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Question: Does it matter to the soul whether we meditate every day at the same time?
So try to be regular always in your meditation and try to be punctual always. … You can always use them as a measuring rod, because each day when you meditate punctually you are one … You may think that you have meditated for three months and come so far in your spiritual life that you … spiritual development will remain inside your heart, in your next incarnation or whenever you want to meditate...
From the book Eternity's Soul-Bird, part 1
Question: How can the disciple gain the power of constant remembrance and unconditional surrender to the Will of the Supreme?
Millions of people are not praying or meditating, but we are praying and meditating and trying to realise … Unconditional surrender grows like a mushroom if, every day early in the morning, we get up to pray and meditate … We feel an inner urge to get up to meditate in the morning while our neighbours are fast asleep....
From the book Creation and perfection
Scene 3
We shall meditate here until you return. … Let me meditate on it... (Meditates.) Ah, I have found the answer. … Anyway, let me meditate on Da and if I get any answer, I will go back to him... (Meditates.) … In the meantime, we shall meditate here. … Let me meditate on his stupid word, Da. (Meditates.) Aah, I have understood, I have understood!...
From the book Mother, give me the Light of Knowledge
The Upanishads — glimpses from The Vedas and The Upanishads[^1]
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 … Now, when an ordinary seeker meditates, he meditates in the mind. … If he is a little advanced, he meditates in the heart....
From the book AUM — Vol. 7, No. 9, 27 Apr. 1972
Question: Guru, please explain how we should meditate on an aphorism of yours, such as: "Three hundred
In each meditation you will see a world. … If you read these meditations four or six times most soulfully, I wish to tell you that each time you … This is how you can meditate on an aphorism of mine....
From the book God-Journey's Perfection-Return
Question: In the course of evolution, will there ever be a time when there will be no animal incarnations, but people will be born automatically realised and not have to go through the process of aspiration and inner development?
Perhaps you may say, "Oh, I have been meditating for twenty or thirty years and he has only meditated … Perhaps for years and years he meditated....
From the book God-Journey's Perfection-Return
Question: I feel that spirituality is essential for everyone and has to come first in our life. What are your thoughts on this?
We don’t go to the office first and then pray and meditate after we come back home. No. … We know that early in the morning if we pray to God and meditate on God, then we enter into the spiritual … But if in the morning we do not pray and meditate, then we may enter into the world of jealousy....
From the book The doubt-world
Question: I have recently felt quite distinctly a force that people throw around themselves for protection, or when they don't want to speak to someone. I have felt it like a solid object, like a wall. I would like to know how it is built. Is it built consciously or unconsciously?
When you meditate you may see that there is an aura constantly revolving around you. … This aura becomes all-powerful only through our prayer and meditation. … Each day when we pray and meditate this aura is strengthened; it moves faster, very, very fast....
From the book Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Question: In connection with your meditation, do you follow any dietary rules?
Our nerves become agitated; they become restless and aggressive, and this can interfere with our meditation … Inwardly, we are praying and meditating; outwardly, the food we are taking from Mother Earth is helping … But along with a vegetarian diet, one must pray and meditate....
From the book Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Question: How important is it for a spiritual aspirant to remain physically fit?
they were spiritual people, they felt that a healthy body would enable them to continue praying and meditating … Today also we know that if the body is full of sickness, then we will not be able to pray and meditate … Again, if he pays attention only to prayer and meditation and neglects the body, then his body will not...
From the book The outer running and the inner running
Question: In practical terms, how can we give the world love and concern?
All of us have been praying and meditating here in this room, but spiritually we have been spreading … Here we have been meditating for fifteen or twenty minutes. … While you are praying or meditating here next week look at yourself....
From the book Flame-Waves, part 1
Question: I have recently felt quite distinctly a force that people throw around themselves for protection, or even when they don't want to speak to someone. I have felt it like a solid object, like a wall. I would like to know how it is built. Is it built consciously or unconsciously?
When you meditate you may see that there is an aura constantly revolving around you. … This aura becomes all-powerful only through our prayer and meditation. … Each day when we pray and meditate this aura is strengthened. It moves faster, very, very fast....
From the book Flame-Waves, part 1
Question: When we have a choice between using our time for our studies or for spiritual things, which should we choose?
You must have time for meditation, for selfless service. … Each day you can give two hours for meditation and one hour for selfless service. … But the other brother has all along been developing two capacities: studying and meditating....
From the book Soul-education for the family-world
Question: How is it that if the spiritual force is so strong, the world seems to be such a disastrous place?
But when I meditate, at that time I can give my peace, my love, my blessings, my spiritual power. … When it is a matter of peace, light and bliss, you can receive them only through meditation. … The spiritual force can only be achieved through inner silence, through meditation....
From the book Politics and spirituality: can they go together?
Question: Spiritually, is the world going forward or backwards?
Now if you want to get inspiration by praying and meditating with hundreds of people, you get in your … In the days of the Vedic Seers, where could they find thousands of people meditating and praying, such … Some of the seekers may be weak, but even their little strength helps you have a better meditation....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 7
No refuge from the Florida lady

Then I looked at my sister and I meditated very powerfully for four or five minutes. … Now let me meditate. I am not going to pay any attention to that lady. … Let us meditate.”

When I was about to leave, the Florida lady said, “Please wait, wait....

From the book My express visit to India
In search of an infallible man
But I believe that one can become infallible in this life by praying and meditating. … One is saying that we become infallible on the strength of our prayers and meditations, and the other … “Please bring the other young man, the one who said that with God’s Grace, and by praying and meditating...
From the book Amusement I enjoy, enlightenment I study, part 4
Morning blessings[^12]
At that time my disciples were all meditating at home, but I was meditating on the street while running … Then stand there and meditate.”

Hundreds of things like this happen every day....

From the book Run and become, become and run, part 18
Unbelievable things do happen[^2]
Before I lifted, I meditated and meditated. Today my meditation was not ending....
From the book A mystic journey in the weightlifting world, part 3
Question: In practical terms, how can we give the world love and concern?
All of us have been praying and meditating here in this room, but spiritually we have been spreading … Here we have been meditating for fifteen or twenty minutes. … While you are praying or meditating here next week, look at yourself....
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Sir, when did you come upon the thought that there is an inner self within yourself? And after you discovered that you had an inner self, weren't you alarmed over the fact that you felt isolated from the rest of the world? And how did you make connections with other inner selves who were not aware that they had an inner self?
Now, in order to have a bridge between you two, what you can do during your meditation or concentration … You bring forward all these subtle and delightful feelings and then consciously, during your meditation … So first within yourself, just like watering a plant every day, you feed your inner being by meditation...
From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 2, 27 September 1966
Report from the United Nations
Realisation of God has been manifested in and through his unending services to humanity;

WHEREAS : Through meditation … growing inner satisfaction to countless individuals;

WHEREAS : Being Director of the United Nations Meditation … brotherhood;

WHEREAS : Sri Chinmoy came to Puerto Rico in 1966 where he established his first Center for meditation...

From the book AUM — Vol.II-3, No. 7, 27 July 1976
Question: In China I saw the Chinese goddess Quan Yin and I really felt something in her. I am wondering, if I feel inspired to sit in front of Quan Yin, is that a good thing?
Similarly, if you meditate on Mother Kali, I will not be jealous, because Mother Kali is my Mother....
From the book My heart-door I have kept wide open
Martin Luther King and Gandhi

We, the members of the United Nations Meditation Group, bow to you lovingly, devotedly and soulfully...

From the book Mahatma Gandhi: the heart of life
Part XV
At the end of the concert, the Master invited Sudhahota onto the stage to meditate with him and said:...
From the book Carl Lewis: the champion inner runner
Question: If a Master retires from the earth-consciousness, should his disciples help others?
You will be able to teach Hatha Yoga, but if you want to teach real meditation, it is impossible because...
From the book God, Avatars and yogis
Two immortal Australian runners
They say he was looking and looking at me while I was in a meditative consciousness....
From the book The world-experience-tree-climber, part 6
The Jakarta reporter

Then, when I was meditating before doing my lifts, he said, “Is there any special reason why you are...

From the book The world-experience-tree-climber, part 6
He believed in Light, not God
looking at him and then he said to me, “I do not believe in God, but I believe in Light, and when you meditate...
From the book My Consulate years
Question: I have been practising Hatha Yoga. I would like to achieve inner progress and inner development. Will I be able to achieve inner development through the practice of Hatha Yoga?
get the highest degree, then he has to practise deeper spirituality — that is to say, concentration, meditation...
From the book You belong to God
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Books found: 17

Meditation
The meditation-world
Concentration, meditation, contemplation
Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
The hour of meditation
My meditation-heart
Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
The mind and the heart in meditation
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow's Noon
Fifty-Four Morning Prayer-Cries and Morning Meditation-Smiles
My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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