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- Question: What happens if we aren't regular in our meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you aren't regular in your meditation, the ignorant forces will pull you back. … One day you won't meditate because you are exhausted. … The next day you will say you didn't lose anything by not meditating the previous day. … The third day you will say that meditation is not at all necessary for God-realisation....
- Question: If I don't have a good meditation when I am meditating with you, I feel miserable because
- Chinmoy: Since I am your Guru, if you are sincere you will always feel that I am responsible for your meditation … if you sincerely try to meditate but cannot do so. … There are insincere people who will not get up to meditate early in the morning even once in three months … But if you are trying, I will be responsible for your meditation....
- Question: What happens if we are meditating next to someone who is thinking worldly thoughts?
- Sri Chinmoy: If your meditation is very high, very powerful, fire is emanating from your eyes. … Many times I have seen when three or four aspirants meditate together, if one of them is in a very high … meditation, then the others have to leave the place or are compelled from within to meditate soulfully...
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- My heart and I wanted to have a cave To pray and meditate, Meditate and pray, But God made me His Will-fulfilling ambassador On earth.
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- If you feel that meditation
Can give you somethingThat nobody else on earth
Can give you,Then your meditation will be
Peerless.
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- There was a time When meditation was a difficult subject For a Western seeker. But now his heart Has become an excellent student Of meditation-studies.
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- Without meditation We see the body of things around us. With meditation We enter into the heart of everything That is within us and around us.
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- What do you want?
I want patience.
Meditate on your dear mother’s patience-flooded heart. Meditate on a tiny seed lying inside the ground.
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- What do you want?
I want dynamism.
Meditate on a machine in motion, for example, a printing press. Meditate on the sprinter’s bursting start.
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- What do you want?
I want mental flexibility.
Meditate on a child spontaneously playing in a garden. Meditate on the tenderness of a plant.
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- What do you want?
I want grace.
Meditate on the utter helplessness of a child. Meditate on the blessing of the gently drizzling rain.
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- What do you want?
I want outer wealth.
Meditate on the countless mangos of a huge tree. Meditate on the vastness of green fields.
- 984. Two representatives
- I have two representatives: Prayer and Meditation. Prayer goes up and speaks To God On my behalf. God comes down and speaks To my representative, Meditation.
- Meditate Here And Now
- If you believe in God And want to enjoy eternal oneness with Him, Then meditate here and now. Your present meditation will determine Your future realisation.
- Question: When I first became a disciple it was a joy to meditate and follow the path. … More recently I feel that I don't have that joy, so I don't meditate regularly.
- Sri Chinmoy: Do you meditate every day?
Disciple: About fifteen minutes. … You meditate for only fifteen minutes a day and you find it difficult to meditate regularly. … Those who have accepted our path must make it a point to meditate for at least an hour, even if you meditate … You may say that you cannot meditate daily, or you do not meditate well, but please try. … If you do not have a profound meditation every day, that does not mean that you will not meditate any...
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- Meditation Challenges Imperfection....
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- Meditation-smiles Enlighten.
- Question: I was really inspired to meditate for five or six days, and then I woke up one morning … and did not have the feeling that I wanted to practise my meditation.
- So even if you cannot meditate properly or have your best meditation every day, you should not be worried … But when you become an expert, meditation will be at your command. … It is the same with meditation. … If you meditate regularly for five months, six months, or a year or two, then automatically meditation … You will feel that meditation is your soul’s necessity and the inner urge to meditate will never be able...
- Author's preface
- This key is meditation. Meditation simplifies our outer life and energises our inner life. … Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that … Meditation is a divine gift. … Meditation tells the aspirant that his human life is a secret and sacred thing, and it affirms his divine … Meditation gives him a new eye to see God, a new ear to hear the Voice of God and a new heart to feel...
- Author's preface
- This key is meditation. Meditation simplifies our outer life and energises our inner life. … Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that … Meditation is a divine gift. … Meditation tells the aspirant that his human life is a secret and sacred thing, and it affirms his divine … Meditation gives him a new eye to see God, a new ear to hear the Voice of God and a new heart to feel...
- Now when we meditate, do we affect any other planets, for instance, or anything else?
- Sri Chinmoy: It depends on who is meditating. … If someone is an aspirant of the highest rank and if his meditation is bearing fruit, solid fruit, at … But if a spiritual Master meditates, his meditation can enter into any planet anywhere in God’s universe … When these people meditate, they can enter into the planets, or they can offer the result of their meditation...
- Question: How can we give up the desire for a strong meditation so that the soul-awareness with its
- Sri Chinmoy: We have to know that if an aspirant is of a very high standard, he need not start meditating … If he wants to have some result immediately after his meditation, then he tries only to have a very strong … or powerful meditation. … But a seeker should not aspire for a desired result from a powerful meditation. … during his highest meditation....
- Question: Isn't this a time when people like you and Mother Teresa and some others are awakening this in a lot of people?
- Sri Chinmoy: Not just us, but everybody who practises prayer and meditation! … Heart-power means prayer and meditation; heart-power comes from spirituality. … Prayer and meditation must go together. … When I meditate, Somebody is saying: “This is the way you can have peace. … So prayer and meditation have to go together....
- Who really meditates?
- There are those who blame their Master For not giving enough importance To meditation. But who are the ones who really meditate? Those who really need God And God alone, Those who see the Supreme in their Master As their only Guru, Are the ones who sleeplessly, Soulfully and breathlessly meditate.
- Question: How can we enter into the art of Immortality?
- When you meditate, always you have to feel that which is infinite is immortal, and that which is finite … If you want to meditate, meditate on something vast. … Look at the sky and meditate and the vastness of the sky will enter into you. … Or meditate on the vast ocean and the consciousness of the ocean will enter into you. … So please meditate only on things that are vast....
- Question: How long would it take the average person who comes to a spiritual path to realise God?
- His meditation must be most sincere, devoted and fulfilling. … If one can meditate eight hours or twelve hours a day most devotedly and soulfully, then there is every … But if one meditates, say, for five minutes, even if it is most soulful, it may not be possible for that … Still, it is more advisable to meditate one minute most sincerely and devotedly, than to meditate insincerely … the same progress as you would have done meditating twelve or sixteen hours a day without a Master....
- Question: Guru, is it good to meditate on mandalas?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, you can meditate on mandalas. You can meditate on anything that gives you joy. … Again, you can meditate on a flower and say, "How beautiful this flower is. … Let me meditate on this flower and become as pure as the flower." … Let me meditate on it and become Infinite Consciousness." … Whatever gives you most joy, utmost joy, is the best thing for you to meditate upon....
- Question: Some days I feel that instead of meditating I want to say prayers or I want to do something
- The best thing is to meditate every day. If you cannot meditate, then pray. … If you want to help people, then help people after you have done your meditation. … You have to meditate. If you cannot meditate, you can pray. … Ultimately, prayer and meditation will give you the same goal. … But to go without praying or meditating is like going without money....
- Question: If during your meditation you feel comfortable and really inspired, can you increase your … meditation time?
- Sri Chinmoy: For the time being just remain in a meditative mood and read spiritual writings or sing … If you have been meditating for one hour, then after two or three months you can increase the length … Even if you are inspired, please increase your meditation time by degrees. … Otherwise, if today you meditate well and you meditate for another hour, then in a subtle way pride enters … Meditation is just like eating....
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- Yesterday I told my Lord Supreme, "My Lord, I do not have time to meditate." Today I am telling my Lord Supreme, "My Lord, I do not feel like meditating."
Tomorrow I shall tell my Lord Supreme, "My Lord, as long as I know that You love me, I do not have to meditate."
My Lord Supreme is telling me, "My child, your grandiose discoveries are nothing but self-mockeries.
There is nobody on earth who can sincerely say that he has no time to meditate.There is no soulful seeker who can truthfully say that he does not feel like meditating.
There is no real seeker who can dare to say that as long as I love him, he does not have to meditate.
"No, My child.
You have to meditate regularly, for I have given you ample time.You have to meditate soulfully, for I have given you a onenessheart.
You have to meditate unconditionally for your self-mastery, which is nothing short of your discovery of My transcendental Height and My immeasurable Depth."