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- Question: Just following up that question, I feel that I don't require the guidance or tuition of any particular Master. There have been many Masters: the Christ, Buddha, Krishna. Now, I feel that I can get the same from any one of them as I can get from a living Master. Isn't that true?
- Further, when it is a matter of aspiration also, he can sit right in front of you and teach you how to meditate … Otherwise, you may meditate for hours, yet you may feel that you are walking through a stony desert, … Yes, if you meditate on Krishna or the Christ, certainly you will realise God....
- The seance
- Since the Master was not sure that he would return by the time the evening meditation was to start, he … When he first started going to the Master’s meditations, he brought with him his own followers.
The poor Master had just come from a most sublime meditation in a neighbouring city. … During the meditation he had gone into a very high samadhi, and even now it was difficult for him to … Everybody filed out of the meditation room in silence....
- Parvati longs to marry Shiva
- But Lord Shiva was in a meditative consciousness and he did not pay any attention to the little girl. … He is meditating and meditating. How I wish that I could also meditate like him!” … He decided to play a trick on Shiva: he invoked the god of love to disturb Shiva’s meditation. … Shiva immediately burnt this unfortunate god to ashes because he had disturbed Shiva’s meditation....
- What is spirituality?
- This key is meditation. Meditation simplifies our outer life and energises our inner life. … Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life.
Meditation is a divine gift. … Meditation tells us that our human life is a secret and sacred thing, and it affirms our divine heritage … Meditation gives us a new eye to see God, a new ear to hear the Voice of God and a new heart to feel...
- The aspiring life[^100]
- I have to know that each action that I take is a meditation. … In order to pray well and have a good meditation, I have to offer my gratitude to my Pilot-Supreme. … It is His Compassion that has given me the capacity to pray and meditate. … When I meditate, I bring down the mangoes from Above and distribute them to aspiring souls. … Both my prayer and my meditation are of paramount importance....
- Self-discovery and world-mastery[^2]
We need meditation and we need concentration. … For self-discovery what we need is meditation, a life of meditation. … Our meditation longs for Infinity's reality. Our concentration longs for reality's immediacy. … Meditation wants everything slowly, steadily and unerringly. … Concentration gives utmost importance to speed, while meditation gives utmost importance to silence....
- The aspiring life[^2]
- I have to know that each action that I take is a meditation. … In order to pray well and have a good meditation I have to offer my gratitude to my Pilot-Supreme. … It is His Compassion that has given me the capacity to pray and meditate. … When I meditate, I bring down the mangoes from above and distribute them to aspiring souls. … Both my prayer and my meditation are of paramount importance....
- What is spirituality?[^3]
- This key is meditation. Meditation simplifies our outer life and energises our inner life. … Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life.
Meditation is a divine gift. It is the direct approach. … Meditation tells him that his human life is a secret and sacred thing, and it also affirms his divine … Meditation gives him a new eye to see God, a new ear to hear the voice of God, and a new heart to feel...
- The seance[^3]_
- Since the Master was not sure that he would return by the time the evening meditation was to start, he … When he first started going to the Master’s meditations, he brought with him his own followers.
The poor Master had just come from a most sublime meditation in a neighbouring city. … During the meditation he had gone into a very high Samadhi, and even now it was difficult for him to … Everybody filed out of the meditation room in silence....
- Question: Should meditation always be preceded by chanting AUM?
- When we begin our meditation, we can first enter into God the Creator who is creating aspiration in us...
- Question: Does meditating in a group improve our aspiration?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is, I must say, a new lesson almost every day. … In meditation the spiritual Master is conscious of the fact that he has entered deep within each soul...
- Question: How does a beginner meditate on the heart?
- In this way you can meditate on the heart. … The moment you feel that you are a child, you can meditate on the heart....
- Question: What would you consider the ideal Centre meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Each Centre has its own way of conducting the meditations. … For twenty minutes to half an hour you should meditate. … Either at the beginning or at the end of the meditation, everybody must sing the Invocation. … I used to get tremendous joy because I was getting two hours to meditate....
- Question: Would you speak about music, God and meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: I have written a book called God the Supreme Musician which I would like to send to you so that you can read it. In that book I have spoken at length about my views on God and music. God and music are inseparable. If you say that each musician is not God, I may agree with you, but if you say that soulful music is...
- Question: After five minutes of meditation I feel tired.
- So try to develop some capacity to meditate in the same way that you have developed the capacity to do...
- Question: Should meditation always be preceded by chanting AUM?
- When we begin our meditation, we can first enter into God the Creator who is creating aspiration in us...
- Not self-importance, but inner oneness
- He has now given me the opportunity to meditate. I can continue my meditation. … He was not in a meditative mood and he actually felt very depressed. … He called them into the meditation hall and said, "So-called selfless service is creating a problem in … And if he is in a good mood, then he feels that his Master has given him the opportunity to meditate … I won't be able to meditate well either.'...
- Awareness of the Master's height
- So many times I have meditated in front of you and brought down my highest consciousness. … When we meditate and our consciousness goes up, we just spread our wings. … But you have to know that there is a great difference between the way I meditate and the meditation that … Also, they will not try to imitate that particular person in their own meditation.
During meditation all of you have seen my height....
- Question: What is the best method to meditate on your paintings, i.e. to receive the most from them … as a meditation?
- the other seeker who saw light in it wants to add more light to what he already has, then he should meditate … If the third seeker wants to acquire more power, then he should meditate on the painting’s power aspect...
- Jedin Tomai Dakina Ma Sedin Ase Shanti
Jedin tomai dakina ma sedin ase shrantiShranti majhe bhese uthe agyanatar bhranti
Andhakare chahina ma andhar more chaiTahar dake sara diye byetha e pran pai
Alo diye jiban amar puta karo magoSmari jena nitya tomai prane amar jago
Translation
I become tired, Mother,Only during the days I do not think of You,
I do not meditate on You.In my tiredness, the mistakes of ignorance
Loom large.Mother, I do not want,
I do not need darkness,But darkness wants me and needs me.
When I respond to darkness,Boundless sorrow tortures my heart.
Do inundate my heart with light.Do awaken my heart and make me feel
That You and I are inseparably one.
- Self-confidence
- If we pray and meditate, He becomes knowable....
- Interviewer: How did your family fit into the Indian social scene?
- So we pray and meditate and try to bring light into our system from above so that we can transform our...
- Chitta's influence in my life
- When I was meditating, or studying, or writing poems, he would come and stand in front of me and look...
- Question: While I was watching the film about you that was shown in Berkeley recently, one of the striking things that I noticed was the way your eyes were constantly quivering. This gives one the sensation of inner ecstasy. Can you comment about that?
- Since I am a spiritual man and at the same time I am in a meditative consciousness, I am flying from...
- Question: Can you comment specifically on the use of drugs?
- But now these same disciples have been meditating with me for a couple of years and by the Grace of the...
- Question: Are some birthdays more significant?
- If, on the strength of your prayer and meditation, on a particular birthday you are conscious of your...
- A brother named Sri Chinmoy[^39]
- There I saw you meditating.” He couldn’t believe that I would be shopping in a grocery store....
- Question: How much importance should we give to physical exercise in comparison to our regular work?
- practise sports, feel that this is the most important thing, more important even than selfless service or meditation...
- Question: How can we create more energy inside ourselves so we can aspire more?
- If you feel that a certain amount of breath you are inhaling in the normal way, then while you are meditating...
- 50. 28 June 1974
I was deeply moved by your kind letter of 21 June 1974, which I received together with a copy of Meditation...