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- A real aspirant is he, who in the sunset of his life meditates on absolute surrender to God's Will and not on God's Peace and Bliss.
- God will be yours
- Concentrate bravely.
God the Power will be yours.
Meditate soulfully. God the Love will be yours.
Contemplate selflessly. God the Bliss will be yours.
- Meditating in the heart
- I always tell seekers that it is better to meditate in the heart than in the mind. … If you meditate in the mind, you will be able to meditate for perhaps five minutes; and out of that five … minutes, for one minute you may meditate powerfully.
If you meditate in the heart, you are meditating where the soul is. … This is meditation....
- Question: Can you speak a little bit more about your meditation, about what you do when you are meditating … All kinds of thoughts come when I try to meditate.
- The highest meditation will be without any thought whatsoever. … When we meditate, we have to enter into our highest meditation. … Each one has his own highest meditation. … This is the highest meditation. … This is how I meditate and my students meditate....
- Group meditation[^5]
- You cannot sleep and at the same time concentrate, meditate and contemplate. … When we meditated just a few minutes ago, five boys ruined the group's meditation by sleeping. … If you are meditating on peace, then you will get peace. … When you aim for me like an arrow, you can do the best meditation. … In regular meditation, everyone will have a different approach....
- Question: Guru, how can we have a powerful love and concern for our life of aspiration?
- If you don’t pray and meditate, then the soul is not getting nourishment. … On yesterday’s food you cannot exist; on yesterday’s meditation you cannot exist. … So, if you love the soul, every day you shall pray and meditate....
- Question: How can a person who doesn't have a spiritual Master tell whether the kind of meditation
- When your meditation is correct, you will feel a kind of joy all over your body. … When you get a kind of spontaneous inner joy, then the meditation you have adopted is correct. … contrary, you feel a mental tension or disturbance, then you will know that that particular kind of meditation...
- I believe this is connected with meditation. Am I correct Guru? Music for meditation.
- I'd like to ask you now what is the purpose of this music when you are meditating? … What is the effect it is supposed to have on a person while he is meditating? … Sri Chinmoy: Soulful music intensifies our meditation. Soulful music expedites our soul's journey....
- Question: Guru, very often when meditating in a group in front of the room, when I concentrate on
- Sri Chinmoy: The thing is that while you are meditating, you do something with your eyes which is not … If you can keep your eyes normal while you are meditating, without tightening them, then this pressure … So when you meditate, try to feel a smooth flow inside you when you breathe in....
- Question: What is the difference between meditating in the normal way and offering gratitude?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation and gratitude are two different things. … Meditation is like turning on a machine. … So in meditation you turn the machine on, but in gratitude you feel that God has done something within...
- Question: In one of your books you said, "If you want to see God, you have to meditate twelve hours … If you want to come face to face with God, you have to meditate twenty-four hours a day."
- Even while you are eating, you will see that you are meditating. … While you are talking, while you are doing your office job, you will see that you are having your best meditation … So twenty-four hours a day your inner being will be able to meditate. It is quite possible....
- Question: Can meditation help people overcome their fear of death?
- Meditation can easily help the seeker to overcome the fear of death. … Meditation means conscious communication with God. … But if we meditate, then it becomes clear to us that God exists not only within us but also inside the...
- Introduction
- With his brand of meditation, on any given day he might dictate fifty pages of a book, write one hundred … poems or so and hold a meditation at the United Nations and perhaps give a university lecture or two … spoke with our interviewer today, and it's fascinating to note that he appears to be going deeper into meditation...
- Question: I couldn't meditate in the morning, but I was able to meditate later in the day.
- When you tried to meditate in front of your shrine, perhaps you needed or wanted more sleep. … But you did absolutely the right thing when you meditated later. It is like taking starts. … As long as you can get your meditation during the day, it is all right. … But since you could not meditate then, the best thing was to do it later, which you did....
- Question: Is meditation for everybody regardless of whether a person is consciously seeking God?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, meditation is for everybody whether he is consciously seeking God or not. … Meditation gives us inner wisdom. You may be satisfied with an iota of inner wisdom. … Just as we go to school for outer knowledge we have to meditate in order to get inner wisdom. … wants to get boundless Peace, Light and Bliss, then he shall also get that provided he continues to meditate...
- Question: How do you reach that state?[^146]
- Sri Chinmoy: Through prayer and meditation. … When we pray and meditate every day, our necessities diminish. … But if we pray and meditate, over a period of time our desires will gradually decrease until we have … But if we continue to pray and meditate, eventually we will care only for the aspiration-life — Him to...
- Question: Guru, you have said we have to face the outer world with the correct attitude. What sort of attitude is that?
- Our meditation is not a meditation that denies the reality of the world. … Reality is not yet manifested fully on earth, but it is our meditation, our inner life, our aspiration … ultimate Truth in this world of ours, but also to reveal and manifest that ultimate Truth with our dynamic meditation...
- Question: Can we purify our daily actions?
- It is like meditation in action. … If I meditate well, then only can I think of loving God and serving God. … Again, if I serve God devotedly and unconditionally, then only can I think of meditating at my highest … As action and meditation go together, so purity in our day-to-day life and spiritual progress must go...
- Question: How can one serve the Supreme?
- After you have conversed with one person and you are just about to speak with somebody else, meditate … And if you see that you don't have the time, then try to meditate as soon as you are free. … Each time you change your activity, meditate on the Supreme for just a minute. … Your meditation should be soulful and not mechanical....
- Question: Which sound or chakra would be best for me to meditate upon?
- Sri Chinmoy: For you, and all of us here, the best chakra to meditate upon is the heart. … If you meditate on the heart chakra, gradually you will come to feel that your own spiritual heart is … have boundless capacities, but if you are not totally pure then many, many problems may arise from meditating … When you meditate on the heart, your entire being is flooded with purity....
- Question: What do you do when you are not one hundred per cent alert during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: First of all, before you start meditating, breathe in deeply a few times. … and starting to enjoy the bliss of sleep, at that time you should say "No, let me enjoy the bliss of meditation
In meditation, movement is going on but in a very subtle, peaceful way. … During your meditation you yourself will realise when, instead of getting a very dynamic inner thrill...
- Question: Guru, with seekers from established spiritual cultures whom we meet around the world, one of the most difficult things is to make them feel how our path is different from the traditional spirituality they were raised with. I am wondering if you could offer some advice.[^3]
- is called untiring, ceaseless meditation. … I meditated in my room, I meditated in the street. While cycling I meditated. … Again, while walking you can meditate. … He also meditated under the Panchavati tree. … Lord Buddha used to meditate while walking. Afterwards he meditated at the foot of the Bodhi tree....
- To See God the Light
To see God the Light,To feel God the Light,
To become God the Light:This is the only goal
Of my meditation.
- 146. Four truths
- I speak of the unfathomable truth: Love. I think of the immeasurable truth: Light. I meditate on the unsurpassable truth: Compassion. I love the undeniable truth: Perfection.
- 581. Who feeds my life?
- My prayer feeds
My orphan life.
My meditation feeds My infant life.
My realisation feeds My simple life.
My perfection feeds My sincere life.
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- My Lord, When I pray and meditate, I most lovingly clasp The Smiles of Your Eye....
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- God, how can I please You most, By praying or by meditating? “My child, You can please Me most Only by playing with Me All the time!”
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- If you all the time think Of others’ injustices to you, When will you have time To think of God, pray to God And meditate on God?
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- If you are praying soulfully
And meditating self-givingly,Then rest assured you are doing
Absolutely the right thing,And God Himself treasures you.
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- When a spiritual Master meditates, Does humanity know Where his consciousness is? Will humanity ever know What he is doing For the betterment of humanity? No, never!