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- Question: How can I talk to the soul, Guru?
- You have to meditate on the soul and see it for yourself.”
She did meditate on the soul....
- The Bronx: Two sweet incidents
- She used to come to meditate at my place in Manhattan. … First I would give the rose and then I would look at the person and meditate....
- Question: Should you reject all thoughts during meditation?
- , spiritual thoughts and then, in just a fleeting second, an undivine thought will enter in and his meditation … So the best thing is not to allow any thoughts during the meditation....
- Question: How can we meditate on the soul?
- This is how to meditate on your soul....
- Question: Is a Master mandatory for proper meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: No one is forcing you to have a Master, but it certainly is advisable. You know that there is a goal, and you want to reach the goal. If you are wise, you accept help from someone who can show you the easiest, safest, and most effective path to that goal. If you want to take hundreds and thousands of years to...
- Question: How can we meditate better each time?
- If you want to make your meditation better, you have to feel a need, a divine need....
- Question: Do you have a particular meditation technique?
- We practise this in our silent meditation and also in our life of divine manifestation....
- Marty Gallagher: How does meditation differ from concentration?
- When we meditate, we meditate on something larger than the largest.
We concentrate on a tiny drop, but we meditate on the vast ocean or the sky. … Meditation is vastness, absolute vastness. And contemplation is something far beyond both of these....
- Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations
- United Nations: the Heart-Home of the World-Body.
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....
- The United Nations Meditation Group With Muhammad Ali
- Earnie Shavers on 29 September, Muhammad Ali met with Sri Chinmoy and members of the United Nations Meditation … Group for an hour of prayer, meditation and discussion. … Later, some thirty United Nations Meditation Group singers sang a song which Sri Chinmoy had composed … in the fighter’s honour, and the group meditated together in silence for about twenty minutes.
Sri Chinmoy: We pray and meditate twice a week....
- Question: How should a disciple of yours meditate?
There are two ways for Guru’s disciples to meditate....
- My poems and meditations on the Saviour Christ
- The Christ was a poet, for his utterances are all poetic, visionary and revolutionary. Each of the Christ’s works is a seer-vision of the Father Supreme.
The Christ was a painter. He painted the suffering of human life and the delight of divine life in and through his own life.
The Christ was an athlete. He ran the fastest...
- Question: Has God ever fallen asleep during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, on very rare occasions God has fallen asleep during His meditation, but His sleep is … cosmic gods and goddesses, especially the goddesses, laughed at God when He fell asleep during His meditation...
- Question: Now that I have entered into the spiritual life, I have more problems with desires. Is the Supreme giving me these extra desires to strengthen me?
- At that time, the intensity of the seeker’s meditation meets with these earthly desires. … in the form of desire, doubt, anxiety, jealousy or any unaspiring thoughts to enter our minds during meditation … If a desire comes to us while we are not meditating, it is not good to cherish it; but it is infinitely … worse to cherish it during meditation. … If we cherish desire or any impure thought during meditation, then we are simply strengthening the power...
- Conquer your enemies[^3]
“Master, I promise you,” the disciple continued, “I promise you I will really pray and meditate once … with wisdom every day with your spiritual talks, with your affection, with your kindness, with your meditation … If you don’t take the medicine, which is prayer and meditation, then how are you going to cure yourself … Prayer and meditation are the medicine.”
The disciple said, “Master, what you are saying is true. … Then I will immediately run towards you and I will again pray and meditate.”...
- Shiva insults his wife
- There was an asura who wanted to become immortal, so he prayed and meditated for many, many years. … She began praying and meditating and practising very strict spiritual austerities. … One day a tiger came near her as she sat meditating. It wanted to kill and devour her. … I am meditating here all alone and it has come to protect me.”
Parvati continued meditating on Brahma. At long last he came to see her....
- Progress-delight[^56]
- It is at once a soulful prayer and a fruitful meditation. I am a seeker. … If I can soulfully pray and fruitfully meditate, then I make progress. … This prayer and meditation embodies my progress and delight.
Thoughtful inspiration I need, soulful aspiration I need, fruitful meditation I need.
Soulfully let us pray, fruitfully let us meditate, and ours will be the Goal of goals: God-realisation...
- Question: What can beginners do about all the thoughts that come during meditation?
- Right now, let us say, your meditation is disturbed by uncomely thoughts. … And if it takes longer than that, you should be happy and grateful that He is still inspiring you to meditate … It is also wrong to expect your mind to become calm and quiet just because you have meditated for two … fifteen minutes or half an hour, then the dark, unaspiring forces will not be there at the end of our meditation … This is how we can have only good thoughts from our meditation....
- Sri Chinmoy visits the West Coast
- Ghose, author and lecturer, is director of the United Nations Meditation Group and delivers the monthly … November 1 through 3, 1976 and will visit the Sri Chinmoy Centre, which sponsors lectures, films, and meditation … He will conduct a public meditation at the First Congregational Church on November 3, 1976; and
WHEREAS … prominent interdenominational religious leader and is currently the Director of the United Nations Meditation … Chinmoy is a world-renowned authority on yoga, a prolific author and musician, and conducts regular meditations...
- In God's eye nobody is untouchable[^5]
- He used to just go on praying, meditating and chanting. … They had known all along that he prayed and meditated day and night, but previously they had regarded … give us greater joy than to offer you the opportunity to spend the rest of your life in prayer and meditation … So they gave him a big house where he could pray and meditate, and said, “Please take care of your spiritual...
- Contemplation
- There are three steps: concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Meditation is the second step. Contemplation is the last step. During meditation, I am a God-lover. … It is difficult to concentrate and to meditate....
- Question: Unless the peoples of the world as a whole aspire collectively, will there ever be abiding peace in the world?
- If collective aspiration means twenty people all meditating and praying together for world peace, then … When you meditate together, if you are of different standards, there will be some inner conflict. … The result in this case will be far better than that achieved by putting everybody together to meditate … But if you put all human beings together and meditate for world peace, it won’t work out....
- Question: What is the best way of obtaining peace in our inner life and in our outer life?
- There your colleagues, who have not prayed or meditated, are quarrelling and fighting. … And if you had had a most powerful meditation early in the morning, I assure you the power of your own … prayer and meditation in the inner world could have easily averted the wrong forces, the misunderstanding … The peace we bring to the fore from the inner world through our prayer and meditation is very strong,...
- Question: How can I trust my discrimination and know what is the right thing to do in my life?
- You don’t have to learn how to meditate in order to be calm and quiet for a few minutes. … your case, you not only know that God-realisation is good, but you 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: How do we reinforce our spiritual aspiration when we feel it is wavering?
- We hate to meditate and even if we meditate, the meditation is not good. … Suppose that today we find it difficult to meditate....
- Govinda's restaurant
- You gave a concert there and your meditation was so powerful.
"Once I even came to meditate at a meeting held in your backyard. … As soon as you came out, everybody stood up and meditated so powerfully, with such love and devotion.
Again and again this young man came to me with folded hands to tell me how powerful my meditation...
- Question: Sometimes when I meditate, I feel that I am about to go through some experience, but nothing
It is the same with your meditation.
While you are praying and meditating, imagine that you have a bicycle inside you. … While you are meditating you have to aspire all the time; otherwise, you will fall. … When you start meditating early in the morning, if you think, “Today I have to get the highest experience...
- Question: Yesterday when I was meditating, I got a message from the silence that said, "Love one … When we get this kind of message in our meditation, should we meditate on it and take it into ourselves
- Sri Chinmoy: When you get a message in your mind during your meditation, you have to know whether it
Suppose you are meditating and after a few minutes a thought or idea comes into your mind. … In your case, the thought that came to you in your meditation was about divine love.
But you have to be careful when thoughts come to you during meditation....
- Question: How can we maintain a good spiritual standard consistently instead of going up and down?[^171]
- If today we do a wonderful meditation, then tomorrow we feel we can relax. … But every day when we meditate we have to feel that it is our last day on earth, and that tomorrow we
Whenever you sit down to meditate, you have to feel that the hour has struck.
If you feel that today is your absolutely last chance, then you are bound to have a good meditation...
- I need peace[^62]
- But it is I who have to discover what I need most in my life, and it is I who have to pray for it and meditate … When I meditate, I feel peace. I feel this peace in the inmost recesses of my heart. … So my inner wisdom-light tells me that I should try to increase my prayer time and my meditation time … For an extra five minutes I shall soulfully pray and meditate to increase the divine peace within me....