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- Question: What can we do to keep this spot, where you have planted this tree, a place of constant aspiration?
- Sri Chinmoy: Each day, no matter how bad the weather is, one of the disciples can come and meditate here … So, if everybody takes it seriously and can come here to pray and meditate, it will definitely add to...
- "The necessities of the body"
- Early in the morning, something within us is inspiring us to get up and meditate. … If we had listened to the soul, we would have got up and meditated....
- Question: What happens if after meditating for a while, you decide you want to take a rest and then
- If you stop meditating and leave the spiritual life, the progress that you have made will be destroyed … progress that you made will remain inside your heart, and after five or ten years, when you want to meditate...
- Question: How can you maintain inner tranquillity at work when you are in an atmosphere with a great deal of pressure?[^40]
- Because you pray and meditate and are trying constantly to increase your love of God, and because you … The more you can increase your inner light and bring it to the fore through your prayer and meditation...
- Question: At our United Nations meetings, should we meditate on specific themes related to United
- try to achieve peace, light and bliss in the inner world; only then do we feel, through prayer and meditation … So if we pray and meditate on peace, light and bliss, we will definitely be able to serve those in the...
- Question: How do you eradicate negativities and imperfections in the soul?[^156]
- Through our prayer and meditation. When our prayer goes up, it reaches the highest Height. … And when we meditate most soulfully, peace, light and bliss descend into us in abundant measure....
- Question: A few months ago I had a very unusual experience. Very early in the morning while I was still asleep, I felt a force in me, and I felt physically as though there was a lot of air in my head and no matter how many undivine thoughts tried to come to my mind, this force would not let them in.
- also purifying your entire existence so no undivine thoughts can enter into your mind or disturb your meditation … It is merely due to a deep meditation....
- Mr. Inoue: I understand that you place great importance on taking care of the physical body. Would you please tell me why you do this?
- a headache and an upset stomach, then early in the morning I will not be able to get up to pray and meditate … spiritual life will suffer and I will not be able to offer you my goodwill, love and joy in my prayer and meditation...
- Question: Are those beings on Mars consciously aspiring?
- The first ones get up willingly to pray and meditate; the last two are getting up only because they are … The first batch may become tired and say, “Oh, we have been praying and meditating with no result.”...
- Question: Do cosmic gods and goddesses have the capacity to make spiritual progress?
- They started meditating thousands of years ago and got tremendous spiritual or occult power and enormous … By praying and meditating and surrendering our will to God’s Will, we human beings can eventually become...
- Does the kind of meditation you teach enable one to eventually perform such feats?
- I urge you not to confuse your heart’s genuine meditation with fortune-telling and miracle-mongering. … Your meditation is priceless....
- Question: Could you say something about your activities at the U.N.?
- Through our prayer and meditation we are trying to do the same thing, so that the world will not surrender … Through our prayer and meditation we are trying to do the same thing, but our approach is the inner approach...
- Devotion
- Spiritual exercise is prayer and meditation. … In order to increase our devotion we have to meditate daily on the heart centre and we have to feel that...
- Question: What are negative forces?
- These are the forces that tell you not to pray and meditate because there is nothing in meditation....
- A conversation with a seeker[^1]
Then ten minutes later he came back to me and asked, “This is a meditation group?”
Then he asked, “Are you connected with the meditation group?”
I said, “Yes.”...
- Question: What is your view of the Vedic philosophers versus the Western philosophers?
- In their meditations, the Vedic seers climbed up to the topmost branch of the eternal life-tree. … is why they were able to become great philosophers even after reaching the sublime heights in their meditation...
- Question: At the end of a meditation for the general public, what is actually happening when you
- Sri Chinmoy: Towards the end of the meditation there are two things that I usually do. … During the meditation each individual member has added to the leader's self-offering....
- meetings, sometimes people are not on time, or they are restless, or they leave in the middle of the meditation … But then these same people get angry at the person leading the meditation if he tries to maintain some
In general, for outer discipline, the person who is leading the meditation is responsible. … If the leader is not there, others who are running the meditation are responsible....
- Poems on the wall
- Then I meditated and meditated. I knew that those words had come from another world....
- Interview for the Miami Herald [^2]
- Rick Ratliff: How did the meditation feel for you tonight? What did you feel from your audience?
Rick Ratliff: In what way does it help in a meditation for you to face the audience?
Rick Ratliff: When you participate in the meditation sessions at the United Nations, do you receive … Many of the members of the United Nations Meditation Group have been meditating with me for the last
Rick Ratliff: For example, one pays an initiation fee in Transcendental Meditation......
- 8 October 1995, Sportoyni Hala Sparta Prague, Czech Republic
- Let us pray and pray, and meditate and meditate, so that we can bring about world peace. … And let us pray and meditate to inundate this world with peace: shanti, shanti, shanti....
- Messages of peace
In order to reach this goal we shall pray for God's infinite Compassion and we shall meditate for … From our prayer and meditation we shall definitely receive infinite Compassion and Love. … May each human being on earth join the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in their soulful prayers and meditations...
- Question: In our daily life, are we supposed to suppress our emotions?
If we meditate on the positive side, that is to say, on light, then light is going to enter into us … If we meditate on joy, divine joy, then automatically we will grow into that joy. … Let us try only to meditate on the right thing, and the right thing is light....
- Question: Does this mean that Zen and Yoga have different goals?
- Again, if you feel like coming to our meditations on Tuesdays and Fridays here, you can see what we get … from our meditation. … Let us take meditation as one shop and Zen as another shop....
- Question: To be able to lift with just one arm the weight of 7,000 pounds is seemingly as impossible a task as trying to establish peace among the peoples of the world. Is it possible for you to explain how you are able to do such a feat, which is scientifically and logically impossible?
So through my prayer and meditation I am able to expand my love for my fellow citizens of the world … We pray and meditate so that we do not remain in the mind-reality, which is constantly dividing us. … Our prayer-life and meditation-life can take us far, far beyond the domain of scientific capacity....
- Question: While I am in the office, how can I control my emotions? There is so much injustice and nothing I can do to help myself.[^154]
- At our meditations here at the United Nations, we bring down peace. … When you meditate with us, you can not only feel this peace but you can actually swim in the sea of peace … If you pray and meditate regularly, you will soon feel that your peace is infinitely stronger, more fulfilling...
- Question: Tonight you gave an aphorism encouraging us to practise 'ancient disciplines'. Could you please elaborate on that?[^3]
- Sri Chinmoy: To start right from the beginning: one ancient discipline is to meditate in the small hours … In Vedic times, meditation started between three o’clock and half past three. … At least one hour or an hour and a half you can spend in prayer, meditation, reading spiritual books,...
- Mother Earth[^4]
Mother Earth, powerfully you concentrate, soulfully you meditate, fruitfully you contemplate. … In your meditation we see God the ever-expanding Infinity. … The Earth Day Committee invited Sri Chinmoy to commence this year's activities with a silent meditation...
- The Master's fragrance
- When a saint or a holy man meditates at the foot of a tree for a few minutes, if later you sit under … There need not be any flower inside the meditation room: If the spiritual Master meditates well, then...
- The renunciate
- I want to stay here inside this temple and only pray and meditate, pray and meditate, pray and meditate...