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Question: How can I improve my morning meditation?
If you can say this sincerely, automatically your morning meditation will be strengthened....
From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 2
Question: Can godparents enhance the spirituality of their godchildren by prayer and meditation?
Certainly, not only godparents, but anybody can enhance the spirituality of somebody else by prayer and meditation...
From the book Father's Day: Father with his European children
Question: If a person is a very advanced seeker and develops the ability to see his past incarnations, will this actually hinder his progress? In other words, is it always harmful if you discover you were a thief or something in the past?
Sri Chinmoy: If you are meditating most sincerely in this life, your inner strength will automatically...
From the book Death and reincarnation: Eternity's voyage
I searched and searched
I searched and searchedI searched and searched

For my soul.At last I found my soul in

the Flute of Krishna.

I searched and searched

For my heart.At last I found my heart in

the Cross of Christ.

I searched and searched

For my mind.At last I found my mind in

the Meditation of Buddha.

I searched and searched

For my vital.At last I found my vital in

the Life of Vivekananda.

I searched and searched

For my body.At last I found my body on

the Lap of the Supreme. (43): 43. From The Dance of life poetry series Part V, 1973.

From the book Vivekananda: Divinity's Soul-Rainbow and humanity's heart-blossom
Question: Six or seven times my uncle has had very vivid dreams which have actually taken place on the physical plane after he has woken up. He believes that it is his soul that is giving him the message.
But if we meditate, if we concentrate, we can consciously enter into the dream worlds....
From the book Reincarnation and evolution
Question: Is there a difference between man and God?
Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God....
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 3
Question: What prevents the soul from manifesting its divinity?
event by consciously trying to become one with the soul’s Peace, Light and Bliss through our prayer and meditation...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-2, No. 6, 27 June 1975
Question: I have sat through this meditation and have not felt my consciousness elevated at all.
If you sat here and did not feel anything in my meditation, that is, unfortunately, your bad luck....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 1, January 1980
Spirituality and satisfaction[^10]
When we pray and meditate, we try to become consciously one with the Will of God. … Early in the morning, therefore, he prays and meditates. … Then, a few minutes later, he meditates. … When he meditates, he becomes the listener and God becomes the talker. … But real spirituality, real meditation, real yoga, is all inside the heart....
From the book My Maple Tree
Spirituality and satisfaction[^22]
When we pray and meditate, we try to become consciously one with the Will of God. … Early in the morning, therefore, he prays and meditates. … Then, a few minutes later, he meditates. … When he meditates, he becomes the listener and God becomes the talker. … But real spirituality, real meditation, real yoga, is all inside the heart....
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
The Senate of Puerto Rico honours Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy is the Spiritual Director of the United Nations Meditation Group. … He is a man who has dedicated his life to meditation and to the experience of union with God through … His achievements have reached the extent where he is now conducting meditations at the United Nations … also a centre for meditation in Puerto Rico. … are offered there twice a week, why can’t we meditate in the Puerto Rican Legislature?...

From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 2, 27 February 1975
It is God alone who teaches us[^40]
When it is a matter of spirituality, prayer and meditation, in this incarnation I started at the age … For peace of mind we have to pray and meditate. Nothing else will give us peace of mind. … But if you pray and meditate, then worries and anxieties will not assail you. … My blessing is my prayer, my meditation. … Our prayer, our meditation is not severe or austere — no, no, no!...
From the book My golden children
The inner race
When you skip your meditation one day, please feel that the strength of ignorance increases.

Meditation and dedication are of equal importance. … Sincere and soulful dedication is in no way inferior to meditation. … Again, if you can do good meditation, this is also a form of dedication. … Please meditate regularly and serve the Supreme in humanity regularly....

From the book A hundred years from now
Question: Can somebody lower your consciousness by touching you?
Suppose you have meditated for an hour. … If somebody touches you, your meditation-power will be infinitely stronger than the touch....
From the book Transcendence of the past
Question: If you really don't know exactly what you are doing when you meditate, how can you try … to improve your meditation?
But there is a negative, inconscient way of meditating which has no life in it. … In real meditation, the mind is silent but at the same time constantly creating....
From the book Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
Peace in God-hunger
Similarly, we have to feel that if we do not pray and meditate every day, then we are starving our spiritual … If we do not pray and meditate in the inner life, we find it very difficult to discipline the outer life...
From the book Cry within, yours is the Goal
The great liberator-snake
He stayed inside the cottage and meditated there for three days. … The owner said, “I have been meditating here for twelve years in order to see that snake....
From the book India and her miracle-feast: come and enjoy yourself, part 3 — Traditional Indian stories about Gambhirananda
Question: Is it possible for someone to raise the global consciousness just by raising his own individual consciousness?
Sri Chinmoy: We have to inspire the world to meditate by aspiring in and through the heart of the world … So the individual has to feel his oneness with the universe, and he has to aspire and meditate in and...
From the book World-destruction: never, impossible! part 1
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....
From the book Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
Tom's transformation
So Tom told her to meditate on my picture for ten minutes. That was her ‘punishment’! … So she meditated and then she came back and lifted the weight....
From the book My weightlifting tears and smiles, part 3
Question: Is grief a form of negativity?
Through our prayer and meditation we will come to feel that our dear one is happy somewhere else. … The deeper we can go with our prayer and meditation, the clearer it becomes to us that the person who...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 5
Question: Do you work also in a political way to bring about peace?
I have my own way, which is to pray and meditate to bring about peace. … But we feel, in the inmost recesses of our heart, that the way of prayer and meditation is best for us...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 10
Question: In one of your prayers, you say, "If I love You just because You love me, then I am worse than the worst." I feel that if I love the Supreme, it is only because the Supreme has brought forward that capacity in me.
Then the next moment we say to God, “I have prayed and meditated for twenty years. … I have prayed and meditated for so many years with no jealousy, no insecurity, no impurity....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 32
Davis: At this stage in my life, I am feeling the need to do more meditation. … For the last month now I have been doing mantras while meditating on the heart.
Sri Chinmoy: While you are meditating on your heart, if you do not mind my mentioning it, you could do … No matter what time of the day you are meditating, even if it is in the evening, imagine the rising sun...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 4
They say I shouldn't meditate and I say they should aspire more.
We have to pray and meditate. … Our Hour has struck, so we pray, we meditate. The Hour for others will strike today or tomorrow....
From the book Spiritual power, occult power and will power
Question: How is it possible to keep one's mind from having any thoughts?
But if you continue to meditate for a few months or a few years, then you will see that it is quite possible … to enter into thoughtless meditation....
From the book Promised Light from the Beyond
Act VI, Scene 6

LELE: Sit in meditation, but do not think, look only at your mind; you will see thoughts coming into … He begins to meditate. After one day all thought ceases....

From the book The Descent of the Blue
Question: How can we achieve peace in our outer life?
Early in the morning, before we enter into the hustle and bustle of life, if we meditate for ten or fifteen … Similarly, if we meditate early in the morning for peace, and peace descends, then when we enter into...
From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 4
Question: Do children sometimes experience this kind of Delight?
One can feel it only in one’s deepest, highest meditation. … Children also have to go through meditation, concentration and contemplation in order to experience this...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Do children sometimes experience this kind of Delight?
One can feel it only in one’s deepest, highest meditation. … Children also have to go through meditation, concentration and contemplation in order to experience this...
From the book The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi
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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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