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- Question: That philosophy would have prevented many wars over the years.
- Sri Chinmoy: When you pray and meditate sincerely, you immediately see that God has expanded your heart … If we sincerely pray and meditate, we will never dare to say that ours is the only religion worth following...
- Question: How can we experience the sweetness and purity of Mother Nature when we live in a place like New York?
- You may come to meditate with me, but your mind may be thinking of this person or that person. … So where is your prayer and meditation?...
- Question: But don't you feel it is your responsibility to help all men?
- With them, I feel that my prayer, my concentration, my meditation will be more effective. … Yet, through their meditation, they send a divine vibration to the entire world....
- Heart-throbbing songs[^36]
- [Sri Chinmoy made the following comments after teaching these five songs at the monthly public meditation … (36): WSI 36. 1 June 2007, Seeker Meditation, Aspiration-Ground, Jamaica, New York...
- Question: What do you mean by the Face of God?
- When I hold public meditations in New York, hundreds of people come and in their meditation they feel...
- Question: Tell me about your weightlifting.
- Every day, since my childhood, I have been praying and meditating. … Because of my prayer-life and meditation-life, God, out of His infinite Bounty, has given me inner strength...
- Interviewer: Tell us the purpose of bringing out elephants and lifting them with this machine.
- Sri Chinmoy: I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. … If I can be of some service to mankind by lifting an elephant, then I feel my prayer-life and my meditation-life...
- Question: Through meditation is one able to create or master psychic powers?
- Sri Chinmoy: Through meditation it is possible to get psychic powers, but it depends on the soul whether … Sometimes an aspirant will acquire psychic powers and then not want to pray or meditate any more....
- My path and my songs are inseparable
- These songs I take as part of my meditation, so you also may kindly take my songs as my meditation....
- Proclamation
- of India, who arrived in 1964 in the United States of America and since has founded 60 centers where meditation … and other spiritual skills are taught; and
WHEREAS, Sri Chinmoy, as Director of the United Nations Meditation...
- Question: When I try to meditate, I get a feeling of oceans and waters before my mind's eye. … This creates fear in me, and I cannot meditate very well. … How can I meditate without getting this feeling of oceans and waters?[^5]
- Sri Chinmoy: You will be able to meditate even when the ocean appears before you. … You will be able to meditate most powerfully and most successfully....
- Question: You don't do complicated yoga exercises?
- We pray and meditate; we pray to the Supreme to grant us purity, sincerity, humility and other divine … In our sincere prayer and meditation easily we can get these divine qualities....
- Long Island Spectrum
- Soulful music and meditation are two brothers. They serve the same purpose. Music helps meditation.
Sri Chinmoy: I was meditating. … Meditation is something that we can practise. … If we practise meditation soulfully, and if we become part and parcel of this soulful meditation, then … And is meditation perhaps the answer for them also?
Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is the only answer....
- Question: It seems to me that at the start of the spiritual path we see God with form, and that as we grow into oneness He starts to lose His Form. Is this true?
Real spiritual Masters can easily meditate on the formless — Infinity, Eternity and Immortality. … The mind can never meditate on Infinity; the mind can meditate on a tiny picture, a candle, an incense … When you meditate, it is always better and safer to meditate on the form. … But before realisation, if you meditate on the formless, thinking it is something higher, I tell you … Try to meditate on the formless for two or three days....
- Question: How can one tell the difference between the Will of God and wishful thinking?
- A real aspirant, a sincere seeker, tries to meditate devotedly each day. … And one who meditates devotedly each day will soon have a free access to God’s inner realm and be able
Of course, it is easy to say that you have to meditate devotedly, but actually to meditate devotedly … When you start meditating you have to feel that your very life, your very existence, your very breath … Only in this way can you meditate devotedly and have a devoted feeling towards God....
- A new spiritual adventure
One morning after breakfast the Master said, "Today, instead of going to meditate, we are going to … "O Master, what about our individual meditation? How are we going to make any spiritual progress?" … But, forgive me, I still feel sad that our meditation time will suffer."
"All of you please meditate for a few minutes before you start working. … To be in my consciousness is the best meditation....
- Question: Do you believe that everyone can meditate as you would like people to meditate? … For instance, I have been to meditation classes, and I find it extremely difficult to meditate. … When I meditate, to a certain degree I feel relaxed. But frankly, I feel no more than that.
- Sri Chinmoy: Do you have a teacher, a spiritual Master?
Not really. There is someone I went to who is not a real teacher, not a Guru. Sri Chinmoy: Unfortunately there is the difficulty. You need a spiritual Teacher. You need a personal interview with your Teacher in order to discuss the problems in your spiritual life with...
- Question: What do you think about transcendental meditation which is meditating with the use of a
- Sri Chinmoy: I cannot speak specifically on transcendental meditation as the Maharishi Mahesh uses the...
- Question: What is the significance of meditating on the new moon and meditating on the full moon
- Sri Chinmoy: When you meditate on the full moon, feel that your consciousness is fully blossomed inside … When you meditate on the new moon, at that time you have to feel that one petal has opened, and there
When I was 13 years old one night I was meditating at 2:30 in a garden in front of my house, going...
- Obstacles on the spiritual path
When we become conscious of the divine inner life, when we begin praying and meditating, we realise … At that time, the intensity of the seeker's meditation meets with these earthly desires.
Unconsciously or consciously we allow thoughts to come into us and the intensity of our meditation … worse to cherish it during meditation.
To all seekers I wish to say, at the time of your meditation please be very careful....
- Question: When we are on the spiritual path, when difficulties and desires come forward is it because the Supreme is bringing them to expedite our spiritual progress, or are these just wrong forces which we have to overcome so that we will run faster?
When we become conscious of the divine inner life, when we begin praying and meditating, we realise … At that time, the intensity of the seeker’s meditation meets with these earthly desires.
Unconsciously or consciously we allow thoughts to come into us, and the intensity of our meditation … worse to cherish it during meditation.
To all seekers I wish to say, at the time of your meditation please be very careful....
- Spirituality[^1]
- His meditation tells him that his God is within. … The name of that hero-soldier is meditation. … Some may not know how to meditate immediately. … The art of meditation is something inherent in each individual.
So, meditation is the way to acquire peace of mind....
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- Yesterday was a most significant day both for the members of the United Nations Meditation Group and … The interview lasted for about an hour and for about twenty minutes we meditated together soulfully and … us and accepted the fruits of our prayer and meditation. … He prayed with us and meditated with us and he shared with us wholeheartedly his inner divinity. … Meditation Group meeting at U N....
- Sri Chinmoy visits Puerto Rico
- multifarious activities, playing concerts on his Indian bowed instrument, the esraj, conducting public meditations … , meeting and meditating with various heads of state and prominent figures of Puerto Rico.
24th October: Esraj concert, meditation and question and answer period at the Caguas Sri Chinmoy Centre … Sri Chinmoy planted “The Meditation Tree” in Belgica Park, a park dedicated to educators, where Mayor
That evening Sri Chinmoy conducted a public meditation and esraj concert at the Ponce Museum of Art...
- Scene 3
(She comes to the place where Durvasha is meditating.
DURVASHA (still in a meditative mood, touches the feet of Satyavama): Mother, your compassion is food … Durvasha resumes his deep meditation, and a little later Satyavama returns.)...
- Question: How can you stop yourself from worrying about whether you are having a good meditation
- But in the spiritual life, you have to feel that when you are meditating in front of your Guru there
If you want to show that you are doing a wonderful meditation so that I will be very pleased, at that … So also, at the time of meditation, the point is not to show anything outwardly or inwardly, but to become...
- Question: Guru, what is the purpose of telling you things outwardly? I mean, what do you actually need to know from us outwardly?
- But if you meditate regularly in the morning, that is most important to me. … Did you meditate? If you have meditated, then I know you are fulfilling God....
- Question: Can we hear AUM inwardly if we can't say it out loud?
- Sometimes during meditation seekers hear the sound of AUM although nobody is chanting it aloud. … This means that inwardly somebody has chanted or is chanting AUM and the meditation room has preserved
If you want to meditate while you are in some public place where there are all kinds of noise, what...
- Saved by my Mother Kali
- our Brooklyn apartment, somebody left the candles burning on the shrine by mistake after the Centre meditation … I ran into the meditation room. By that time the fire was very serious. The whole place was ablaze. … Many years later, Mahavishnu made the throne in my meditation room and he put that picture of Mother...
- Question: In our meditation, can we consciously invoke our soul? And if so, how?
- Sri Chinmoy: In your meditation you can consciously invoke your soul and bring its presence to the fore … This is the easiest way: when you start meditating, feel that you do not have the body, you do not have … When you are in a very deep meditative mood, all of you cherish me, your Guru. Why?...