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- 814. Expect nothing
- Your prayer is fearful.
Therefore, Expect nothing from your prayer.
Your meditation is doubtful. Therefore Expect nothing from your meditation.
Your love is not soulful. Therefore, Expect nothing from your love.
- 5. Although I sleep
- Although I sleep
During my morning meditation, God appreciates my attempt.
Therefore I thank God.
Although I sleep During my evening meditation, I am proud of my attempt. Therefore I love myself.
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- Your heart prays and meditates Every day. Your mind never prays And never meditates. It only enjoys vacation. How then does your mind expect To climb up the realisation-tree Like your heart?
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- You do know how to forget Your morning meditation. But can you not do The most difficult thing And remember to practise Your morning meditation, Which is God’s first meal of the day?
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- When you are meditating In your Master’s absence, Your imagination-power Can either bring your Master Right in front of your mental vision, Or it can send Your meditation-consciousness To your Master.
- Meditating on Mother Kali
- Above my chair in the meditation room there is a picture of Mother Kali. … Before I lift every morning, with folded hands I meditate on this picture for several moments....
- My meditation tells me
- My short meditation tells me:
God can and does see me All the time.
My long meditation tells me: I can and will see God If I really and desperately want to.
- Meditations without a word
- O my mind, your meditations Have too many words in them But too little heart. Can you not, like my heart, Have meditations with only A hallowed heart And not a single word?
- 5780. God asks me to help myself
- Before I meditate, God places His Compassion-Drink before me And asks me to help myself. After I have meditated, God places His Satisfaction-Feast before me And asks me to help myself.
- Meditation and inner education
- Since my subject will be meditation and education, with your kind permission I wish to meditate for a
Meditation and the inner education. Meditation is a vast subject. … Everybody meditates. … way of meditation. … When we think of God and meditate on God, this is one form of meditation....
- Meditation and the inner education[^7]
- Since my subject will be meditation and education, with your kind permission I wish to meditate for a
Meditation and the inner education. Meditation is a vast subject.
Everybody meditates. … way of meditation. … When we think of God and meditate on God, this is one form of meditation....
- Caller: If you belong to a specific religious group, is it contradictory to meditate? … Does meditation have one specific religion, or can anyone of any religion meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation far surpasses the barriers of religion. One can follow any religion. … Meditation is like a school, and religion is like a house. … Everybody can meditate, no matter what religion he belongs to or even if he does not belong to any religion...
- Question: Why is it important to meditate with other people?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you have a friend who knows how to meditate, and if you meditate with him, even unconsciously … Then, automatically the power of meditation will increase in you and your ignorance will decrease....
- I want to know if it is a kind of meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: Chanting is not, strictly speaking, a form of meditation. It is an invocation. … Meditation is different. … While in chanting you usually invoke God to permeate your whole existence, in meditation you try, in...
- I want to know if it is a kind of meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: Chanting is not, strictly speaking, a form of meditation. It is an invocation. … Meditation is different. In chanting you usually invoke God to permeate your whole existence. … In meditation you try, in a broader way, to enter into God's Infinity, Eternity and Immortality....
- Meditations
- On 16 October 1976 at 8 a.m., Sri Chinmoy held a public meditation at All Angels' Church in New York … City for absolute beginners in meditation. … On the same day, at 1 p.m., Sri Chinmoy conducted another meditation; this one was for highly advanced...
- Question: Is it bad for someone to fall asleep after meditation if he is meditating at three or four
- If you have to sleep after meditation, you can go to sleep, but if you can continue meditating until … If you can meditate for an hour, then you can assimilate the results of your meditation afterwards. … But if you go immediately to sleep after meditating, and if you get up at nine or ten o’clock, then there … agitation from the earth’s consciousness or from your own lower vital can come into the results of your meditation … Suppose you have meditated from two to three. Then you can sleep again from three to five....
- Question: How can we bring our dreams into our meditation?[^109]
- So you will say, “Let me work very hard in my meditation, and perhaps I can go there.” … Again, you may go on remembering all that happened in the dream, even during your meditation. … But then the real intensity of their meditation went away. … When you meditate, you do not have to think of your dreams at all; just meditate most sincerely to go … Then it will not be necessary for you to bring your dreams into your meditation at all....
- Dr. Davis: That is beautiful. My husband and I enjoyed your concert when we were there. It was marvellous to see you play so many different instruments. I did not even know the names of some of the instruments.
- Sri Chinmoy: If you are free this Wednesday evening, we will have a special meditation at P.S. 86. … About 400 people come to meditate with me. … , I would like to offer you my special way of meditation. … It is better not to eat for two hours before the meditation. … We have to be dynamic when we meditate. Peace is nothing but inner dynamism....
- Question: How soon should one eat before and after meditating?.
- Sri Chinmoy: If you want to meditate after eating a full meal such as lunch or dinner, you should wait … If you have had a very light breakfast, you can meditate after an hour and a half. … Before that you will not have a deep, true meditation because your subtle nerves will be very heavy and … If you want to meditate most sincerely, it is always advisable to meditate on an empty stomach. … And after meditation, you should try to wait for at least half an hour before you eat, for it takes this...
- Question: What does the United Nations Meditation Group do? Who belongs to this group?
- to hold meditation from twelve noon to one p.m. … For about half an hour I meditate with them. … We hold our meditation in the Peace Room. … They come, they meditate and they are inundated with inner peace. … We hold our meditation there every Tuesday....
- Question: If we are only meditating for fifteen minutes each morning, is that really enough for God-realisation
- We have disciples who say they meditate for twenty hours. … In my family, two or three members meditated more than I did. … In my case, meditation became spontaneous.
God-realisation does not depend on how many hours you meditate. … It depends on how intensely and deeply you meditate....
- someone who has no teacher or method of inner discipline to be thinking about something and enter into meditation
- But thinking will not lead to meditation. … Thinking and meditation are altogether two different things. … In meditation there should be no thinking. … The first thing in meditation is to keep the mind calm and quiet....
- Question: Why is it that you so seldom give talks these days?
- But now I feel that silent meditation is the best approach, for the result of my silent meditation is … Again, people cannot meditate for two hours at a stretch, so I also play soulful and prayerful music. … When I meditate in silence and play a few instruments, I feel that the faces of the people in the audience...
- Question: Do several hours of breathing exercises help our meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Some breathing exercises are of real help to meditation. … But we should not exercise for an hour or two before we meditate. … If we do, by the time we start our meditation, we will be totally exhausted and have no energy left or … If we do breathing exercises for five or ten minutes first, it will be of great help to our meditation...
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- Every morning before I meditate, My Beloved Supreme blessingfully gives me His seven-minute Compassion-Chariot Ride. Every morning after I meditate, My Beloved Supreme proudly gives me His seven-minute Satisfaction-Chariot Ride.
- Question: Through what form of aspiration can I grow and blossom most soulfully to please the Supreme?
- Sri Chinmoy: Aspiration-life is meditation. Aspiration-life is dedication. … Through meditation and through dedication you can and must grow and blossom most soulfully in order to...
- 59.
- What do you want?
I want rapture.
Meditate on the haunting melody of your heart-songs. Meditate on the meeting of two dear ones, in an airport, after a very long separation.
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- God, please tell me the difference between prayer and meditation.
"The difference is so clear, My child. When you pray, you talk and I listen; when you meditate, I talk and you listen."
- God-Meditators Are God-Elevators
God-meditators areGod-elevators.