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- Question: I want to have higher experiences in my meditation.
Vivekananda had prayed and meditated for six or seven years. … Early in the morning, you prayed and meditated. You did everything good and divine....
- Question: The other night we were meditating and you asked us for the date and hour of our birth. … Then you meditated on our exact hour of birth. … I would like to know the real meaning of that meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: First, I asked all of you to tell me about your birthday. Then, when I knew your birthday, I put a special concentration on it and immediately entered into the day your soul took a physical body and came into the world. At that time my special blessings entered into the soul. I have the power not only to bless your...
- Question: Yesterday when I was meditating, I got a message from the silence which said, "Love one … When we get this kind of message in our meditation, should we meditate on it and take it into ourselves
- Sri Chinmoy: When we get a message in our mind during meditation, we have to know whether it is in the
Suppose you are meditating and after a few minutes a thought or idea comes into your mind....
- Question: Could you speak a little about the significance of dreams?
- Those who meditate daily will not find it difficult to do. But others may find it difficult. … He does it on the strength of his meditation. … But one who meditates widens his consciousness into all three planes. … Or you can meditate. That will be an even mightier strength. … Through your meditation. He will eventually get joy from the event because it belongs to him....
- The goal of transcendence
- If one can meditate early in the morning, between three or four o'clock, he will get tremendous inspiration … But this does not mean that if he meditates at that time every day he will realise God in a week's time … Regular, sincere and soulful meditation is the only way to have a truly disciplined life. … But before meditation one should practice concentration. … Then when he enters into deep meditation, he will get confidence, inner confidence and assurance....
- Question: About two weeks ago, a Hatha Yoga Master came to the United Nations and said that first you must conquer and overcome the body and only then can the Supreme be manifested. What are your feelings about this?
- We become aware of our inner, spiritual life only through prayer and meditation.
Suppose we want to meditate in the morning. … are physically weak, if we have a stomach ache or headache or some other ailment, then how will we meditate … exercises are all right, but if we do Indian exercises, asanas, we get a kind of relaxation that helps in meditation … But as long as we continue to pray and meditate, our inner capacities will go on increasing until we...
- A meeting with the Secretary-General on 7 March 1977
- You are also doing the same with your prayer and meditation at the United Nations. … sincerely grateful to you, for you are offering your depth and vision to the United Nations through the Meditation … On Tuesdays and Fridays, in the special meditations we hold here at the United Nations, I regularly offer … hand on my right shoulder and holding my right hand, he said to me, “Please tell the members of your Meditation … I am offering you on behalf of our Meditation Group our heart’s deepest gratitude.”...
- Drugs
- But I have meditated, and I have realised the Highest. … But when one prays, when one meditates, when one contemplates, one enters into the living Consciousness … difference between the experiences that they had had with drugs and the experiences they could get from meditation … After a while they began to get real spiritual experiences from their meditation. … They say that the difference between drug experiences and meditation experiences is like the difference...
- Question: In your heavy lifts, do you lift the weight from the ground?
- Sri Chinmoy: On the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life, I feel the Presence of God, my Inner … Sri Chinmoy: Each person has his own prayer, his own meditation. … In this school, we pray and meditate, each in his own way, and then we dive deep within and find our … Since I practise the prayer-life and meditation-life, I feel God's Grace at every moment of my life. … But in silence I pray and meditate before each lift....
- Question: I would like to know the difference between material selfless service and spiritual selfless service.
Spiritual selfless service takes place in your deep meditation. … Or if someone is suffering in some other way, you may try in your meditation to help him. … So in your highest meditation, when you are aspiring most intensely, you will have no desire either for...
- Question: What should I do if I see you on the street?
- If you are in a meditative mood when you see me, well and good. … As I have said, if you meditate twenty-four hours a day, you will become insane. … Just because you think you are not in your highest meditation, do not try to hide....
- Question: Guru, is it all right if we whisper "The Invocation" so as not to disturb others who are sleeping?
- You can pray in silence; you can meditate in silence. … But meditation has to be always in silence. There is no other way. … Meditation and concentration have to be all in silence....
- Question: How can we tell if we have met our Master?
- Now, I am a spiritual Master and today we have all come here to pray and meditate and create a spiritual … When I called my disciples up to meditate, I saw that everyone else in the audience was meditating in...
- Question: Sometimes I feel like going out for a run, but something inside holds me back. It's like an inner battle going on. Yet when I do run I feel very happy.
If the soul says to pray and meditate, it will be very easy for the body to believe. … It is time to pray and meditate." … Then, after a few minutes, this same heart will have no more energy left to pray and meditate....
- Question: In one of your talks you said that if we do less thinking and more meditating, less planning
- But each time we meditate, we are illumined. … Although it stays inside the body, when we pray and meditate it constantly brings us the message of the … If we have an inner will, the soul’s will, which has come to us from meditation, then the action is no...
- Question: Should a disciple bring his bad qualities forward when he is in front of you?
- Once a disciple went to his Master and said, “The whole day I have been praying and meditating. … During the day, when the disciple was praying and meditating, these forces were hiding. … he is so that he will become disgusted with his spiritual life and say, “O Master, I have prayed and meditated...
- Question: I want to be in the spiritual life only.
At this moment, by holding meditation I am fulfilling the Supreme. … Right now I am answering your questions, and half an hour ago we had a very good, soulful meditation. … You have just meditated. That is wonderful....
- Hawaii anecdotes[^5]
- I was meditating, so I just smiled at him. Then he continued, “It is not safe.” … I was walking and meditating as usual. Ahead of me I saw a tall man who was drinking. … I was having a very high meditation while I was walking....
- Question: In your talk about death, you mentioned something that I would like you to elaborate on a little more. I understand that you asked yourself a question. You said, "Why does the physical body die?" And then, in answering that question, you mentioned that the time would come when the physical body would last indefinitely. Will you please explain that a little further?
- I don’t get up in the morning to meditate because the body does not want to. … As soon as the body starts praying or meditating, immediately it thinks of the office, the children, … At present, we meditate for one day and then we take a holiday for ten days....
- 28. Agni
At the age of nineteen I first saw Agni during my highest state of meditation. … But one day at the age of nineteen, while I was meditating very deeply, Agni Devata, the highest god,
At the present time, of course, I don’t have to meditate deeply to be blessed by Agni....
- Question: I would like to know the difference between material selfless service and spiritual selfless service.
Spiritual selfless service takes place in your deep meditation. … Or if someone is suffering in some other way, you may try, in your meditation, to help him. … So at this time, in your highest meditation, in your deepest concentration, when you are in your most...
- Earth Day — 1975[^6]
Mother Earth, powerfully you concentrate, soulfully you meditate and 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...
- Question: In the beginning of my spiritual life I had a lot of enthusiasm but it has waned. How can I continue to make steady progress?
- We also have to study, to meditate with greatest enthusiasm, but it is a mistake to set a date for the … life there comes a time, after five or fifteen or even thirty years, depending on God’s Will, when meditation … Once our meditation is spontaneous, we no longer experience enthusiasm for five minutes, and then spend...
- Jago Amar Swapan Sathi
Jago amar swapan sathiJago amar praner pran
Jago amar chokher jyotiRishi kabi murtiman
Jago jago jagoJago amar bishal hiya
Byapta jaha bishwamoyJago amar sei chetana
Bishwatite shesh ja noyJago jago jago
Jago amar dhyani swarupJago amar badha jib
Sarba jiber tandra tutiJago amar mukta Shib
Jago jago jago
Translation
Arise, awake, O Friend of my dream.Arise, awake, O Breath of my life.
Arise, awake, O Light of my eyes.O Seer-Poet in me,
Do manifest Yourself in me and through me.Arise, awake, O vast heart within me.
Arise, awake, O consciousness of mine,Which is always transcending the universe
And its own life of the Beyond.Arise, awake, O Form of my meditation
transcendental.Arise, awake, O bound divinity in humanity.
Arise, awake, O my heart’s Liberator, Shiva,And free mankind from its ignorance-sleep.
- Totapuri[^39]
- In the beginning when Sri Ramakrishna was meditating very hard, Totapuri gave him some instructions....
- 19 August 1995, Julia Richman High School, New York, New York
- Our Peace Meditation at the United Nations has completed twenty-five years....
- Question: How can we transform our sexual desires?
- Sri Chinmoy: When you have received some light from your meditation, concentrate on your heart and feel...
- Question: If we feel elated or depressed and we don't know the reason for it, can there be an inner reason?
- Today, while one particular disciple was going home after the meditation at the United Nations, I saw...
- Question: Is there aspiration in each part of us: soul, heart, mind, vital and physical?
- Then, when the body is ready to meditate, the heart is not aspiring....
- Question: Is the power of one's prayer more potent on one's birthday?
- So five or six days before their birthday, they pray and meditate with utmost sincerity, love and devotion...