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- Question: How can you reinforce your spiritual aspiration when you feel it is wavering?[^172]
- If you find it difficult to meditate, what you should do at that time is read inspiring books written … You can go to a place where spiritual people are praying and meditating, or you can talk to spiritual...
- Act III, Scene 3
- Matsyendranath is seated in meditation, surrounded by his disciples. … Enter Gorakshanath with another Matsyendranath, who goes to the meditating Matsyendranath and enters...
- Today is a very good and special day[^53]
- Today is a very good and special day for me to meditate on God. … Today, while I am meditating on God, I clearly see that my self-giving is nothing short of my God-becoming...
- A true seeker[^80]
- A true seeker is he who sleeplessly meditates on God and yet deliberately remains unconscious of his … meditation....
- Question: Should we look at you with our hands folded while we meditate?
- He thinks he has meditated but he has only slept. Unconscious is the right word.
When you keep your eyes open, it is called the lion's meditation....
- Question: Is there any way that we can avoid minor illnesses like colds?
- Since you are all seekers, every day you pray and meditate. … All these things come to you during your prayer and meditation....
- Question: Could you please tell us a little about your philosophy and your way of life?
- increase and multiply our good qualities and, at the same time, on the strength of our prayers and meditations … My students practise meditation and follow the spiritual life, and at the same time, they have their...
- Question: I see so much joy here at the tennis court. While playing tennis, you were making so much noise — "OK, I got it! I got it!" — great screams of joy. What is happening inside you at that point?
- If we want to feel this joy, we have to pray and meditate, for that is how we will grow into the very … Even for five minutes if we have a deep meditation, it will inundate us with peace and joy....
- Question: What are the main reasons why new disciples leave after a short while?
Unfortunately, when most of the disciples who have been with us for many, many years meditate, there … If you do your prayer and meditation unwillingly, reluctantly, how will you get the same result as those...
- Question: How can we best embody your light when teaching your philosophy in a class?
- Before you go to the class, meditate for at least fifteen minutes. … You are meditating on my divinity, which is also your divinity....
- Question: I wish to realise God. How long will it take?
- The only thing I can tell you is that you have to pray and meditate regularly in the morning and evening
Your only duty is to pray to God and meditate on God. That is everybody’s duty....
- Question: Guru, where do these undivine thoughts come from?
- Think of me, meditate on me; throw the thoughts into me. Then you will get relief. … So, when you meditate, concentrate on the navel for a while for purity....
- Question: Apart from giving you reports or telling you important things, do the souls of your disciples ever come to you just out of joy or gratitude?
- Later that night, the soul of the disciple came to me and I meditated on her. … The next morning when I was meditating on the disciple, this soul came to me and at last the physical...
- Question: How does the soul deal with good and evil and prevent us from doing wrong?
The first way is through concentration, meditation and contemplation: If one knows how to do these … During your soulful meditation, you can ask God for strength, solid strength, spiritual strength....
- Question: Is it possible to follow the spiritual path and to have a family also?
- To follow a spiritual path does not mean you have to go into the Himalayan caves to meditate. … We are all instruments of God, but those who are practising meditation and spiritual disciplines, those...
- Introduction[^2]
- United Nations community since 1970 when the then Secretary-General U Thant invited him to hold peace meditations … He has continued to offer twice-weekly meditations since that time for ambassadors, United Nations officials...
- Joop Koopman: What do you make of the great interest in spirituality in the US, much of it in the form of the pursuit of, if not quasi-religions and movements, then a sometimes vague New Age-ism?
- achieve anything or become anything new, then we have to be very, very strict with our inner prayers and meditations … Progress depends on our surrender, inner and outer, to God's Will while we are praying and meditating...
- Marty Gallagher: How do you know the moment to actually grab the bar and lift?
- That is what we are doing with our prayer-life and meditation-life. … When we pray and meditate, we are getting God’s Strength....
- Question: I find it easier the other way around.
- You feel that others are meditating twenty-four hours a day, whereas you are not meditating for even...
- Question: Why is death necessary? Why can't the soul keep on progressing and evolving in the same body?
- Out of sixty or seventy years we may meditate for twenty days or thirty days and, even then, for only … An ordinary human being cannot aspire in his meditation for four hours, two hours, or even one hour at...
- Question: In my meditation and in my spiritual life, I feel that I am fighting against time because
- You have meditated, let us say, in your previous incarnations; and in this incarnation you have also … meditated for a number of years....
- Question: Why is death necessary? Why can't the soul keep on progressing and evolving in the same body?
- Out of sixty or seventy years we may meditate for twenty days or thirty days and, even then, for only … An ordinary human being cannot aspire in his meditation for four hours, two hours, or even one hour at...
- Question: When I meditate on you, I feel that I enter into you as a personal God.
When you are concentrating on me, meditating on me, you are absolutely right in feeling that you enter … At the time when I meditate right in front of you, in front of the disciples, here and in New York, I...
- Question: Guru, what is the highest kind of purity I can aspire to?
- You should meditate on the transcendental Light. … Please pray for and meditate on the inner light, the higher light, so that light can enter into your...
- Spirituality is not cleverness[^34]
- Dear ones, once a week we have our compulsory meditation. … On that day, can you not meditate for half an hour or an hour more? … than if you meditate for only five minutes? … Yes, there is a theory that it is better to meditate for five minutes with utmost soulfulness than to
True, I have made it compulsory to attend our collective meditation once a week, but in many ways...
- Bill McCreary: What is the procedure for your lifting?
- You hold meditations at the U.N. You have been doing that for the last seventeen years. … But if we pray and meditate early in the morning, inwardly we become good citizens of the world. … So are you saying that a person should become a meditator and then he will be able to lift weights and
Sri Chinmoy: I am not telling people to meditate in order to lift up weights, far from it! … I pray and meditate in order to become a good person and not to become a bodybuilder or a weightlifter...
- Question: Can intense devotion and longing for God go together with an attitude of divine surrender where there is no preconceived idea or preference other than the desire for the fulfilment of God's Will, or are the two approaches mutually exclusive?[^6]
- Again, I may get up early in the morning and pray and meditate. … To realise God, we have to pray and meditate and do many things. … Before that, he prayed, he meditated and he gave people illumination. … I got that message in my meditation long ago.” Can you imagine! … This was the same brother who said that I never prayed and meditated....
- Question: Can you reveal the inner secrets of meditation to me?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, I can, provided you accept me as your spiritual guide and I am in a position to accept you as my student. The disciples whom I have accepted will definitely see the divine Light with my inner assistance and under the express guidance of the Supreme, who is my Guru, your Guru and...
- Question: When I meditate, I have this pressure in my head.
- But if you meditate in the heart, there can be no fear. It is all oneness....
- Question: Would you speak a little about proper breathing in meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you are a beginner and want to breathe correctly, you should sit with your spinal cord erect. Now, while breathing, you have to think first of purity. Another thing can be done to further develop this sense of purity in the breath. For a few minutes, try to imagine a flower or a candle flame or incense —...