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- Question: Guru, you said if we wish to serve the world we must have the proper attitude. Could you explain please what that attitude is.
- We have been sitting here meditating for half an hour; we may not have seen the golden Face of God, but … In order to serve God in man and man in God, the first thing we have to do is pray and meditate. … When we meditate, inside our meditation we will find the divine message or command, and we will also … If we discard prayer and meditation and become world-lovers, philanthropists, we are making a mistake … If through our meditation we see God and feel His Presence, then naturally we shall care for mankind....
- Question: Can you tell us how a beginner can meditate on an aphorism like the one you just read out
- Today's meditation was:
I need an illumined mind to study God's entire Life. … Then you will see that you are meditating on something sublime. … Meditation can be done in this way for the beginner. … This is the first way of entering into meditation. … Gradually the time will come when you will have no thoughts, no ideas, no mind during your meditation...
- Question: How can we be sincere with ourselves so we can see more clearly how we are progressing?
- But I know that there is not a single disciple who has never had a good meditation. … During these two years, he cannot tell me that he hasn't had one good meditation. He has. … If he has had one good, high meditation, then I tell you that in the depth of that meditation, his good … During his days of good meditation, I tell you that the Supreme in him has brought forward his divine … When you have the highest meditation, on the one hand you will feel that you are very near to God....
- Question: During concentration and meditation, what kind of practical things can I do to see the
- Here I wish to say that concentration is practical; meditation is practical. … Meditation is also something natural in your life. … Feel that when you do not meditate, you are doing something unnatural, abnormal, unusual, because inside … The preparation is your pure concentration, your pure meditation. … You don’t have to meditate for four hours or ten hours. No!...
- Perfection-goal
- Man’s meditation on perfection is his wisdom. … We have to meditate. Aspiration includes meditation. … When we meditate, we have to feel that we are entering into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality.
Then, when we become advanced in our meditation, when meditation starts offering us its fruits, we … They have to swim in the sea of meditation....
- Question: Could you comment on the different methods of attaining liberation corresponding to the different ages?
- If we are meditating, where has this capacity come from? It has come directly from God. … So many people here on earth are not meditating, but we are meditating. … Our meditation is a gift of God’s Grace. … Let us pray, let us meditate, let us do everything to increase our aspiration. … We shall pray and meditate, and He who has given us the power to pray and meditate will undoubtedly give...
- Scene 1
- Maitreyi only wastes her time in fruitless meditation.
YAGNYAVALKYA: Katyayani, my dear, Maitreyi’s meditation is not fruitless. … Nor does she waste time when she meditates.
MAITREYI: My Lord, I wish to meditate for a few minutes. Will you kindly join me?
(Yagnyavalkya and Maitreyi meditate together. Meditation over, Yagnyavalkya blesses Maitreyi.)...
- Maitreyi —- a play
- Maitreyi only wastes her time in fruitless meditation.
Y: Katyayani, my dear, Maitreyi’s meditation is not fruitless. … She does not waste time in meditation either. … Exit Katyayani M: My Lord, I wish to meditate for a few minutes. Will you kindly join me?
Both Yagnyavalka and Maitreyi meditate together. Meditation over, Yagnyavalka blesses Maitreyi....
- A very dear friend at the United Nations[^10]
- After the meditation, the disciple would drive him all the way back to Brooklyn. … Now I shall encourage him to come once a month to our meditations with his son....
- Question: Does the Guru play the role of inspiration or aspiration in the disciple?
- I aspire when I meditate on you in the morning in a secret way, an occult way. … Of course, when I am meditating, your aspiration increases....
- Question: How can we spiritually heal injuries?
- But you have to do this consciously during your meditation. … Again, if it is beyond your capacity to ignore the pain, in addition to praying and meditating, you can...
- To you my heart of infinite gratitude
- for a few days and asked his dear disciple Ramdas to remain seated at a particular place and continue meditating … For five or six days Ramdas meditated day and night until his Master returned....
- Princess Diana's inner hunger
- In my own humble way, I try to serve the world according to my capacity through my prayer-life and meditation-life … At the age of four, I started praying and meditating....
- Question: Will the process of striving for perfection ever come to an end?
- We start with inspiration, and from there we begin to concentrate, meditate and contemplate. … And these three words — concentration, meditation, contemplation — are included in one word: aspiration...
- 30. Question: Is Peace the child of divine Love?
- If we pray to God or meditate on God in our vital life, then when divine Love descends from above, our … But when we meditate in the physical world, that is to say in our gross physical body which can be restless...
- Question: What is gratitude?[^177]
- The aphorism says, “One second of gratitude to God is worth three hours of intense meditation on God. … He thought it meant that just saying “thank you” for one second was worth several hours of meditation...
- Question: You are a vegetarian. Is being a vegetarian essential in the spiritual life?
- or other parts of our being are restless and aggressive, then we cannot have powerful and peaceful meditations … qualities of the vegetable kingdom will enter into us and we will find it easier to have high and deep meditations...
- Question: How do we know what plane of consciousness we are in during meditation?
- An ordinary aspirant will not be able to know in which plane of consciousness he abides during his meditation … the spiritual ladder, will be able to see easily in which plane of consciousness he stays during his meditation...
- Question: I feel a trembling in the head during meditation.
- But when you pray and meditate, the reality that will come into your pure heart can never cause any trouble … But if we don’t pray and meditate, then we will not feel that the unknown is encouraging and illumining...
- Question: What is the most effective way to get rid of wrong identification with the body, mind or senses?
- When we pray, when we meditate, we must try to identify with the heart, which is crying for truth, for … If you can touch the heart with your prayer and meditation, you are bound to be freed from the body-consciousness...
- Photographs from Peace Concert dedicated to Mother Teresa
- programme held at the United Nations in 1975, indicating where Mother Teresa was seated during his opening meditation
Members of the choir of the Peace Meditation group sing three of Sri Chinmoy’s songs that they...
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- There are many ways to bring about world peace, but we feel our way is the way of prayers and meditations … Our prayers and meditations are helping us to
arrive at the destined goal, and this goal is a universal...
- Our prayerful, soulful, humble efforts[^22]
- There are many ways to bring about world peace, but our way is the way of prayers and meditations. … Our prayers and our meditations are helping us to arrive at the destined goal, and this goal is a universal...
- Question: How can I make my inner cry more sincere?
- When you feel helpless, you will feel that the right thing is to pray and meditate. … You will not try to make yourself miserable and helpless so that you can have a good meditation, but...
- Question: Is the earth planet like a final stage for perfection? Do we have to go through the other planets first and then come here?
- You do not meditate there or do anything to further your spiritual evolution.
This is the world where you have aspiration and where you practise meditation....
- Question: How does someone go about meditating if he has never done it before? … How is he going to start meditating? What sort of steps should he take and what should he expect?
You have to go to a spiritual Teacher who can show you how to meditate. … also, one who has got inner knowledge will be able to help you in studying the inner subject, which is meditation...
- Scene 1
INDRA: O King, on this land hundreds of sages have meditated and prayed. … Here they have performed their rituals; they have meditated on God.
KURU: I don’t believe in all that spirituality — meditation and sacrifice and all that. … Just because the sages prayed and meditated here, just because of my presence, just because of your surrender...
- Question: It is said that if one can sit on the floor with his legs crossed for an hour or so completely quiet and peaceful, not thinking any thoughts, then energy will rise up the base of his spine. But this has never happened to me.
- If you have the capacity, you can even lie down and meditate. You can run and meditate.
Meditation has to come from deep within, like the cry of a child hungry for food. … When you meditate, do not stiffen your body....
- Interview — Radio WGY, Albany
- There I prayed and meditated. So my life was influenced totally by prayer and meditation. … In my case, from my prayer-life and meditation-life I try to get messages from within. … I solely depend on my prayer-life and meditation-life....
- Question: If one person in our spiritual family is more aspiring, does this affect the other members?
- In a family, if you are praying and meditating, leading a very good life, then when I come home from … But when I come home, I can see that you are praying and meditating so peacefully. … One good disciple is praying and meditating, manifesting the Supreme’s Love. … The other one does not find time to meditate in three months....