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- Question: On my job as a tour guide I find it difficult to stay in my best consciousness. I listen to what people are saying and I am affected by what they say. How can I keep my consciousness high in a situation like this?
- Sri Chinmoy: Your actual meditation needs to be stronger and more solid so that your consciousness will … When you are in deep meditation at the Centre, people are not talking; yet if you look at somebody near...
- Question: Is meditation a dialogue between the mind of man and God?
- In profound meditation, the Absolute Supreme tells the seeker what to do. … When you are meditating, you remain where you are but, like a magnet, you pull the Eternal Pilot, the...
- Question: When should a child start meditating?
- Sri Chinmoy: A child should start meditating the day he can utter a syllable. … When the parents have unruly children, disobedient children, they should meditate beside the children...
- Question: Would you have any message for coaches who are training athletes?
- But if they pray and meditate along with their students while the students are performing, they can help … Coaches should practise the prayer-life and meditation-life and also encourage their students to do the...
- Question: Why is it that sometimes I can't see you clearly inwardly when I meditate on you?
- Sri Chinmoy: You cannot see me clearly sometimes because your meditation is not high. … So here also, when you continuously pray and meditate, you become an expert....
- Question: Can a seeker live in vast expansion of mind, or is this possible only for a realised soul?
- Chinmoy: Vast expansion of mind the aspirant can have for a few minutes when he is in a very high, deep meditation … When we are meditating, we always try to go beyond the mind....
- Question: One can obtain peace for a moment but then when he goes out from here, he will go back to the same hustle of human life.
- But if he meditates for long hours and establishes this practice firmly, then he will get durable results … But if you can enter into the deepest world and stay there for some time during your meditation, a day...
- Sri Chinmoy's arrival in the West, 13 April 1964
- This was heard after a special meditation.
In New York, a significant meditation also started the program....
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PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, The Honorable Sri Chinmoy of India, Director of the Meditation … United Nations has travelled to many parts of the globe, presenting his most beautiful and exceptional meditations...
- Current biography[^1]
- Since 1964 Sri Chinmoy has been living in New York City, where he conducts meditations twice weekly in … Meditating for increasingly longer periods daily, he eventually reached the habitual meditation state … Three collections of his lectures and meditations were published in 1970: Meditations: Food for the Soul … When the popularity of the meditations became established, the United Nations Meditation Group was formally … If I know how to meditate, I will automatically discipline my physical body.”...
- A Spiritual Lifter
- Chinmoy uses meditation to heave 1,300 pounds
By Damian Cristodero
Sri Chinmoy sat quietly during … His strength, he said, comes from an inner power brought to the fore by deep meditation. … is one key to good meditation. … For 60 to 90 minutes, Chinmoy, a vegetarian, will meditate, followed by a rigorous exercise program. … Now, he said, athletics and meditation are intertwined. "As I got into it I saw a change in myself....
- Question: Can you describe our inner aspiration and how we can share it with others?
When we meditate, that means that we have gone higher. … The moment we come out of the meditation room and see our family and friends, we have a feeling of oneness … When we receive some Light during our meditation we feel happy....
- Question: Yesterday when I was meditating, I got a message from the silence which said, "Love one … When we get this kind of message in our meditation, should we meditate on it and take it into ourselves
- Sri Chinmoy: When we get a message in our mind during meditation, we have to know whether it is in the
Suppose you are meditating and after a few minutes there comes to your mind a thought which is divine … Let us say that during your meditation you get a thought about sacrifice, that you will sacrifice something...
- Question: When we come to meditate with you, we get Light.
- If you can maintain your inner connection with this divine consciousness until your early morning meditation … If you can keep it safe until your next serious meditation, then you are totally free from the possibility … has to be maintained through inspiration or through your conscious inner awareness until your next meditation...
- Question: How can one describe to a small child spiritual feelings which tend to be abstract, as opposed to beauty which a child can receive with the senses?
- For meditation he has to sit calmly and quietly. … When he sits like that, immediately he will begin to feel that he is meditating. … If he identifies himself with prayer or meditation, he feels peace, joy, love and so on....
- The greatest of all Masters
- I said, “I don’t want to meditate in the dark. Definitely I need better light.”
I meditated for a short time, played the esraj and sang two or three songs. … While Uttama was drawing cosmic energy onto the stage, I was meditating very powerfully....
- Vyasa's request[^10]
- son, do you not think that he will leave the house and roam along the street, praying, chanting and meditating … After being initiated by you, if my son roams around the world chanting and meditating on the supreme … If he is meditating on the omnipresent and omniscient Lord, then I will never miss him....
- A chronology of goodwill: meetings and correspondence with the Secretaries-General[^5]
Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar meditates with Sri Chinmoy on 13 January 1983, remarking later
"In your meditation you see beyond the superficial distinctions of race, sex, language or religion … During the nearly twenty years that Sri Chinmoy and the Peace Meditation group have been offering programmes...
- Question: When we come to meditate with you, you give us Light.
- If you can maintain your inner connection with this divine consciousness until your early morning meditation … If you can keep it safe until your next serious meditation, then you are totally free from the possibility … has to be maintained through inspiration or through your conscious inner awareness until your next meditation...
- Question: What is gratitude?
- student quoted one of my aphorisms: “One second of gratitude to God is worth three hours of intense meditation … He thought that it meant that just to say “Thank you” for one second was worth several hours of meditation … Otherwise, I will not say that one second of gratitude is equal to three hours of meditation....
- Question: Are there paths to God-realisation that have never been revealed on earth?
- One way is to conquer sleep: just meditate, meditate, meditate....
- Question: For a long time people have been meditating for the good of humanity, but there does not … Do you feel that meditation can expedite world-progress?[^74]
- In the spiritual life also, one has to practise meditation for many years in order to achieve liberation
Similarly, just because we cannot maintain our peace of mind every day, we must not give up meditation … If we continue to pray and meditate, there shall come a day when instead of inner and outer conflict,...
- Sir, when did you come upon the thought that there is an inner Self within yourself? And after you discovered that you had an inner Self, how did you make a connection with other people who were not aware that they had an inner Self?
- But if you want to establish a bridge with him, what you can do during your meditation or concentration … And then consciously, during your meditation, throw them into him: into his mind, into his body, into … So first within yourself, just like watering a plant every day, feed your inner being by meditation....
- Question: What is the quickest way to overcome lethargy permanently?
- When you want to conquer lethargy, that is not the time for you to enter into deep meditation; only let … If you enter into a higher type of meditation or prayer and are trying to be dynamic, you may succeed … ; but when the prayer or meditation is over, the dynamism will disappear....
- Russell Wilson: How do I go to the heart?
When you are meditating, if you happen to look at your shoulder or your knee, please say to yourself … If you have a good thought during your meditation, then immediately inside that good thought try to feel
[There is a long, silent pause as Sri Chinmoy meditates.] You have a very beautiful heart....
- Jim Smith: You're obviously using all your previous spiritual training.
- Before each lift I concentrate, pray and meditate for at least three or four minutes. … I do one heavy lift, and then again I meditate and invoke God’s Blessings and Protection. … I pray and meditate and concentrate, and when I feel that I am inwardly energised, I try to lift....
- Question: What should be the approach of the aspirant to the concept of the Supreme?
- feel the supreme concept as that of infinite Consciousness or infinite Light or infinite Power, he can meditate … within, you get an inner urge to see the Supreme as a personal Being, try to approach Him or try to meditate … Again, if you feel you will be happy to see Him in His impersonal aspect, then meditate on the impersonal...
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- Pray and meditate. … Meditate on God. Meditate on Truth. You will attain Peace, Joy and Bliss....
- In memory of U Thant. [^1]
We, the members of the United Nations Meditation Group, have a special place for our beloved brother
I wish to invite those seekers from the United Nations Meditation Group who would like to offer their … memory of U Thant at the chapel of the Church Centre for the United Nations during the regular weekly meditation...
- Question: When I am working for you and assuming a position of responsibility, how can I avoid problems from myself, my own negative qualities, or from other people?
In terms of Eternity, Infinity and Immortality, God is asking us to meditate soulfully for only a … Eternity’s Wealth, Infinity’s Wealth, Immortality’s Wealth, and in return He is asking us to pray and meditate … His Infinity and Eternity we are buying for a few years of soulful prayer and meditation....