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- Question: There are many books on reincarnation on the market that you can buy. But is it something that can be understood by the intellect, the laws of reincarnation?
- To enter into the region of the soul, you have to aspire and meditate....
- Interviewer: Why does there seem to be an increase in interest in what meditation can do for mankind … I notice that on the UN Meditation Group book here, they call meditation "Our Hope for Mankind."
- Sri Chinmoy: United Nations members have already tried other ways and have not been successful. So now some of them are trying this way, the inner way. The outer way they have tried; through politics and various outer means they have tried to bring about peace. But, unfortunately, they have not succeeded. So now they are trying...
- Receptivity
- So when you meditate on my Transcendental picture, try to empty yourself.
Sometimes I tell you to meditate on a particular quality, such as joy. … My smiling face will shine there and then you can easily meditate on joy. … One of the ways you can receive from me during meditation is through my eyes. … They meditate on themselves or sometimes they don’t even meditate....
- The human mother and the Mother Divine
- But both prayer and meditation are of paramount importance in the inner life. … But in our path we are trying to combine both prayer and meditation. … At the time of our meditation He tells us what we should do, what we must do, in order to become His … They are praying, they are meditating — what for? To share with you their inner achievements. … Now, what they are getting from their prayers and meditation they are offering to you inwardly....
- Mothers' Day, March 9[^2]
- , but both prayer and meditation are of paramount importance in the inner life. … But in our path we are trying to combine both prayer and meditation. … At the time of our meditation He tells us what we should do, what we must do, in order to become His … They are praying, they are meditating — what for? To share with you their inner achievements. … Now what they are getting from their prayers and meditation they are offering to you inwardly....
- Question: How can I acquire lasting inner joy?
- We do not even meditate unconditionally for a minute. … When we sit to meditate, we expect a little Light or a little joy. But are we beggars? … Now if He asks us inwardly to think of Him, to meditate on Him, we shall do it out of our boundless love … The moment we meditate, we have to feel that this capacity has come directly from Him. … If He has given us the capacity to pray and meditate, will He not also give us the capacity to receive...
- Progress-delight[^9]
- 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: Lifting up human beings looks very easy for you.
- Sri Chinmoy: Prayer and meditation. … I pray and meditate and I entirely depend on God's Grace, God's Compassion. … Question: The prayer and meditation you do, are they more or less helpful according to what type of training … Sri Chinmoy: It is prayer and meditation that bring to me the things that are necessary, essential. … Prayer and meditation determine beforehand what is needed....
- Question: How can we remain more conscious in our life?
- When someone is really a great seeker, very advanced in the spiritual life, he automatically prays and meditates … In the beginning, perhaps he started with only five minutes of meditation in the morning. … If someone can meditate for two hours at a stretch with perfect equanimity, without losing his mental
We cannot meditate twenty-four hours a day. We have to go to work or to school. … if we speak about mundane things, we will not lose the inner wealth that we accumulated during our meditation...
- Question: Guru, you have told us that you create soul-birds when you draw. What are the soul's qualities of your abstract paintings, the ones you did before the soul-birds were started? Are they universes, or are they souls, individual souls?[^3]
- A time-stopping meditation.”[^4] There is a kind of meditation in which you can definitely see the time … — one o’clock, two o’clock, three o’clock — but while you are meditating, you are going beyond time. … At that time, from one to two to three and four o’clock time does not move; that meditation is beyond … With your meditation when you can stop the power of time, everything can be seen in a different way....
- Question: Guru, how can we have a feeling of giving and not expecting in our meditation, especially
- Sri Chinmoy: During your meditation, just try to throw your inner and outer existence into my transcendental … So when you meditate, just throw yourself with your utmost aspiration into my Consciousness....
- Question: Guru, I often see Light as energy or forcefulness. Would you comment on that, please?
When you meditate, Light is operating in and through you. … The Light which you get during your meditation is not only for your use but for others' use as well....
- Question: Guru, what is the best way to conquer physical self-pity?
- No, the time has come for you to meditate. It is six o’clock. You have to get up. … Tomorrow you will be able to meditate.”...
- Children and prayer
- seven and ten years old, but they are eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen and they are coming here to meditate … Their parents are very good because they are praying and meditating and the children are also very good...
- Question: Can we identify with the person whose birthday it is so that we can also receive something?
- When you see that I am very seriously meditating on the soul or the heart of the person, at that time … I may be meditating on you and you may be getting nothing, whereas a third party may be receiving the...
- To become like Hanuman[^5]
- Sri Chinmoy: We think of Hanuman and meditate on Hanuman. … Now let us meditate on our own faith — our faith in our Master, our faith in the Lord Supreme and His...
- Question: What will happen if followers of the Christ or the Buddha or other great ascended Masters meditate
- disciples of the Christ and disciples of the Buddha, if they are true disciples, will have no problem meditating … with me in the public meditations, for I am not taking them away from the Christ Consciousness or the...
- Steve Powers: One of the problems I think people have is that even if they pray and meditate or if
- Good people and spiritual people can pray and meditate for divine protection, and also to illumine mankind
Sri Chinmoy: Prayer and meditation can solve all our problems....
- Question: Will the inner music ever be heard outwardly on earth?
- Sri Chinmoy: It will be heard only in deep meditation, deep contemplation. … The real musicians have their own music in the inner worlds, and when they are in deep meditation or...
- Professor Genevieve McCoy: How does one reach Being-in-General?
- By virtue of our prayer and meditation, we come to realise that God is not someone who is at the farthest … We discover God and realise Him by virtue of our sleepless prayer and breathless meditation....
- Professor Zell Kravinsky: What is the fastest way to know God and feel His special Concern for us?
- It is easy to say that we shall please God in His own Way, but it takes years of prayer and meditation … If we pray and meditate soulfully and selfgivingly, if we feel that we love God only and need Him only...
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- AUM is our concentration, meditation and contemplation. … becomes a uniquely one-pointed field of concentration, our mind becomes an energising and fulfilling meditation...
- Remarks after the 1991 700 — 1,000 — 1,300-mile race[^3]
- I am a man of prayer and meditation, and from my prayer and meditation, I got this inspiration to be...
- Wonderful world
Sri Chinmoy, first and foremost a meditation teacher, has found in Jharna-Kala a means to convey and … share his meditative experiences and elevated states of consciousness....
- Question: How do you eradicate negativities and imperfections in the soul?
- Similarly, if we want to be perfect in our life of aspiration, then we have to pray and meditate. … And when we meditate most soulfully, Peace, Light and Bliss descend into us in abundant measure....
- The good and bad shopkeepers
I entered into a meditative consciousness and continued walking back to the Palace Gardens Hotel.
This is what happens when you are in a meditative consciousness. Finally I went away....
- Before take-off
- At the meditations you are very distant. It is good, but you are somewhere else.
I said, "At that time I meditate." She said, "Yes, that's why you are so distant."...
- The many names of Shiva
Brahma was meditating in order to get a son. … All of a sudden, after thousands of years of meditation, he saw a child in his lap....
- The power of the Gayatri mantra
- p>Aum bhur bhuvah svahtat savitur varenyam
bhargo devasya dhimahidhiyo yo nah pracodayat
> We meditate … If you meditate and dive deep within, you will see a swan, and that is the goddess Gayatri....
- Question: What is the best way for a nation to contribute to the world at large?[^5]
- Otherwise, one nation will start out praying and meditating for all the nations but immediately stop … the nations have been combined or amalgamated into one reality, then it will all the time pray and meditate...