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Question: Sometimes when I am meditating I fall asleep, not because I am tired, but because I feel
Your goal is to reach a profound meditation. … When you meditate you should try to create inside yourself a dynamic peace....
From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
Question: What do you experience while you are producing your works at a tremendous speed? What do you do to reach the proper consciousness? Can you create or compose whenever you want to, or only when you feel a call from within?
creating something that will be of value to aspiring humanity, I do not pray to God for inspiration or meditate … Before I create something or do something most important and significant, I just meditate for God to...
From the book World-destruction: never, impossible! part 2
Question: What does a spiritual teacher or learned person such as yourself say to a Western-trained scientist who dismisses the idea of receiving messages from the dead as imaginary or hallucination?
Similarly, without prayer and meditation — which is our inner ticket — we cannot go into the inner world … Is there any scientist ready to pray and meditate like a true seeker and God-lover?...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 10
Question: I would like to know your opinion about Jesus Christ.
inseparably one with the omnipotent God, he is none other than my Father in Heaven, and my prayer and meditation … Again, when he is one with humanity, when he is praying and meditating with us and teaching us how to...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 4
Interviewer: So you feel that peace is going to come about by offering goodwill to each and every human being?
If we pray and meditate, we shall not misunderstand one another because prayer makes our mind pure. … I could have said, “I am praying, I am meditating. I have thousands of disciples....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 23
Physical postures
Question: Most of us in the Western world who are not familiar with Yoga and meditation tend to associate … Hatha yoga exercises are done calmly, quietly, in a meditative mood....
From the book Sri Chinmoy primer
Interviewer: What were your particular interests in the sporting life there?
We call it the Sri Chinmoy Centre and we practise meditation under Sri Chinmoy’s guidance. … There are ten or twelve of us at the moment and we meet twice a week to meditate....
From the book Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 4
Question: Back in the 1960's a number of intelligent people said that they had intense spiritual experiences through drugs, and a lot of people still make this claim. How do you see the relationship between drugs and the spiritual life?
He has told us that we can reach our destination through prayer and meditation. … He has already told us to pray and meditate....
From the book Selfless service-light
Joel Martin: Can I strive for material wealth in my outer life and still be at peace in my inner life?
If we want to become the richest person on earth, for that also we can pray and meditate. … Our prayer and meditation tell us only one thing: God is all joy....
From the book Inner peace and world peace
Question: Could you speak a little more about how the soul flies to different planes during sleep?
It is through constant meditation. There is no other way. … aware of that feeling, or to have the experience of oneness, is through constant aspiration, constant meditation...
From the book The body, humanity’s fortress
Mridu-di reserves my place
Then she would sit and meditate for two hours. There would be only one or two people ahead of her. … Then I would come running to the meditation hall and go to where Mridu-di was sitting....
From the book Mridu-Di: my first and foremost mother of affection (Mridu Bhashini Devi)
An orphan boy
There was an orphan boy. His name was Madal Chinmoy. He hailed from a wee village, Shakpura. He became his Family’s ananda fuara.

He lost his Father at the age of eleven. The following year, his Mother was summoned by Heaven.

At the age of twelve, he came to Pondicherry To be a passenger of his Master’s Ferry. Sports he liked and became a mountain-champion, But neglected not his dream of God-union.

One night his Guru Supreme Entered into his sweetness-dream, Said: “Get up to meditate. Get up to meditate. In years to come you will have to navigate The birthless and deathless mankind’s sorrows To the Golden Shore of Tomorrows. Give due importance to your body, vital, mind, heart and soul To help the world reach its destined Goal.”

Madal, kettledrum of the cosmic Gods, Became Chinmoy Consciousness-full. God’s Compassion-Eye made him A teacher of His inner School. His student-life he took as his life’s bondage-night. Therefore, his heart pined for Freedom-Light.

Now that he is a teacher of the inner School, He realises that he is an unspeakable fool. Humanity’s transformation-fate Is a completely closed iron gate. He breathlessly cries to God, “Save me, my Lord, save!”

“For you, no rest. Sunlit Path you needs must pave. For you, no rest, no rest, not even a fleeting rest Because in you I have found My Heart’s Satisfaction-Nest.”

“O Lord, I am crying, bleeding and dying.”

“Who prevents you from smiling and flying?”

The whole world came to him. He desperately wanted to hide. His Absolute Lord commanded him all-where with Him to ride.

From the book An orphan boy
The Chinmoy Beena[^15]
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Every morning, the very first thing I do is meditate, meditate....

From the book His Compassion is everything to us
Question: What message do you wish to offer people through your music?
Being an Indian, I pray and meditate. This is my way of life, my lifestyle. … And I try to convey the significance of my inner prayers and meditations through my musical performances...
From the book Conversations with Sri Chinmoy
A Puerto Rican runner[^4]
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....

From the book Run and become, become and run, part 6
Question: What is the best way for me to bring new seekers to your path?
When you pray and meditate, just try to identify yourself with the inner hunger of humanity.

In your case, you pray and meditate, so you are aware of the God-Reality here on earth and there in...

From the book Perfection in the Head-World
Question: What happens if after practising spirituality for a while, you decide you want to take a rest and then continue your journey at a later time?
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...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Guru, if you tell us something in a dream, how do we know if it is true?
Sri Chinmoy: You will know whether it is true or not just by your meditation. … But if you have meditated and prayed during the day, and at night I just appeared to you without your...
From the book Earth’s dream-boat sails
Question: Do we really need a spiritual teacher?
Meditation also needs to be learned properly, and he who is wise will go to an authority on this subject … As I said before, books are available in the market about how to concentrate and meditate, but most people...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-3, No. 2, 27 February 1976
Scene 1
A Sage is meditating and his dog is lying on the floor next to him. … The Sage meditates. Soon the leopard re-enters, running.)

LEOPARD: Master, a tiger! … The Sage continues meditating. Soon the elephant comes back running.)

ELEPHANT: Oh, a lion! … You meditate.

(The Sage gives the lion a smile and starts meditating.

(The Sage turns the dog out into the forest and continues meditating....

From the book The heart of a holy man
Part X

In 1944, when this story took place, you were in the soul’s world, dreaming and meditating, meditating … God was dreaming and meditating inside you. … First you dream, then you meditate, then you reveal and then you manifest. … So, in the soul’s world, you dreamed and meditated.

That is what you were then, Sudhahota, an extraordinary dream and an extraordinary meditation....

From the book Carl Lewis: the champion inner runner
Each moment is an opportunity[^2]
Each moment during meditation is the greatest opportunity, no matter what consciousness you were in the … rest of the day, or even just before you came into the meditation hall. … If you do not meditate well owing to this or that, it does not help at all to blame a third person, or … During each moment of meditation, the Supreme is knocking at your heart’s door. … Each moment during meditation is both a golden opportunity and an inner examination....
From the book Ten divine secrets
Aspiration and dedication[^68]
These friends are concentration, meditation and contemplation.

Now I shall meditate. … When we meditate, we do not focus on a particular thing; we merge into something vast, endless, infinite … I shall meditate on the sky. You can also meditate on the sky or on something else if you like. … [Sri Chinmoy then demonstrated meditation.]

Now I shall contemplate....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
Sincerity, purity and certainty

The aspirant is supposed to meditate early in the morning and he does meditate. … What is his meditation? His meditation is his invocation of infinite Light, Peace and Bliss. … During meditation he makes a promise to himself that he will be pure, that he will be detached, that

We have to breathe in purity as we breathe in air during our meditation and during our day-to-day … But if we cried for God every day, if we meditated early in the morning for harmony, peace, bliss, plenitude...

From the book A hundred years from now
Aspiration and dedication[^11]
These friends are concentration, meditation and contemplation.

Now I shall meditate. … When we meditate we do not focus on a particular thing; we merge into something vast, endless, infinite … I shall meditate on the sky. You can also meditate on the sky or on something else if you like. … [Sri Chinmoy demonstrates meditation.]

Now I shall contemplate....

From the book My Rose Petals, part 4
Each moment[^1]
Each meditation time is the greatest opportunity, no matter which consciousness you were in in the morning … or at noon, or even just before you came into the meditation hall. … If you do not meditate well owing to this or that, blaming a third person or the entire world or even … Each meditation time is like the Supreme knocking at your heart’s door. … Each moment during meditation is both a golden opportunity and an inner examination....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 4, April 1980
Scene 2

DHRUVA: Mother, I want to pray, I want to meditate, but I don’t know how. … You will find people praying and meditating. … Ask them how to pray, how to meditate, how to invoke God — His Love and Light. They will teach you....

From the book Mother, give me the Light of Knowledge
Question: Is there anything specific I can do to have a good meditation every day?
renew our love of God and our faith in God, then I tell you that every day we are bound to do the best meditation

Why do people fail to have their best meditation everyday? … Every day when we start meditating we have to feel that with our whole heart we are offering ourselves...

From the book Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
Concentration
If you are just beginning to meditate, start by developing the power of concentration. … mind calm and vacant, millions of uncomely thoughts will enter into you and you will not be able to meditate … If you can concentrate for a few minutes each day before entering into meditation, it clears away obstacles...
From the book A child's heart and a child's dreams
12. Talks[^13]

In Narada's meditation room, he and I had a very powerful meditation. … On 1 November 1995, following a weekly Wednesday evening meditation with his disciples, Sri Chinmoy reflected...

From the book Sacred Rock welcomes Sri Chinmoy
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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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