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Editor's note to cover photo
During the programme Ambassador Thomas said, “In my opinion, the period that is observed by the Meditation...
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 37
Question: Perhaps just wanting to communicate with others could be called or named the belief in God.
We can commune with our soul through meditation....
From the book Realisation-Soul and Manifestation-Goal
My statues in many parts of the world
When I was meditating on him and offering him my love and gratitude, he said it would take only one hundred...
From the book The Path of my Inner Pilot
I
svaḥ tát savitúr váreṇ(i)yaṃ bhárgo devásya dhīmahi dhíyo yó naḥ prachodáyāt

Translation

“We meditate...

From the book AUM — Vol. 8, No. 4, November 1972
God-embrace[^2]
I fasted to realise God; Therefore God laughed at my earth-life Of stupidity.

I cried to realise God; Therefore God smiled at my Heaven-life Of necessity.

I prayed to realise God; Therefore God appreciated my earth-life Of sincerity.

I meditated to realise God; Therefore God embraced my Heaven-life Of reality. (2): AUM 1165. Poems 1-100 were written on Pan Am flight 100 from New York to London on 21 June, in London and in Cambridge, England.

From the book AUM — Vol 1, No. 7, 27 July 1974
The Gayatri Mantra
It means, we meditate or we contemplate on the Supreme Intelligence to endow us with the Supreme Knowledge...
From the book AUM — Vol. 8, No. 8, March 1973
Your regularity helps others

"Master" said one disciple, "many disciples feel that they can meditate just as well at home." … Sometimes I see you watching others while they are standing up in front of the group meditating. … They may not be having as high a meditation as you are, but even then you get inspiration from them. … You may be the worst meditator, but if you meditate well for even one second, at that moment some spiritual … While you are meditating in your seat you are spreading love waves, divine waves of light....

From the book Love-power and gratitude-flower
Question: I'm trying to have faith in all that you are saying. But if it is true, why don't I feel these things inside me? Why don't I feel light and peace inside?
say, there are many things which you may not feel, but which I am aware of, because I have prayed and meditated … In the spiritual life you have to pray and meditate soulfully, and have faith in what you have heard … 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....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 5, May 1980
Contemplation in action[^5]
These friends are concentration, meditation and contemplation.

Next the seeker’s meditation-friend comes to help him. … And eventually meditation gives the seeker peace in infinite measure. … On the strength of his soulful meditation, the seeker becomes supremely receptive. … When the seeker meditates, the world adores his soulful heart....

From the book Sound and silence, part 2
Contemplation in action[^97]
These friends are concentration, meditation and contemplation.

Next the seeker’s meditation-friend comes to help him. … And, eventually, meditation gives the seeker peace in infinite measure. … On the strength of his soulful meditation, the seeker becomes supremely receptive. … When the seeker meditates, the world adores his soulful heart....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 3
I want only one student: heart [A short story]
He had answered thousands of questions but now he did not even meditate before the public. … begged him to resume his previous practice of giving talks, answering questions and holding public meditations … 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, but instead of for two hours, this time he went on for four hours....
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Life[^7]
So we pray and meditate to bring to the fore the inner world and replace the outer world with it. … , for liberation we can achieve only through proper meditation.

What is meditation? … Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. … Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss....

From the book My Rose Petals, part 7
Question: If we set a specific time for our morning meditation, do you feel disappointed if we sometimes
Sri Chinmoy: When I meditate on you, I do not depend on your getting up. … My meditation is unconditional. … When I meditate on you, I don’t hope that you will get up early in the morning at your scheduled time … But if you do meditate on time, then you become conscious of what I am doing.

So if you are not up meditating at your specific time, I will be sad, but only in a human way....

From the book Experiences of the higher worlds
Meeting with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on 16 July 1976
Sri Chinmoy presented Mr Waldheim with a plaque engraved with the United Nations Meditation Group motto … While looking through the Meditation Group Songbook, which had also been given to him, the Secretary-General

At Sri Chinmoy’s request, the Secretary-General then invited the members of the Meditation Group to

Ms France Vacher presented the Secretary-General with the banner of the United Nations Meditation … It was signed by “Sri Chinmoy and the Members of the United Nations Meditation Group.”...

From the book A soulful tribute to the Secretary-General: the Pilot Supreme of the United Nations
Question: You must be very tired after lifting all that weight?
Question: Can other people, if they meditate, lift like you do? Sri Chinmoy: Definitely! … Question: How often do you meditate? Is it all the time? … Sri Chinmoy: I meditate for quite a few hours during the night. … I have a few thousand students all over the world and I meditate mostly on them. … Since my childhood I have been meditating and now my own meditation has become spontaneous....
From the book Conversations with Sri Chinmoy
Scene 2

COSMIC GOD: You will have to pray and meditate to get that boon. Stay here; pray and meditate. … You pray and meditate here. … I shall do nothing but pray and meditate until you come back again....

From the book The heart of a holy man
energy and I can't seem to stop it, and I just end up with a headache and a stiff neck, and I lose my meditation
But I am still praying and meditating, still crying for Peace, Light and Bliss, and now you are not allowing … As long as it allows you to meditate, you don't have to worry. … The mother will threaten the child and say, "I am still praying, I am meditating. … the child will sleep in his mother's lap, and the mother will go on with her own work, praying and meditating...
From the book Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Question: Do you have any practical suggestions for athletics, especially for the workers at the restaurant?
When you become conscious of God’s Presence, you pray and meditate in order to realise God. … So while you are working at the restaurant, you will pray, you will meditate. … While you are working, you can inwardly meditate, not outwardly. … If you start meditating outwardly, everything will be burnt....
From the book Aspiration-Glow and Dedication-Flow, part 2
"Steal my heart!"
Then they asked me many, many questions on prayer, meditation and various aspects of the spiritual life … path was not meant for everyone in the church, I said, “Each person may kindly pass by me slowly, in a meditative … I shall meditate on each person.”

After meditating briefly on each person, I saw that seventy or eighty were definitely meant to be...

From the book The power of kindness and other stories
Forgiveness[^16]

My Lord Beloved Supreme, I do not meditate on You. Yet You forgive me. … By not thinking of Me, by not praying to Me, by not meditating on Me, by not serving Me, by not loving … p>"My child, do not be sad that you do not think of Me, that you do not pray to Me, that you do not meditate … Then you will think of Me sleeplessly, pray to Me breathlessly, meditate on Me soulfully, serve Me self-givingly...

From the book My Heart's Peace-Offering
Exercising and dieting[^5]
At that time, I am meditating and meditating. … I am meditating. When you walk or jog, you, too, can meditate....
From the book Walking-challenging-becoming, part 2
Vegetarian diet
Question: In connection with your meditation, do you follow any dietary rules? … Our nerves become agitated; they become restless and aggressive, and this can interfere with our meditation … Inwardly, we are praying and meditating; outwardly, the food we are taking from Mother Earth is helping … But along with a vegetarian diet, one must pray and meditate....
From the book Sri Chinmoy primer
Question: I find that when I eat meat I cannot meditate very well; I feel restless.
When you aspire properly, concentrate properly, meditate properly, you will be able to draw this inner … That energy comes from meditation and aspiration as well as from proper nourishment. … The strength you get from aspiration and meditation is infinitely more powerful than the strength you … You are practising meditation most sincerely and most devotedly....
From the book The body, humanity’s fortress
Question: Guru, when you ask us to watch a video of you lifting weights, if we watch you instead of the video, is it wrong?
When I am meditating, I do request you to meditate and look at me. … When I am seriously meditating, that is the static aspect. … It is because I want you to identify with my determination, with my will power, with my meditation, with...
From the book Only gratitude-tears
Question: I find that when I eat meat I cannot meditate very well; I feel restless.
When you aspire properly, meditate properly, you will be able to draw this inner food into your body. … That energy comes from meditation and aspiration as well as from proper nourishment. … The strength you get from aspiration and meditation is infinitely more powerful than the strength you … You are practising meditation most sincerely and most devotedly....
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Jishu Jishu Nam

Jishu Jishu namJapi abiram

Jishu chetanaiPran dube jai

Jishu sabakarPitar dharar

Translation

Jesus, Jesus!Sleeplessly and breathlessly

I repeat the Name of Lord Jesus.Deep I dive

In His Consciousness Universal.He is the Father of the world.

For all He is.The second version of translation:

We meditate on the Christ.We repeat His Name countless times.

Without the Christ Consciousness,Our life is totally lost.

Christ is for all.He is our Divinity’s Son

And humanity's Father.

From the book One Thousand Lotus Petals, part 2
We Believe
We believe and we hold that each man has the potentiality of reaching the Ultimate Truth. We also believe that man cannot and will not remain imperfect forever. Each man is an instrument of God. When the hour strikes, each individual soul listens to the inner dictates of God. When man listens to God, his imperfections are turned into perfections, his ignorance into knowledge, his searching mind into revealing light and his uncertain reality into all-fulfilling Divinity. [Motto of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations]
From the book Chandelier, part 1
Jishu Jishu Nam

Jishu Jishu namJapi abiram

Jishu chetanaiPran dube jai

Jishu sabakarPitar dharar

Translation

Jesus, Jesus!Sleeplessly and breathlessly

I repeat the Name of Lord Jesus.Deep I dive

In His Consciousness Universal.He is the Father of the world.

For all He is.The second version of translation:

We meditate on the Christ.We repeat His Name countless times.

Without the Christ Consciousness,Our life is totally lost.

Christ is for all.He is our Divinity’s Son

And humanity's Father.

From the book Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 5
Jishu Jishu Nam

Jishu Jishu namJapi abiram

Jishu chetanaiPran dube jai

Jishu sabakarPitar dharar

Translation

Jesus, Jesus!Sleeplessly and breathlessly

I repeat the Name of Lord Jesus.Deep I dive

In His Consciousness Universal.He is the Father of the world.

For all He is.The second version of translation:

We meditate on the Christ.We repeat His Name countless times.

Without the Christ Consciousness,Our life is totally lost.

Christ is for all.He is our Divinity’s Son

And humanity's Father.

From the book Jesus the Seeker, Christ the Saviour
My songs for the Mother and for Sri Aurobindo[^13]
Bhagaban Sri Aurobindo] I composed while looking at the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s portraits in the main meditation...
From the book Only one power
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Books found: 17

Meditation
The meditation-world
Concentration, meditation, contemplation
Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
The hour of meditation
My meditation-heart
Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
The mind and the heart in meditation
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow's Noon
Fifty-Four Morning Prayer-Cries and Morning Meditation-Smiles
My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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