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- Question: What can I do about the fact that I always have difficulty sleeping during the night?
- There are also some sincere seekers who pray to God to give them less sleep so they can pray and meditate … You have to pray to God, “Please give me sleep so that tomorrow I can meditate and go to work.” … Up until now, I have been meditating for half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening. … But now at night I have got four or five extra hours to meditate, so I am most fortunate.” … I tell you, if at night you can start meditating with a divine attitude, you will not have to meditate...
- Question: Is Hatha Yoga necessary in concentration, meditation and contemplation?
- Naturally, you will not be able to concentrate and meditate. … But when we meditate properly and life-energy enters into us from our meditation, automatically our life … Concentration, meditation and contemplation are the only things that bring real peace. … The seekers start directly with aspiration and meditation. … Hatha Yoga has something to offer which is very limited, and meditation has something to offer which...
- Spiritual perseverance
It is not because you meditated for six hours that God gave you some divine quality. … First, you have to ask, "Who gave me the capacity to meditate for six hours? … Ten years ago, even one year ago, I could not meditate for even one fleeting minute, and today I was … able to meditate for six hours. … Then we will see that every day our meditation will be most fruitful....
- The inner hunger
- While we are meditating, if all of a sudden we see a streak of light, for months we can treasure it, … When we aspire during our meditation, we feel that the vast sky belongs to us; the vast ocean we feel … We have to get up early in the morning at six o'clock or seven o'clock to meditate. … In the spiritual life also we cannot expect the highest type of meditation every day. … In my case, if I want to do the highest meditation, I can easily do it at any time....
- Question: Is meditation a way of having absolute freedom from all attachments which cause us to be
- Certainly meditation will take you far beyond the boundaries of pleasure, which is immediately followed
But in meditation we get Joy, inner Peace, inner Light and inner Delight. … And about the freedom that you are speaking of, you are absolutely right, meditation will give you eternal … This you can get from a life of meditation.
Meditation will free you from the sea of ignorance. … Meditation will give you everlasting freedom. And this freedom is the freedom of oneness....
- Question: I'm trying to have faith in all that you are saying. But if it is true, why don't I feel light and peace inside me?
- body, there are many things which you may not feel, but which I am aware of, because I have prayed and meditated … If you pray and meditate soulfully and cultivate more faith in what you have heard from spiritual seekers … You meditate on the words and ideas that the book embodies, and eventually you do get light. … Similarly, you have to pray and meditate before you will feel your own divinity. … Pray and meditate sincerely, and through your faith, your real divinity will one day loom large....
- Question: How can one discipline the mind during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: It is only during meditation that you get the opportunity to discipline the mind. … When you are not in meditation you will see that each thought or idea is composed of words. … But during deep meditation, you do not need words to form an idea.
How can you discipline your mind during meditation?
During meditation if you can really make yourself feel that you have only the heart, or if you can...
- Question: On the islands of Hawaii, nature is so beautiful. Is the beauty of nature preventing the people here from entering deeper into spirituality?
- But if we want to see the inner beauty of nature, then immediately we have to pray and meditate. … If we want to appreciate the inner beauty of nature, then we can pray and meditate at the foot of a tree … If we pray and meditate, then we appreciate the inner beauty of the flower. … But people come here not to pray or meditate, not to get inner light or inner beauty. … If we want to enter into the heart of beauty, then we pray and meditate....
- Selfishness
- If you can feel on the strength of your aspiration and meditation that your friends and neighbours are … When you meditate daily, feel that you are like a bird spreading its wings little by little. … In order to spread your consciousness-wings, you have to do only one thing: meditate regularly, sincerely … Meditation is the only answer. … Only if you meditate will you be able to find the way which will be most effective for you....
- Question: I have trouble organising my life. It takes so much time to pay bills and do the everyday things in life that there is not enough time for music. There is so much junk in my life; it is just like my mind. I would like to have a much more simple life, but to live in this world I need to do so many things.
- When you meditate, there is tremendous silence. … Before that I meditate. … For me and my students, the highest type of music is meditation. … Life without meditation is out of tune with the inner harmony....
- Question: What role does selfless service play on your path?
- Meditation and selfless service are both of paramount importance. … Aspiration includes both meditation and selfless service. … We cannot separate selfless service from meditation. When we meditate, we go high, very high....
- Question: What are the objectives of your Peace Concerts?[^3]
Sri Chinmoy: People can fulfil their dreams only through prayers and meditations. … If we can pray and meditate regularly, then all our dreams will be fulfilled. … Then we have to pray and meditate to make the world better. … Our philosophy is to make the world better with prayers and meditations. (3): OGT 23....
- The Master's farewell talk[^3]
- Whether you can meditate or not is one thing, but to enter into my Consciousness is another. … my Consciousness, I can assure you that you will get infinitely more than you expect from your own meditation
If you can do both, if you can meditate well every day and, at the same time, enter into my Consciousness
I am satisfied with your aspiration, concentration and meditation, collectively, but this satisfaction...
- A special blessing and power
- And that concentration and meditation will be meant only for him or for her. … After that we will have a general meditation. … In that meditation, all of us will aspire and invoke the Supreme and all of us will be benefited. … In their deep meditation, they feel a kind of revelation, but they have not been able to bring their...
- Mr. George Riddell: There are many people in the United States who claim that with the use of certain drugs they are able to get closer to God. Of course the Chinese have been using opium for centuries and centuries. How do you feel about using stimulants, drugs, etc., to stimulate the mind in order to get closer to God?
- One way is that by meditation and prayer, we know the real Truth, we feel the real ecstasy, we see the … These last three go together and we can come into that state only through meditation and oneness with … But when I pray, when I concentrate, when I meditate, I enter into the Living Consciousness of God and … He can come closer to God only by loving God and meditating on God....
- Sri Chinmoy celebrates fifth anniversary at U.N.[^5]
- Sri Chinmoy: Today we are celebrating the fifth anniversary of the United Nations Meditation Group. … I do hope that the Meditation Group singers will learn these songs. … the entire world But it sees not its own life; Therefore, keeping the two eyes closed The Yogi meditates … The gathering began with a silent and conscious meditation for the peace of mankind....
- Daily News, New York's Picture Newspaper
- No. 151 New York, N.Y. 10017
Saturday, December 18, 1976
Guru Tells Abe: Don't Think, Meditate
Guru Sri Chinmoy was there to press his approach to problem solving — meditation and love of God —
He urged that the mayor, in grappling with the city’s problems, try a new tack — meditation instead
Sessions for Delegates
The guru conducts meditation sessions twice a week for United Nation delegates...
- Mr CPN Singh, Member of Parliament
- But when we meditate, we meditate on something that is vast, larger than the largest — like the ocean … That is one difference between concentration and meditation. … But when you meditate, you will meditate on something that is very vast. … This is meditation. … Meditation is all vastness and peace....
- I want only one student, heart
- He had answered thousands of questions, but now he did not even meditate before the public. … They thought that others would think that they were not spiritual and that they could not meditate at … But he only holds meditation and we don’t learn anything from it. … Who can meditate for two or three hours? He is fooling us and he is fooling himself.” … He went on meditating and this time instead of two hours, he conducted meditation for four hours....
- Question: You once said that in your last life your disciples were ninety-nine per cent devoted to you. Why didn't they come to you this time?
- As you do not eat most delicious food every day, so your meditation, your sincerity, your devotion and … For six months someone can meditate well; then for two years he takes a rest. … Somebody can meditate for one day and then for three months he takes a rest....
- Question: Sometimes when I see my parents, they try to get me to leave your path, and other times they seem very sympathetic. I was just thinking maybe it would be better for me to break every connection I have with my parents. What do you think?
- In the morning, if they pray or meditate, that is their spiritual life. … If they pray and meditate in their own way, then you are safe. … But if they themselves pray and meditate in their own way, I will not say it is a compromise....
- Question: How can you see the inner beauty of something you want to paint or draw, and bring it out?
- Sri Chinmoy: When you are going to paint or draw something, first meditate for at least five minutes … While you are imagining the seed, try to feel at that time that you are meditating on light; and when … you are seeing the tree, feel that you are meditating on life....
- The message of perseverance[^4]
Bopdeb used to pray and meditate under a tree near a big pond.
He started praying and meditating, and after meditating seriously for a few days, he started reading...
- Ashtabakra is tested[^11]
- There you will see an elderly woman praying and meditating.
Ashtabakra went to the Himalayas and saw the elderly lady praying and meditating there. … He prayed and meditated beside her, all the time thinking of Suprabha, his future wife....
- We shall not wait[^7]
- We shall start praying and meditating. We shall pray continuously. We shall meditate continuously. … If we continuously meditate, one day at God's choice Hour, we shall grow into God's universal Light....
- Question: How does one bring the Spirit into his everyday life?
- Then, when he feels God’s Presence during his meditation, when he feels God’s infinite Power and infinite … If you meditate every day and feel God’s Presence for just ten minutes, that is more than enough for … If you remember how you felt during meditation in the morning, then that is enough for you to be protected...
- This is my last warning
- When Ramdas was a young boy, one night he and his Guru, Devadas Maharaj, were meditating separately at … Ramdas meditated a few hours; then he fell asleep. … If you ever fall asleep again when you are supposed to be meditating, I shall not keep you as my disciple...
- The Master's brick-representative
- From now on get up early in the morning and meditate for a few hours. … During the day also try to meditate. … And at night you must meditate for a few hours if you really want to please me.”...
- Question: I have sometimes awakened in the middle of the night with a strong feeling of elation and joy. Is there something that takes place while we are sleeping that we are not aware of?
- So the best thing is to always try to be conscious and open and to spend more time in meditation. … If you right now meditate for one hour a day, then try to spend two hours a day. … Out of this time you can spend more time in meditation....
- Question: In practical terms, how can we give the world love and concern?[^46]
- In the morning or in the evening, during your regular prayer and meditation, you can add this prayer:
We have been meditating together for fifteen or twenty minutes. … What we get from our meditation you can easily give to others, but the process is an inner process....