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- Question: What must I do to meditate correctly? … Chidananda tells me many things about meditation, but sometimes I concentrate too much on something and … this concentration is much too difficult for meditation.
- After you have meditated for two or three minutes, please try to imagine that petal by petal the rose … Then your meditation is over.
This is absolutely the best meditation for you. … Do not meditate more than fifteen minutes at a time: in the morning fifteen minutes, in the evening fifteen … minutes and during the day if you want to meditate, two or three minutes, but not more....
- Conquering thoughts
- thought or wrong thought enters into your mind, your aspiration must cut it to pieces, because during meditation … But during meditation, if any undivine thought comes, the power of your meditation enlarges and intensifies
There is something practical you can do if you are bothered by thoughts during your meditation.
One method of meditation you can use, particularly if your mind is restless, is called "mantra."...
- The inner role of the United Nations[^13]
- You have just observed me praying and meditating. … Prayer and meditation are of supreme importance if we are to execute the inner role of the United Nations … Perhaps some of you know that twice a week we pray and meditate at the United Nations in New York. … time to time I give spiritual talks, soulful talks, which are perfectly in tune with our prayer and meditation … Here, by virtue of our prayer and meditation, we have come to realise that duty is nothing other than...
- Question: How can I transform or incorporate into my meditation sounds from outside?
- Sri Chinmoy: In the beginning it is not advisable for seekers to incorporate outer sounds into their meditation … So in the spiritual life a beginning seeker should meditate in a quiet place if at all possible. … Right now it will be impossible for you to incorporate extraneous sounds into your meditation. … Your meditation will be no meditation....
- Question: Does the body have to be perfect in order to be a perfect instrument of the soul?[^219]
- We become aware of our inner life only through prayer and meditation.
Suppose we want to meditate in the morning. … If we are physically weak, if we have a headache or some other ailment, then how will we be able to meditate … beneficial, but if we do Indian exercises, asanas, we get a special kind of relaxation that helps in meditation
But as long as we continue to pray and meditate, our inner capacities will go on increasing until...
- Question: Can Pratyahara be practised independently of other sadhanas?
- Pratyahara is withdrawal from the sense-life; Dharana is fixation of the consciousness on God; Dhyana is meditation … We do not have to go through the Hatha Yoga asanas and Pranayama in order to enter into meditation. … If we have aspiration, we can start with concentration, meditation and contemplation. … That road is the path of concentration, deep meditation and one-pointed contemplation. … They meditate with me, and they have high, sublime experiences without all the preceding disciplines....
- Pass your Master's test
- One day the Master was meditating with about fifty of his disciples. … He saw the disciples meditating very devotedly on their Master, and he decided to meditate with them. … Being with me is the best meditation. … Being with the Master is a far better meditation than staying at home and doing your individual meditation … The Master or your own meditation?...
- Part I — Meditation: pathway to the inner world
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- Part VI — The height and depth of meditation
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- Questions on opportunity: Orange County Meditation Group (California)
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- Your prayers and meditations will work
- Your prayers and meditations for your son will work! Is your wife interested in our path?...
- The real success of the Master and disciples
- After the group settled for meditation, they noticed that the Master was nowhere to be found. … forest inspired them to go deep within, and each individual tried to have his best meditation. … After the meditation, the Master told his disciples that he was very pleased with their meditation. … Then when I start meditating and enter into my highest consciousness, you immediately see how I raise
"Meditating in your physical presence makes all the difference," the young boy said....
- Interviewer: What about meditation techniques? … What do you suggest people use as a method of meditation?
- If hatred enters into my mind while I am meditating, I will try to replace it with love....
- Question: When I meditate, there is something that holds me back so that I cannot meditate.
- Sri Chinmoy: The thing that holds you back is fear and this fear has no meaning at all. If you want the wealth which the ocean holds deep inside itself, you have to dive within. Fear and wealth don’t go together. Only if you have inner courage, can you receive the inner wealth. It is fear of the unknown and the unknowable that...
- Question: Suppose you are so tired that you can't meditate, but if you slept longer and meditated … an hour later, you could meditate.
- If you say that for months you have meditated at a particular hour and one morning you are tired, all...
- Scene 6
- (Dhruva is in deep meditation. His whole being is meditating on the lotus-feet of Lord Vishnu. … VISHNU: My dearest, my fondest child Dhruva, I am the object of your prayer, I am the object of your meditation … It was she who advised you to pray to God; it was she who inspired you to come into the forest and meditate … I bring before you the seven sages who inspired you, who helped you, who taught you how to pray and meditate … It is your prayer and meditation that has brought our Lord Vishnu here....
- Question: I have tried to meditate on your picture in the morning for about three months, but I don't … think that I am even approaching meditation.
- I do not agree with these opinions, but if you insist that they are true, then please meditate on some … Any picture of me wearing my dhoti, taken in any Centre, is good for you to meditate on. … If you feel that in some other picture I am not indifferent, then meditate on that one. … I tell my disciples to meditate on my transcendental picture, but if after two or three months you are … Since there are hundreds of other pictures, please select one that will help you in meditation....
- Contemplation in the Hindu tradition[^8]
There are three private tutors for those who practise spirituality: concentration, meditation and … The meditation-tutor teaches the seeker how to feel God soulfully and sleeplessly in the inmost recesses … But concentration, meditation and contemplation all demand patience. … We cannot acquire, let alone master, the art of concentration, meditation and contemplation overnight … There are many seekers here and elsewhere who think that they can learn concentration, meditation and...
- Contemplation in the Hindu tradition[^100]
There are three private tutors for those who practise spirituality: concentration, meditation and … The meditation-tutor teaches the seeker how to feel God soulfully and sleeplessly in the inmost recesses … But concentration, meditation and contemplation all demand patience. … We cannot acquire, let alone master, the art of concentration, meditation and contemplation overnight … There are many seekers here and elsewhere who think that they can learn concentration, meditation and...
- Responsibility human and responsibility divine
- He may say, “This moment you don’t have to pray and meditate. … If the Supreme wants you to meditate at a particular time and at that moment your wife is doing selfless … service, you can’t say your meditation or her selfless service is by far the best. … If you do her job, selfless service, when God wants you to do meditation, who is getting a good result … If God at this moment wants us to meditate, we shall meditate....
- Sleep and the dream world
- If we see that we have the capacity or the need to help someone in his meditation or elevate his consciousness
There are many seekers who meditate every day and then sleep at night. … Just because they have meditated during the whole day, God is pleased with them and God says to them, … During the day, you have prayed, meditated. … But if during the day we don’t pray and meditate, God will never ask the higher beings, the higher forces...
- The river of time waits for nobody
- We have to pray and meditate as soon as possible. … He renounced his earthly possessions and entered into the forest to pray to God and meditate on God. … Any time you get up is the right time for you to meditate. That theory is excellent in its own way. … Then I could have done a longer, more beautiful and more fruitful meditation." … You feel that God will be more pleased with you because you will be able to meditate for a longer time...
- Question: Concentration and meditation give us certain power, even if we are not looking for it.
- Sri Chinmoy: In the course of his meditation, when one knows how to meditate well, naturally he gets … What happens when you get power from your meditation is that the power comes and possesses you; power … The spiritual power that you get during your meditation, I wish you to collect it and hold it....
- Question: How can we best utilise our outer time to better our inner aspiration?
- When you pray, concentrate and meditate, you have to feel that each second is infinitely more important … This second you can use either for meditation or for gossip or for cherishing impure and undivine thoughts
Now, when you have prayed, meditated and played your part in the spiritual life, if realisation is … So to come back to your question, if you aspire consciously, and if you consciously pray and meditate...
- Question: If human beings knew about their former incarnations, wouldn't they be better in this incarnation?
In the same way, many thoughts will come to you when you are praying and meditating. … But if you continue to meditate and pay no attention to these thoughts, eventually the bad thoughts will … They will say, "He is praying and meditating and trying to reach the Highest. … Today you can try to meditate for another two or three hours and keep a direct connection with the previous...
- Can you tell me where there is no God?
- Nanak always used to think of God and meditate on God. He only wanted to mix with spiritual people. … Nanak was praying and meditating all the time. … So he became a mendicant and went to many places to pray and meditate. … He used to go wherever he could find a place to meditate....
- Question: What is the most effective way to see the divine in others?
Many times we have good feelings about our brother and sister disciples during high meditation, for … example, but that meditation we don't preserve or make dynamic. … We have a good meditation but then we forget about it. … But instead we should try to start with that same experience the next time we meditate....
- Question: Can you speak more on concentration?
- Sri Chinmoy: There are three steps in the spiritual life: concentration, meditation and contemplation … We may meditate for ten hours, but we will not get any satisfactory result. … Once he has achieved the power of concentration, then meditation becomes extremely easy. … And when one has the capacity to do deeper and higher meditation, then contemplation becomes easy....
- "Fulfilling a New Year's resolution"[^4]
- have received everything that I brought down today, then I tell you, for six months you don’t have to meditate
During the New Year’s meditation I really bring down. … People used to meditate for years to get a little light. … After holding his Public Meditation for the New Year on 19 December 1975, Sri Chinmoy offered these remarks...
- Question: When we are angry and feel annoyance with other people, what is the best way to deal with it?
- But when you meditate, what do you expect? Peace, Light, Delight and Power. … But every day if you can meditate for ten or fifteen minutes only on Peace, if you concentrate on His … If you have already acquired abundant peace from your meditation, then you will see that your peace,
So please meditate daily for at least ten minutes on God’s aspect of Peace....