get your salary, which is light....
- Question: In meditation, is it more important to aspire upwards or to become receptive?
- Most of the time, it is the prayer aspect hidden in our meditation that takes us up. … Meditation, however, is expansion. Meditation receives from above. … True, God's Consciousness is everywhere, but when we meditate we feel that God's Consciousness is descending … So when we meditate, if we are going up we have to see if there is a subtle prayer inside our meditation...
- Question: Could you please discuss how contemplation differs from meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you meditate on a specific divine quality, such as Light, Beauty, Peace, or Bliss in … You are meditating on Peace, Light or Bliss while the express train is constantly moving. … You are envisioning a goal and meditation takes you there. In contemplation it is not like that. … But in your highest meditation there is a dynamic movement. … This is the main difference between contemplation and meditation....
- Question: What do you mean by highest meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: The highest meditation is when you do not have any thought at all. … Now, while we are meditating, we are victims to many thoughts, undivine thoughts, ugly thoughts, bad … Then we may do a kind of meditation where we get fairly good thoughts, divine thoughts, fulfilling thoughts … But when we do the highest meditation, at that time it is not like that. … So, in the highest meditation, reality and vision go together....
- Question: But you are not Infinite.
- If you meditate with me, I can penetrate into you and see the infinite Consciousness that is within you … By the same token, if he does not meditate, how can he enter into that inner world? … But if you enter into meditation you will see another world that is much bigger. … A spiritual person practises concentration and meditation because to him this world is not enough. … satisfied, we invite him to come and meditate with us, so that he can see that other worlds exist....
- Question: You say we should meditate in the heart, but I find it easier to meditate in the mind.
- Sri Chinmoy: If you find it easier in the mind, then meditate in the mind. … , for one minute you may meditate very powerfully. … If you meditate here [in the heart] a day will come when you start getting satisfaction. … If you meditate in the heart, you are meditating where the soul is. … Meditation in the mind can give it to you. But you can get more if you meditate in the heart....
- Preparing to meditate
- — a sacred place which you use only for meditation.
Before beginning to meditate, it is helpful if you can take a shower or proper bath.
It is the same with using candles during meditation. … So the lotus position is not at all necessary for proper meditation. … Many people meditate very well while they are seated in a chair....
- The Master's inner beings
- When a seeker meditates for ten minutes in earthly time, he feels that he has meditated for ten hours … When I meditate in the morning on my disciples, I meditate for two or three minutes on each disciple, … But isn't this the time you meditate on all your disciples?"
The Master explained, "When I meditate, at that time I do things consciously, but when I am not meditating
"When you meditate on our heart, Master, or your inner beings come and meditate on us, how can we...
- Each Prayer
- Each prayer heralds A new day of hope. Each meditation heralds A new day of promise. Each realisation heralds A new life of the Supreme.
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- When I am in my highest meditation, I clearly see and enjoy The beauty and divinity of my soul Inside My thousand-petalled lotus-crown.
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- My Lord Supreme, I want to please You wherever I can think of You, I can pray to You And I can meditate on You.
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- I have completely destroyed My mind’s doubt-boat To buy a faith-ship With the beauty of my prayers And The fragrance of my meditations.
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- If you sing self-givingly In the farthest corner of the world, Then somebody meditating Inside the Himalayan caves Will feel your song’s sublime divinity.
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- Every day I pray to my Lord Supreme To make my life The beauty Of a ceaseless prayer And the fragrance Of a breathless meditation.
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- When we pray and meditate Most sincerely and most powerfully, Then we feel that God is not far away — He is within our easy reach.
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- Do not fool yourself into believing
That God will come to youOn His own
Even if you do not pray and meditate.
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- We do not value Light
BecauseWe do not value meditation.
We do not value meditationBecause
We do not have inner hunger.
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- When we pray and meditate,
We are not stealing God’s Strength.We are only establishing
A free accessTo everything God has and is.
- 35. His continuous occupation
- From morning to evening
He prays. He makes God feel
Really great.
From night to morn He meditates. God makes him feel Really good.
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- When I meditate on God, God embraces me....
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- When I concentrate, God gives me His Power. When I meditate, God gives me His Light. When I contemplate, God gives me His Oneness-Delight.
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- When I meditate soulfully, I see only two things: The slow ascent Of my heart-hope And the quick descent Of my Lord’s Compassion-Eye.
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- If we pray and meditate regularly, Then, without fail, our hearts shall radiate God-Bliss, God-Light And everything that God has and God is.
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- When I do not pray and meditate, The undivine forces Force me to become friends with Gloomy thoughts and cloudy skies In my inner life.
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- Pray and meditate Again and again. Your inner sun will once more Come to the fore And illumine your unlit mind Once and for all.
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- The Supreme’s ardent Request To all His children: “Every day pray and meditate, At least to maintain your spiritual height If you cannot transcend it.”