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- Question: What should I do during meditation?
- Throw them into the consciousness which you observe in my picture during your meditation. … If you keep the place where you meditate pure and spiritual, they will definitely want to meditate at...
- Question: Is your meditation like a religion?
- Sri Chinmoy: No, there is no religion involved. I was born a Hindu and perhaps you were born a Muslim. If we remain all the time in our respective religions, I may say that my Hinduism is the best and you may say that your Islam is the best. Then a third person will come to contradict us both and say, “No, Christianity is the...
- Part II — The mind and the heart in meditation
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- Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations
- 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...
- The mind and the heart in meditation
- O mind's sincerity, you are bound to see
God's Light in the fulness of time.
O heart's purity, you are bound to realise
God's Love at His choice Hour.
- Sri Chinmoy begins with a silent meditation
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- Joel Martin: I pray and I meditate.
- Sri Chinmoy: You pray, and that’s why you have peace of mind and your health is getting better. The last time I came here, you were not well physically. This time you are better, and I am...
- Question: How do you meditate for humility?
- Sri Chinmoy: Try to remember two words: humility and humiliation. Humility and humiliation are like two neighbours. If you are humility, then you look around and see your humiliation-neighbour; but you are not humiliation. Again, if you are humiliation, you look around and see your humility-neighbour; but you are not...
- Collective meditation and the Master: a talk
- This is a collective meditation; that is to say, we all meditate together.
Very often, just for a second during the meditation, the aspirant's soul feels my inner concern, love … So these are the major things that I do during the collective meditation....
- Part III — Collective meditation and the Master: a talk
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- Fourth of July meditation for the Soul of America
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- The Master with three newcomers[^9]
The Master said, "Now we are about to meditate. Sit down and meditate with us. … Come and meditate with us. I will see what we can do for you after our meditation."
The young man said, "I am going to meditate with you here, and at the end of the meditation your Master … "I see you are about to meditate," he said. … But please allow me to meditate....
- Scene 4
- All the seekers have left the place where they were meditating the day before and are meditating in another … The thief, in his ochre cloth, is praying and meditating all alone in the same spot as on the previous … Therefore I put on this ochre cloth and started meditating with the saints and seekers. … world and this paragon of beauty by being false, just by telling lies, then if I tell the truth, if I meditate...
- The answer to world-despair[^17]
- And we learn the art of self-finding only after we have learned the art of meditating, the art of meditating … What we call meditation is nothing other than God-manifestation. … But the meditation which we are going to do right now is bound to give us ninety-nine per cent capacity … Now I wish all of us to meditate only for Light, Love and Delight....
- Question: How can I acquire lasting inner joy?[^208]
- We do not even meditate unconditionally. … When we sit down to meditate, we expect a little light or a little joy. But are we beggars? … If He inwardly asks us to think of Him and meditate on Him, we should do it out of our boundless love … The inner cry that makes us want to pray and meditate has come directly from Him. … If He has given us the capacity to pray and meditate, will He not also give us the capacity to receive...
- Question: Should we also try chanting this mantra?
One day I was meditating downstairs in the main Ashram hall. … That was called the Meditation Hall. There was pin-drop silence. … We were all meditating, about forty or fifty people. … It was half an hour at least before the Mother would come in and I was in a very high meditation. … I was doing a different kind of meditation, totally different....
- Question: What should we do if we have a frightening dream that foretells the death of somebody?
- you should do at that time is try to fight against the possibility of his death through prayer and meditation … Or you can meditate. That will be an even mightier strength. … that spiritual seekers have dreamt that their relatives were going to die and immediately they started meditating … Through your meditation. He will eventually get joy from the event because it belongs to him. … instead of telling the person verbally, try consciously to offer him the joy of the dream through your meditation...
- Intuition
- Through prayer and meditation, we can also develop intuition.
If you want to develop intuition through prayer and meditation, imagine that you are following a road
But if it is difficult for you to develop intuition through prayer and meditation, only appreciate … has intuition, his intuition is infinitely stronger than the intuition of those who do not pray and meditate … But I have to say, why should you pray and meditate in order to acquire intuition?...
- Question: How can we surrender to the Supreme?
- So when we pray, when we meditate, the first thing we should do is get rid of doubts, suspicions and … the spiritual life also, you give a little aspiration, which is your nickel, during your prayer or meditation … But you have to give an iota of aspiration, for five minutes or half an hour of meditation in the morning … You do have a little capacity; you meditate on God for a few minutes each day. … The moment he sees that you are regular in your meditation, that you are sincere and earnest and have...
- Nayan Nehare Bishwa Bhuban
Nayan nehare bishwa bhubanHerena tahar pran
Tai ankhi duti ruddha kariyaJogi kare tar dhyan
Shruti shudhu shune bahirer kathaShunena oishi bani
Sangjata tai shrutire karicheSatya tapasa gyani
Translation
The eye sees the entire worldBut it sees not its own life;
Therefore, keeping the two eyes closed,The Yogi meditates on You,
O Lord Supreme.The ear hears only
The messages and the clamour of the outer world.It hears not the messages
Of the highest Heaven;Therefore, the true seeker of wisdom
Always tries to keep his earsUnder his perfect control.
- Anale Anile Anute Renute
Anale anile anute renuteNehari tomar chhabi
Taba dhyana rup ogo aparupAnkiyachhe kato kabi
Anusari sei mahajan pathLekhani niyechhi hate
Ganthibo baliya ei katha harAjike madhura prate
Jaya jaya jaya parameshwaraJagat gurur jay
E mantra japi karibo amaraBishwa atma jay
Translation
In fire and water,In dust and atoms,
Seeing You, Your Meditation-Trance,Many poets have depicted
Your immortal Beauty.They are my pioneers.
This morning I am weaving the garlandOf soulful words:
Victory, victory, victoryTo the Guru Supreme of the Universe.
Repeating this incantationWe shall conquer the world-soul.
- Nayan Nehare Bishwa Bhuban
Nayan nehare bishwa bhubanHerena tahar pran
Tai ankhi duti ruddha kariyaJogi kare tar dhyan
Shruti shudhu shune bahirer kathaShunena oishi bani
Sangjata tai shrutire karicheSatya tapasa gyani
Translation
The eye sees the entire worldBut it sees not its own life;
Therefore, keeping the two eyes closed,The Yogi meditates on You,
O Lord Supreme.The ear hears only
The messages and the clamour of the outer world.It hears not the messages
Of the highest Heaven;Therefore, the true seeker of wisdom
Always tries to keep his earsUnder his perfect control.
- 36. Editor’s information
- He asked me if I bring down new inspiration and aspiration from above when I conduct meditations at the...
- Interviewer: Does your philosophy demand a disciplined life?
- In the spiritual life also, there is something within us that prompts us to pray and meditate on God...
- Sri Chinmoy: My Indian life is bowing to you, an illumination-soul of Japan, for your supreme blessings.
- you Japan has discovered Benevolence-fulness unparalleled, That sleeplessly shines In your life's meditation-light...
- Meeting with Mitsuo Sato, head priest of the home of the Great Buddha[^2]
- At the end of the concert, he meditated with Head Priest Mitsuo Sato, presenting him with a plaque and...
- Purushottama
- He went very, very deep within and he got a few messages from his meditation....
- Question: How can we avoid making mistakes in our meditation?
- In the spiritual life also, before you become an expert you make many, many mistakes during meditation...
- Question: How does someone become a perfect disciple?
- Sri Chinmoy: In our spiritual life, say in meditation, we are pleasing God, but in our dedication, we...
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- They mentioned that I would be meditating and doing a few other things at the Conference on a particular...