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- We shall not wait[^30]
- 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....
- Most people would interpret meditation as being an inner process and I wonder if you could explain for
- morning, if I have freshness in my mind and if I have sound health, then I will be inspired to pray and meditate … If I do not have good health, then I am not going to get up and pray and meditate. … So while we run outwardly, it is the Creation that we see and when we pray and meditate, we are trying...
- Joel Martin: You have offered meditations at the United Nations, and you have a fine reputation for
Again, if we pray and meditate, God is bound to listen to our prayer. … It is lack of prayer and meditation that causes this problem of separativity. … If we pray soulfully and meditate soulfully, then this problem can easily be solved....
- Bill Pearl: Are you seeking uniqueness in the weightlifting field so you can have a larger impact on a larger group of people?
- Everything I have achieved is by virtue of my prayer, meditation and spiritual life. … Now my Lord wants my prayer-life and meditation-life to work through my physical, earthly body in this … Otherwise, if one’s body is not fit, one cannot get up in the morning to meditate; one cannot do anything...
- Question: I don't understand the connection between aspiration and manifestation. When I was at home, I was so inspired. But now that I have come here to visit, it seems confusing.
- Early in the morning you meditate. This is your life of aspiration. … If you stay only with aspiration and meditate, meditate, remaining always closeted, then who is going...
- Question: What role does conscious will play in the spiritual life?
- While sleeping, we may repeat God's Name once or twice, and then we shall feel that we have prayed or meditated … For one second we shall meditate and for ten minutes we shall sleep. … People who pray and meditate unconsciously will take thousands and millions of years to realise God....
- Question: Should we encourage dreams? Is it good to dream about you?
- They say that if you meditate after four am for about an hour and then go to sleep, you will get sweet … First meditate, and if your meditation is very sound, then you go to sleep....
- Question: I would like to know in which way to invoke Ganesha.
- So the best time for meditation is four o’clock in the early morning. … Then at noon, by which time everybody is up, you can meditate again. … the evening, at the twilight hour, it is again the best time for repeating the name of Ganesha and meditating...
- We shall not wait[^5]
- 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....
- Kothai Chinta Kothai Bhabana
Kothai chinta kothai bhabanaSthir achapal man
Kari jyoti dhyan dekhina swapanNahi ashanti mithya maran
Ache shudhu ek ananta jyotiParam niranjan
Translation
No thought,No desire,
Only calm and tranquil mindI have become.
I meditate on light.I see not false and fruitless dream.
In me, there is no sea of unrestAnd for me there is no torture of death.
There is only one endless light serene,Pure, infinite and immortal.
- Tomar Karuna Amar Kamana
Tomar karuna amar kamanaTaba paye mor hiyar jatana
Taba sudha hasi amar sadhanaMukti nritya amar eshana
Amare pheliya jeona jeonaBhaba guha ghore amare rekhona
Translation
I long for Your Compassion.I place my heart’s sorrowful pangs
At Your divine Feet.I meditate to watch
And to implore Your Liberation.Do grant me Your Liberation-Dance.
Do not go awayLeaving me here alone.
Do not leave meInside the tiny earth-cage.
- 451. Tomorrow
- Tomorrow I shall get up
Early in the morning, Since today I am dead-tired.
Tomorrow I shall meditate on God, Since today my impure vital, jealous mind And insecure heart Are bothering me far beyond my tolerance-might.
Tomorrow I shall definitely love God, Since today I feel a kind of inner obligation To please my body, vital, mind and heart.
After all, they comprise my own poor little life. But tomorrow without fail I shall love God.
- Question: Guru in meditation I seem to reach a certain height or plateau, which I can't go beyond
- Just try to be always one with the soulfulness of your meditation-capacity and your dedication-sincerity...
- Mr. Schonfeld: You say that love is the predominant element that appeals to you. How did you discover this?
- Sri Chinmoy: I have discovered it in my meditation and realisation....
- Question: Is surrender the same thing as praying to the Supreme to let His Will be done?
- But real surrender is not your prayer or your meditation; it is your action....
- 114. Judicious
- Madal:
Chinmoy, is it judicious on my part not to sleep at all and to meditate all day and night so...
- Tomorrow
- Tomorrow I shall get up
Early in the morning, Since today I am dead-tired.
Tomorrow I shall meditate on God, Since today my impure vital, jealous mind And insecure heart Are bothering me far beyond my Tolerance-might.
Tomorrow I shall definitely love God, Since today I feel a kind of inner obligation To please my body, vital, mind and heart.
After all, they comprise my own poor little life. But tomorrow without fail I shall love God.
- Question: Is faith something that increases when we practise meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: If we pray or meditate we can increase our faith. Faith is like a muscle....
- 111 Judicious
- Madal: Chinmoy, is it judicious on my part not to sleep at all, but to meditate all day and night so...
- June 12
- My morning begins, And I ask my mind to tell me If it knows where peace is. My mind tells me It does not know where peace is, And it does not want to know. I ask my heart the same question. My heart says It does not know where peace is, But it does want to know. I ask my soul where peace is, And my soul says: "Where else can peace be, If not inside your own Silence-meditation-breath?"
- A visit from Sri Aurobindo
- I saw Him in the Consciousness He had when He used to meditate on Mother Kali for some time and become...
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- getting enough joy from your training on the physical plane, then you can enter into the inner world and meditate...
- Question: How can we strengthen our subtle nerves?
- When you meditate, for a few minutes, say four or five minutes, consciously breathe in and out, inhale...
- Question: How do you find the time to draw, to write, to do everything you do?
- I pray to God and meditate on God....
- Repeat your spiritual name[^25]
- Those who have spiritual names, if you remember the date you received your spiritual name, kindly meditate...
- Question: If someone is always away from the spiritual Centre, what is the best way to keep up with the other disciples?
- It is not always possible to meditate, but you can read and listen to music....
- Editor's preface to the first edition
- The inner law comes to us from our own Inner Pilot, and it is revealed to us through prayer and meditation...
- Joop Koopman: What areas are the greatest challenges in our interfaith relations?
- I have prayed and meditated in silence for a minute or two at these meetings....
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- Inauguration Meditation 14 April 1970....
- Editor's note to cover photo
- In the Prime Minister’s honour, members of the Meditation Group at the United Nations sang a song which...