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- 49.
- My Lord,
How can you be so heartlessly cruel to me?
Can You not give me A special kind of morning meditation To multiply my heart's Aspiration-flames rapidly?
- Question: You said in particular that meditating on the moon is for tenderness. … Meditating on the sun?
- If you want to have power, then look at the sun and meditate....
- My self-portrait[^27]
- This morning after using my moving bench press machine, I took two photos of myself while I was meditating...
- When I pray, when I meditate
- When I pray
God embraces My crying heart,
My surrendering heart, My dreaming heart.
When I meditate God blesses my life, God caresses my soul, God reveals my Goal.
- 210. THE VOICE OF PRAYER
- The voice of prayer will always ascend, No matter where it is found.The poise of meditation will always spread, No matter if it is Heaven-free or earth-bound.
- 8412. Minor Incidents
- You do not love God. You do not pray to God. You do not meditate on God. Do you think That these are only minor incidents In God’s Cosmic Drama?
- An Opportunity To Meditate
- Every moment can be An opportunity to meditate, No matter where you are Or what is going on around you. It is all a matter Of where your consciousness is.
- 710. I pray to God
- I pray to God So that He can prepare me. I meditate on God So that He can illumine me. I surrender to God So that He can claim me.
- 4065. To Pierce The Veil Of Ignorance
- To pierce the veil of ignorance-night, Either bring to the fore The arrows of your soul-power Or cheerfully pray, prayerfully meditate And silently wait for God’s choice Hour.
- 4995. God will give Himself to you
- If your sincerity-sky
Concentrates on God, Then God will come to you
Immediately.
If your gratitude-sun Meditates on God, Then God will give Himself to you Entirely.
- You
- You are dear to me
BecauseYou love me.
You are dearer to me
BecauseYou love meditation.
You are dearest to me
BecauseYou love God.
- 215. You
- You are dear to me
BecauseYou love me.
You are dearer to me
BecauseYou love meditation.
You are dearest to me
BecauseYou love God.
- Contemplation
- Concentration is the penetration of the mind into an object or subject.
Meditation is the enlargement of one’s inner being. Contemplation is the divine enjoyment of one’s higher self.
- 1.
- To concentrate on God is to live with God.To meditate on God is to live for God.
To contemplate on God is to possess and be possessed by God.
- 8.
- Through prayer God says, “My child, I am waiting for you. Come and see Me.” Through meditation God says, “My son, wait for Me. I am coming to see you.”
- Question: During a meditation, if something external to the meditation occurs — such as a noise or … something unforeseen — is it better to include it in the meditation or to try to shut it out and pursue … the meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Each seeker has to know his own standard of meditation. … If we are a beginner, we should feel that anything that is not part of the meditation is like an intruder … But if we are very advanced, and there is a disturbing sound or a noise during our meditation, we can … challenging foreign element into an inner music, a thrilling or haunting music, which will really add to our meditation … When we have this capacity we shall include the disturbance in our meditation....
- Question: I would like to know which you consider to be the more useful form of spiritual activity — to meditate
- However, if one meditates and offers good will and also offers dedicated service on the physical plane … When I meditate with my disciples, I offer them my light and inner wealth. … When I go to the United Nations and various universities to give lectures and hold meditations, this … spiritual figures who do not want to mix with humanity, so they offer their good will at the time of meditation … However, if a spiritual Master offers something on the outer plane, like meditating with others and bringing...
- Question: During a meditation, if something external to the meditation occurs — such as noise or … something unforeseen — is it better to include it in the meditation or to try to shut it out and pursue … the meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Each seeker has to know his own standard of meditation. … If we are a beginner, we should feel that anything that is not part of the meditation is like an intruder … But if we are very advanced, and there is a disturbing sound or a noise during our meditation, we can … challenging foreign element into an inner music, a thrilling or haunting music, which will really add to our meditation … When we have this capacity we shall include the disturbance in our meditation....
- Maintaining my poise
- My usual farewell is to meditate with her. We went inside to meditate, and then, can you imagine? … Don’t ruin the meditation.” Then I entered into my sister’s room. … I meditated with my sister for five or six minutes. … Very nicely I went into my highest consciousness to prove that I can meditate....
- Question: Please explain your system, so we can know how to go about meditation.
Now each individual has to learn how to meditate from a teacher, from a spiritual Master. … If you want to learn how to meditate, you have to follow a specific path. … Then he is bound to teach you how to meditate. Why to meditate? … But how to meditate, unfortunately, a seeker does not know. … The Master gives a short interview and meditates with that particular disciple....
- Question: Do you recommend the use of any special mantra?
- Sri Chinmoy: I prefer to advise my disciples to meditate, but I have given mantras to a few of them. … But if we can meditate well for ten or fifteen minutes, this serves the same purpose because we enter
When aspirants cannot enter into their deepest meditation because the mind is restless, this is their … 'Supreme', 'AUM' or 'God' can be repeated by anyone for a few minutes before he actually starts his meditation...
- Invitation to meditate[^4]
- Dear seekers, every Friday we meditate in one of the conference rooms here, and offer our aspiration … I wish to invite the United Nations members who are present today to come and meditate with us. … This meditation is not only for the United Nations but for the world at large. … This meditation is for the God-lover and the man-lover....
- Question: I feel as though we don't love God enough and want to love Him more. How can we learn to love God?
- If we don't meditate, no matter how much people appreciate us, we feel that something is missing. … But if we do meditate, no matter how many calamities take place, still we are happy. … If we want divine satisfaction, we have to meditate on God as soulfully as possible. … But when we meditate for a while, we feel that God is something natural and normal....
- Question: Why is it necessary to have flowers, incense and so forth in order to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: When we offer flowers, when we burn incense, light candles and take a shower before meditation … Flowers, incense and washing before meditation also help us to have purity. … So before you start meditation, no matter when you meditate, take a shower or wash your eyes, ears and...
- Question: After we have finished meditating, how do we go about contemplating?
- only very, very, very few have even a limited capacity for contemplation; otherwise, all are up to the meditation … So please think only of meditation right now. … But the necessity for contemplation has not yet come because your concentration and meditation are not … When concentration is perfect and meditation is perfect, then the necessity of contemplation is imminent...
- Interviewer: What is this peace mission? What has been your contribution?
- talks on spirituality at various places, I was invited to open up centres where people come to pray and meditate … I have been offering meditations at the United Nations for twenty-nine years. … Every Tuesday and Friday I have been going there between one and two o’clock to meditate in silence, … and those who are interested in the spiritual life come to meditate with me....
- Question: What should be our attitude towards others in group meditations?
- If you think of somebody beside you who is not aspiring at all, then your meditation will be on that … One disciple's secret for excellent meditation is that she enters into me like a bullet, an arrow. … Collective meditation is like team work. On the outer plane, very often you help each other. … But in collective meditation it is on the inner plane that you have to score....
- Crazy Nathan[^14]
The funniest thing Nathan said was about meditation and contemplation. … He asked me, “Do you meditate while you are walking and running?”
I said, “Yes.” … I can’t meditate, but I contemplate.” I said, “That is the highest state.
He looked at me and said, “It can’t be higher than meditation.”...
- My Prayer Is My Oneness
My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme! My prayer is my oneness with Your Transcendental Eye. My meditation is my fulness inside Your Universal Heart. My Supreme, my Supreme, my Supreme!
- 368. Yet God loves him
- He sighs before he prays. He cries before he concentrates. He sleeps before he meditates. He fights before he aspires. Yet God loves him, Because he eventually Does the right thing.