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The seeker, the aspirant and the God-lover[^1]
The seeker can pray or meditate from the heart, the mind, the vital and the physical. … But the aspirant wants to pray and meditate only from the heart. … The aspirant feels that the prayer and meditation that is in the heart and from the heart offers the … The seeker prays and meditates most devotedly and soulfully to reach the highest Height, where he will...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 10
Question: How can we feel that our obedience is spontaneous and joyful rather than forced?
The heart tells us to pray and meditate, and the joy we get from our prayers and meditations is real … True, we cannot pray and meditate for twenty-four hours a day, because we are working and carrying out … But during the day we can remember the joy we got from our morning meditation....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 12
Question: If all of us could be sincerely happy, would all your problems be over?
In the morning you are supposed to get up at six o’clock to meditate. … At six o’clock you are supposed to pray and meditate. … If you had gotten up and prayed and meditated, that happiness would have really helped me. … I want you to get up at six o’clock and pray and meditate....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 30
Question: Some Masters say the spiritual heart is in the centre of the chest; others say it is off to one side. How can this be?

When seekers meditate on the highest Truth, each one realises the Truth from a different angle. … When this Master is meditating and contemplating, he gets Light, boundless Light in the Third Eye.

When you meditate and contemplate, you get Light from a distinct place. … When we meditate we come to realise that the heart exists, and inside the heart is the soul....

From the book Self-discovery and world-mastery
Attack by dogs[^2]
As I was running back, I was in my highest meditation.

For four miles I had been meditating, so was it my karma? … You might say that perhaps the previous day I had done a bad meditation, but I knew for the past half … I was doing only prayer and meditation, but the hostile forces are all around....

From the book Run and become, become and run, part 14
Can we conquer the fear of death through meditation?
So, to come back to your question, I wish to say that through meditation we can conquer the fear of death … When we meditate, we enter into the endless Life. … For that, we have to meditate and meditate, and then we have to grow into that endless Life....
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 2
Ekla Ami Tomar Kache Jabona Ma

Ekla ami tomar kachhe jabona ma jabonaEkla ami tomai kabhu bandhbona ma bandhbona

Tomar hiyar mauna bhashaEi dharanir dipta asha

Tomar praner premer dharaModer lagi bandhan hara

Ekla ami tomar kachhe jabona ma jabonaSabar sathe tomai pabo ei shudhu mor sadhana

Translation

Alone I shall not go to You, Mother, I shall not go.Alone I shall not bind You, I shall not bind You.

Your Heart’s silence-languageand the illumined hope of this world,

and Your Heart’s nectar-flowAre always boundless for us.

Alone I shall not go to You, Mother, I shall not go.With all I shall get You:

This is my life’s only aspiration, only meditation,only Goal.

From the book Garden of love-light, part 2
Smallest, cutest[^17]
I had very, very, very high meditations and very, very, very high experiences, so I wanted to have a...
From the book Only one power
40.
I meditate on You, God. God says to me, “No good, no good.” I love You, God....
From the book My Race-Prayers, part 2
Mu Magazine: By challenging the limits of weightlifting, do you feel that you are giving the world some kind of inspiration?

Through prayer and meditation, one has to bring the inner power or capacity to the fore....

From the book Japan: Soul-Beauty's Heart-Garden
Unconditional love
poetry or prose, or my athletic life — if I have done anything in this life — his constant prayer, meditation...
From the book My brother Chitta
Question: Sometimes after meditation I lose the joy that I have received from my meditation.
The quantity of Light that you have gotten during your meditation has satisfied you, but the excess you...
From the book Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
Question: Could you talk about the concert that you will be giving?
This peace of mind we can get from our peaceful meditation and our prayerful life, not from political...
From the book Run and smile, smile and run
Two philosophers
Then I started meditating and entered into a high consciousness....
From the book The world-experience-tree-climber, part 7
Bowing and bowing
Then I would have to bow a second time to show that the meditation for that particular individual was...
From the book The world-experience-tree-climber, part 4
The fabric store[^42]
As soon as I entered into the store, the owner showed me that he had “Silence Speaks,” my daily meditations...
From the book I love shopping, part 2
Question: When will the Russian soul find harmony?
If the children behave well, if they pray and meditate and do the right thing, then the parents feel...
From the book Russia and Russia's God-Blossoming Heart
39. From Giandomenico Picco, 20 January 1982
He also appreciated your kind invitation to participate in a special meditation programme this month,...
From the book Perez de Cuellar: Immortality's Rainbow-Peace
42. From J Paul Kavanagh to Mr Davidson, 24 January 1986
gratification of the admirable commitment, so widely recognised, which you and your colleagues in the Meditation...
From the book Perez de Cuellar: Immortality's Rainbow-Peace
From Mrs Aye Aye Myint-U, 1 April 1975
Dear Sri Chinmoy,

My mother, my husband and I would like to thank you for the copies of “Meditation...

From the book U Thant: Divinity's Smile, Humanity's Cry
Question: Inner silence is equated with prayer and meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: Prayer, meditation, concentration, and contemplation are the inner silence....
From the book Flame-Waves, part 1
Question: How can we overcome vital forces?
Every day you should meditate on purity....
From the book Flame-Waves, part 12
Question: Is inner silence equated with prayer and meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: Prayer, meditation, concentration and contemplation are the inner silence....
From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
Question: Is it possible to reach the state of God-realisation by devotedly practising one's religion?
And this we do through prayer and meditation....
From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
Question: Is inner silence equated with prayer and meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: Prayer, meditation, concentration, contemplation are the inner silence....
From the book Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
Question: Can you explain how the aspirant may reach his spiritual heart?
An aspirant can reach his spiritual heart through constant concentration and meditation....
From the book Mind-confusion and heart-illumination, part 2
The "barking" weights
If people don’t concentrate plus meditate, they may injure their muscles, and then they will suffer....
From the book My weightlifting tears and smiles, part 1
Question: How long did it take you to climb the spiritual ladder?
After attaining the height of nirvikalpa samadhi in this incarnation, I had to practise meditation most...
From the book The inner journey
Question: Is the loss of the sun's brilliance a physical phenomenon or is it caused by a lack of aspiration on earth?
The sun rises each morning, but how many people get up at five o’clock or six o’clock to meditate?...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 5
Question: How do you have the same amount of inspiration every day?
If every day we enter into our heart-garden by virtue of our prayer and meditation, we will constantly...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 10
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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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