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- Question: In the future, will people always have to aspire like us? Or at some point will people no longer be born on earth?
- You may say, “Oh, I have been meditating for twenty or thirty years, while he has meditated only for … But you do not know that fifty or seventy years ago in his previous incarnation he meditated intensely...
- Question: Some people feel that India's poverty helps her open her heart to spirituality. Is there any truth to this theory?
- once you get ten million dollars, then you will not have to work and you will have plenty of time to meditate … Yes, you will have the time to meditate, but you will only be meditating on your greed....
- Question: Since the Supreme is fully aware of all of our needs, why is it appropriate to pray?
- Meditation, on the other hand, increases our oneness with the Supreme. … Before we meditate, if we pray for a few seconds, then we are developing our intimate connection with … Then, once we start meditating, we are in a position to develop our oneness-reality with Him....
- Scene III
(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: What is the fastest way we can get rid of the ego?
- Through prayer and meditation. … While we are praying, we have to feel that our eyes are streaming with tears, and while we are meditating … One way is to identify ourselves with the soul’s joy and delight in our meditation, and the other way...
- Interviewer: When you talk about peace, are you talking about having no wars, or individual peace?
- From prayer and meditation. … If I get peace from my prayer and meditation, then I will not attack you or anybody else. … And my peace of mind will inspire you also to pray and meditate and acquire peace of mind....
- Question: If somebody has left the spiritual life, is it because the hostile forces grew much stronger than the positive forces?
- The time that I spent praying and meditating saved me for today. … Tomorrow again I shall have to pray and meditate to be safe again tomorrow. … Day by day I shall renew my prayer and meditation.”...
- Question: When we experience our soul, even though we might not be aware of it, why isn't the feeling sweet enough to satisfy us?
- If the person is aspiring and meditating under the guidance of someone who has realised God, even then … When we see a luminous form during our meditation or our sleep, we have to observe whether purity is … I know of many times in India when aspirants have been praying and meditating, and evil forces have come...
- Question: If man, when dissatisfied with the world, escapes the world and seeks out higher planes of existence, how will humanity ever be able to establish peace and happiness on earth?
- Some people want only to meditate. They do not want to give anything to the world. … Again, there are some who want to give but do not want to meditate. This is foolishness. … If we do not meditate, if we do not possess something, then how are we going to give?...
- Question: Can we hear AUM inwardly if we can't say it out loud?
Sometimes during our 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...
- Glimpses from the Vedas and the Upanishads[^4]
- We do it through meditation. … There are various types of meditation: simple meditation, which everybody knows; deep meditation, which … the spiritual seeker knows; and higher or highest meditation, which is the meditation of the soul, in … When an ordinary seeker meditates, he meditates in the mind. … If he is a little advanced, he meditates in the heart....
- Glimpses from the Vedas and the Upanishads
- We do it through meditation. … There are various types of meditation: simple meditation, which everybody knows; deep meditation, which … the spiritual seeker knows; and higher or highest meditation, which is the meditation of the soul, in … When an ordinary seeker meditates, he meditates in the mind. … If he is a little advanced, he meditates in the heart....
- Question: How can we know if it is lack of desire or lack of energy that prevents us from meditating
- Sri Chinmoy: You want to meditate but enthusiasm is lacking.
So every day when you meditate, if at that time you can feel that this is your last day, your last … opportunity to realise God, then you will try to do your best meditation. … You have to accept failure if you fail, but if you sincerely try your hardest to meditate and you don...
- An inner duty and an outer duty[^14]
- I shall be extremely glad and grateful if all the members of the Meditation Group attend the functions
Each member of the United Nations Meditation Group has an inner duty and an outer duty. … Your inner duty is to pray and meditate and your outer duty is to serve and dedicate. … But if we consciously dedicate ourselves to the supreme cause with our aspiration, prayer, meditation...
- Question: I would like to ask you how to develop these processes of meditation?
- feel the necessity of individual concentration, individual attention, then you have to get a personal meditation … The Master will give general meditation instruction in his books; or during his talks he will say, "Make … the mind calm and quiet," or he will give secrets of meditation in general. … But if you want to become closer to the Master, or if you feel that getting a specific meditation from...
- Question: Many great athletes tell of having experiences of higher consciousness in the form of visions of their performances or oneness with the elements. Where do these experiences come from?
- People who pray and meditate most soulfully get tremendous joy while they are praying and meditating. … Praying and meditating itself gives them joy. … God is telling him inwardly that he has to practise spirituality, that he has to pray and meditate and...
- Question: What is the best way of obtaining peace in our inner life and in our outer life?[^144]
- There you may find that some of your colleagues, who have not prayed or meditated, are quarrelling and … And if you had a most powerful meditation early in the morning, the power of your own prayer and meditation … But the peace that we bring to the fore from the inner world through our prayer and meditation is a different...
- Question: How can I trust my discrimination and know what is the right thing to do in my life?[^230]
- You do not have to learn how to meditate in order to be calm and quiet for a few minutes. … case, you not only know that God-realisation is good but you also go one step further: you pray and meditate … Your conscience or your inner being told you that it was good to meditate. … It told you that if you meditated you would attain peace, light and bliss....
- Question: When we have children, how can we best remember the Supreme without letting the children interfere?
- When you get something from the Supreme, from your prayer and meditation, you have to feel that that … Your real task is prayer and meditation. … You have to pray, you have to meditate and you have to teach your children how to pray and meditate....
- Mahavira and the learned pandit
So saying, the pandit followed the crowd to where Mahavira was seated in meditation. … He asked them to pray and meditate, to have more compassion for each and every soul on earth and to renounce … Illumination can only come from prayer and meditation. I want everybody to pray and meditate....
- Question: I would like to ask you, how do you develop these processes of meditation?
- feel the necessity of individual concentration, individual attention, then you have to get a personal meditation … The Master will give general meditation instruction in his books; or during his talks he will say, "Make … the mind calm and quiet," or he will give secrets of meditation in general. … But if you want to become close to a Master, or if you feel that getting a specific meditation from a...
- Question: When we find ourselves encountering difficulties in the spiritual life, is the best thing just to surrender to God's Will and leave it all up to Him?
- The other seeker will pray, meditate and devote his life dynamically to God.
If one is sincere and really aspiring, he prays and meditates in a divine way, according to his capacity … If we can go deep within every day during our meditation, we will become the observer, the witness, Purusha … But if we cannot go deep within every day in our meditation, the next best thing is to act like a hero...
- Question: How can one make meditation practical?
- Meditation. We are practical in our inner life when we pray and meditate. … Through meditation.
The inner life constantly carries the message of Love, Truth and God. … But if we meditate first, and afterwards act and speak, then we are doing the right thing and becoming...
- Having a teacher
- I shall be meditating at the Cathedral. There you will see me meditating and contemplating.
Ian Cairns: And afterwards, how do you continue to meditate? … Meditation you can practise all by yourself or in groups; but if you want to make the most satisfactory...
- Question: Guru, I work in a hospital and sometimes there are people who are terminally ill. What is the best way of dealing with those people?
- At that time, when you meditate, like a miser you meditate only for yourself. … You cannot give the hospital patients even an iota of peace inwardly during your meditation. … But when you are finished with your meditation, then you think of your friends and dear ones....
- Question: In connection with your meditation, do you follow any dietary rules, and if so, what are
- Sri Chinmoy: I do follow some rules of diet in connection with my meditation. … it), because if they eat vegetables, the mild qualities of vegetables will not interfere with their meditation … In our spiritual life, when we meditate, very often we feel an inner agitation or excitement. … Inwardly, you are praying and meditating and concentrating....
- At Sri Aurobindo's Samadhi
- She told me, “Now, most devotedly go there and pray and meditate. … The way you used to meditate in those days, go and meditate. … I meditated at the place where Mother’s message is written....
- Question: Does it matter to the soul whether we meditate every day at the same time?
- Try to be regular always in your meditation and try to be punctual as well. … Each day when you meditate punctually you go one step closer to your goal. … You may think that you have meditated for three months and made so much progress in your spiritual life … spiritual development will remain inside your heart, in your next incarnation or whenever you want to meditate...
- Prayer-Life, Meditation-Life, Contemplation-Life[^5]
- In this prayer room I wish to give a very short talk on Prayer-Life, Meditation-Life and Contemplation-Life … That means each of us has a prayer within us and also something else within, which is called meditation … But when we dive deep within and establish a free access to our life of meditation, we see that we have … The soul reminds us of the necessity of meditation. … In our meditation-life we just become the recipient....
- Question: How can one make meditation practical?
- Sri Chinmoy: How can we make meditation practical? … Meditation. … We are practical in our inner life, we are doing the right thing in our inner life, when we pray and meditate … Through meditation.
The inner life constantly carries the message of Love, Truth and God. … But if we meditate first, and afterwards act and speak, then we are doing the right thing and becoming...