Enter terms
• Search tips »
Pages found: 8579
- Question: I would like to know what teaching you give for obtaining a good state of meditation.
- There is not one kind of meditation that everybody has to do. … Each patient has his own medicine; each individual has his own way of meditation. … I meditate with him first for a few minutes, and then I tell him how to meditate. … The meditation is meant only for that person. It is given in strict confidence. … And to perform that part one has to meditate according to his own inner necessity....
- Question: When you meditate, do you hold any special position, like they do in Yoga?
- If you ask me what I do, to be very frank with you, when I meditate, now being an expert in spiritual … life, I can meditate while I am walking, while I am running, while I am driving in New York. … This is the place for meditation. Again, here in the middle of the chest there is another centre. … And, I wish to say, for the beginner it is always safe to meditate on the heart. … So it is safer to meditate on the heart centre....
- Question: What is the relationship between concentration, meditation and contemplation?
- Concentration clears the way so that the traveller can walk along the path of meditation. … When we enter into meditation, we try to receive inner peace, light and bliss. … Meditation is a vast realm. … Concentration focuses on a very small thing, but meditation deals with the vast. … into our meditation....
- Meditation and self-discovery
- The connecting link is our meditation. … He also uses the same language, which is meditation. When we meditate we speak to Him. … When He meditates, which He always does, He speaks to us. … Meditation is the common language of man and God. … Inner meditation can take place at every moment. What is this inner meditation?...
- Question: I would like to know the difference between prayer and meditation.[^79]
- But meditation does spread; in fact, meditation is immediate expansion. … Meditation, like the wings of a bird, is always widening into peace, light and delight. … The entire universe of light and delight we see, feel and grow into when we meditate.
But in meditation we do not do that. … In the deepest meditation, the seeker just enters into his own infinite aspect....
- 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....
- offer your advice to the average person or to someone who is just beginning to acquaint himself with meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: Prayer is one road and meditation is another road. … In the East, in India, meditation is part and parcel of people’s living existence, whereas prayer is … When we pray, we talk to God; and when we meditate, we listen to God. … In the West people find it easy to talk to God, but meditation they find more difficult. … If it is very difficult for someone to meditate [Sri Chinmoy demonstrates meditation], then let him start...
- The Invocation to the Supreme
- Meditation is extremely necessary, but we also have to invoke the presence of the Supreme twenty-four … So the Invocation is the real meditation for us. … When you sing the Invocation, it serves the purpose of prayer and meditation together. … Some spiritual Masters say, “Meditate, but do it in secret; do it like a thief, a divine thief.” … get up a few minutes earlier than your family does and meditate....
- Question: If we meditate in the evening or at other times during the day, is it as beneficial as … meditating early in the morning?
- You say that in the evening your meditation is deep and profound. … But please do morning meditation also. … But please do not meditate while lying down. … If you try to meditate while lying down, I will not be responsible for that meditation." … But in your case, when you meditate, you have to be very careful and sit up and meditate....
- Meditation: individual and collective[^5]
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals.
Meditation, individual and collective.
Meditation, individual and collective. It is easy to meditate individually.
It is easy to meditate collectively, in a group. … to meditate without being disturbed in the least....
- The Guru and the disciple in one form
- She prayed and meditated. … Finally, in a deep meditation, she felt that her highest Self was the Guru and her lower self was the...
- Question: How can I know if I am making progress?
- So if I pray and meditate sincerely early in the morning, then I will feel some energy, some strength … If I can feel these qualities during my prayer and meditation, it is definitely progress....
- After the meditation at Heiligenkreuz Monastery
- Superior and to the Sisters of this convent for having given me this blessingful opportunity to pray and meditate … We had contacts with Buddhist monks and we tried to be one in meditation together....
- Examiner: So you've always had this interest in athletics?
- If we are physically fit, then early in the morning we will be able to get up and meditate. … and other physical ailments, then we will not be inclined to get up early in the morning to pray and meditate...
- 32.
- If one prays and meditates sincerely, somebody within him talks to him and tells him what to do and what … In 1985, when I was praying and meditating, that somebody within me — you can call it an inner voice...
- Question: What can we gain by reading your book of aphorisms, Food for the Soul?
- Meditation is food for the soul. … Every day you can enter into your highest consciousness if you want to, just by meditating on this book...
- Question: What kind of powers do we get from meditation?
- But when we acquire power from our meditation we try to offer it to the world at large; we use it to … And if we still have ignorance in ourselves, we use the power that we get from meditation to illumine...
- Question: How can I become a divine runner filled with gratitude?
- Before you run, think of what you want to achieve or become and meditate on that very thing. … If today you meditate on a particular subject or object, then tomorrow you will most assuredly grow into...
- 8 April 1975, 11:30 a.m.[^3]
- Peace In our outer life, Peace is compromise. In our inner life, Peace is something that constantly helps us Transcend our height And Expand our length And Deepen our depth. (3): Sri Chinmoy and a group of sincere aspirants prayed for and meditated on world peace in the Peace Room of the Church Centre for the United Nations at 11:30 a.m. Sri Chinmoy closed the meditation by reciting a poem which he had written on peace.
- 1.
- Sri Chinmoy
Spiritual DirectorUnited Nations Meditation Group
United NationsNew York, New York 10017 … He is deeply aware of the need for prayer and meditation in the affairs of men and nations....
- Pablo Casals' Birth Centenary
- Casals welcomed Sri Chinmoy at the maestro’s home in Puerto Rico for a memorable exchange in philosophy, meditation … The song was sung on 11 October 1976 by the United Nations Meditation Group during a program at the United...
- When I Pray, I See God Looking at Me
When I pray,I see God looking at me
From a very high height.When I meditate,
I see God at my heart-door.
- 14798
- Most often we abide By the dictates of the mind. But if we pray and meditate Regularly, soulfully And devotedly, We listen to the dictates Of our heart.
- 36189
- My meditation says to God:
“My Lord, please carry meTo Your highest Height
And make me feelThat I belong to
Your inner Family Circle.”
- 15604
- As we cannot live on earth
With yesterday’s food,Even so, we cannot please God
With yesterday’s dedicated service,Yesterday’s prayer
And yesterday’s meditation.
- 31.
- When my meditation is deep, I hear an angel playing the music of Infinity....
- 49.
- My silent meditation says To my body, "Who tells you, my dear friend, That you are always a victim To worthless and useless lethargy? Not true, not true."
- 11. A very special prayer
- Lamentation-force Is a very special prayer. Silence-force Is a very special concentration. Delight-force Is a very special meditation. Perfection-force Is a very special contemplation.
- When I pray and meditate
- When I pray I enjoy the depth Of God-Compassion In my heart-world. When I meditate I enjoy the embrace Of God-Concentration In my soul-world.
- November 13
- If you know how to wait for God, God will certainly come to you one day. But your meditation can and does give you quicker and better results.