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- Question: After meditating I see blue spots. What does that mean?
- Sri Chinmoy: Very good. When you see blue light, it is very good. Blue represents Infinity and real spirituality. It is a very good thing; it means that you are getting special Grace and Blessings from God. Each colour has a special quality. Blue is Infinity; green is new life; red is divine Power. It is fine to see these...
- Question: Is there a difference between height and depth in meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: When we remain in the Universal Consciousness, when we remain inside the spiritual heart, we notice that the height and the depth are one. At that time there is no difference between height and depth. But when we come out of the Universal Consciousness, then we fail to see everything as one and inseparable. At that...
- Question: Can we do our meditation without doing concentration exercises first?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you want to learn meditation without going through concentration, you must feel that...
- John Hanc: While running, is it also a time to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: For others I cannot speak, but in my case when I am jogging or walking, I am in a very high consciousness. At that time the world of thought ceases and I am in another world — not the thought-world but the world of self-giving and serving. While running, a runner is all joy unless he is suffering from muscle cramps...
- Question: Sometimes when I am meditating, I experience the demanding vital.
- Sri Chinmoy: When you demand something, you have to feel that you are acting like a beggar woman. A beggar begs, "Give me a nickel, give me a dollar." When a beggar begs, he always expects. In his mind there is always the hope that he will get five cents or ten cents or one dollar. Although he is begging, there is a demanding...
- Question: How can we stop thoughts from bothering us during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: We have to make an effort to calm and quiet our mind. We can call this a kind of inner exercise. If we do it every day, sooner or later we are bound to succeed. Let the fly bother me as many times as it wants to, but each time it comes I will try to chase it away. Each time an undivine thought enters into my mind,...
- Question: What causes a twisted feeling in the heart during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: This twisted feeling is nothing but an opening of the heart centre. Now the heart centre may take a few months or a few years or many, many years to open, but when you feel a kind of twisted feeling, a twinge, it signifies the inner opening of the heart centre. What causes the feeling? It is your inner aspiration....
- Question: After meditating I see blue spots. What does that mean?
- Sri Chinmoy: Very good. When you see blue light, it is very good. Blue represents infinity and real spirituality. It is a very good thing; it means that you are getting special Grace and Blessings from God. All the colours have their qualities. Blue is infinity; green is new life; red is divine power. It is fine to see these...
- Question: When people who have never meditated with a spiritual Master before come to a public meditation
- Since I am a spiritual man, those who come to meditate with me should come with sincerity and then should...
- Donna Halper: Is it possible that a person could not be ready to meditate at one time, and yet at … another time be ready to meditate?
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- Question: Sometimes after meditating I lose the joy that I have received from my meditation.
- The quantity that you have got during the meditation has satisfied you but you are not in a position...
- Question: Could you say something about breathing in meditation? … Are there any practical ways in which breathing can be regulated which will be beneficial to meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: Breathing is of paramount importance during meditation....
- The disciple blesses the Master
- attention by granting them interviews whenever they asked, giving them individual blessing-flowers during meditation … After the meditation was finished, the Master said to them, “My dearest spiritual children, I show you … I don’t know about the others, but even while you were gone I meditated every morning in my house and … came to all the meditations at the Centre.”
“Yes, you meditated. But were you meditating on God or on your friends?...
- Question: How can we regain the intense aspiration we had when we first became disciples?
- True, you have achieved and received something; you have done very good meditation, excellent meditation … You may feel that in this incarnation you have meditated so many times extremely well and you have done … But if by meditating once in a blue moon you have got so much wealth, then by meditating constantly and … Even human greed will tell you that you have got so much in spite of not meditating consciously, devotedly … lethargic, in spite of being an imperfect instrument, I have got so much just by haphazardly praying and meditating...
- Sacrifice
- But if you want to offer Peace to somebody else, then you have to pray and meditate for a long, long … If this same person is asked by his spiritual Master to make a spiritual sacrifice by meditating for … of meditation. … Your meditation is your inner discovery. … If we meditate well daily, then we can feel that it is not only a discovery, but an invention....
- Question: When I think of you, are you aware of my thought?
At night when I meditate, I get all the important messages from my dearest disciples. … For disciples like this, no matter what I am doing, even if I am in my highest meditation, if they are … Otherwise, the moment you leave this meditation hall, you will go to the cafeteria or some place and … I have seen many times that when you leave the meditation hall, you throw your spiritual wealth into...
- Mistakes made while praying
- To eliminate strain while meditating or praying, try to focus all your attention on the heart, not on … Each time you pray or meditate, feel that you are digging inside. … One has been praying and meditating for half an hour.
If our prayer and meditation are informal, this does not mean they are bad....
- No nation is unwanted[^13]
- A nation can be happy, purposeful and fulfilled if it thinks less and meditates more.
Meditation and action have a different story. Illumining meditation is self-discovery. … The more one can meditate soulfully, the sooner he reaches his destination....
- Oneness with the Will of God[^18]
- The founder of Sikhism, Nanak, was meditating one day with a group of disciples near a Hindu temple. … Evening had set in, and Nanak asked them to meditate with him. … They all meditated for some time, but the meditation was not deep, for they were still harbouring anger...
- Security in devotion
In order to come to this highest stage of detachment, the seeker should always meditate on being a … We need to meditate on Peace, Light, Bliss and all other divine qualities so that we can hold and embody … If we do not have that kind of meditation and aspiration, then automatically ignorance will make us cherish … So meditate on acquiring these divine qualities and when you have them in abundant measure then you can...
- Question: Sometimes when I meditate, I feel that I am about to go through some experience, but nothing
It is the same with your meditation.
While you are praying and meditating, imagine that you have a bicycle inside you. … While you are meditating you have to aspire all the time; otherwise you will fall. … When we start meditating early in the morning, if we think, “Today I have to get the highest experience...
- Question: In your talk yesterday you said that if we do less thinking and planning we will be happier. Could you elaborate on this, please?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, yesterday I said think less and meditate more, and plan less and act more. … But each time we meditate we are illumined.
But if we have an inner will, the soul’s will, which has come to us from meditation, then the action … And although the bird stays inside the body, when we pray and meditate it constantly brings us the message...
- Vibrations and the Master's presence
- Don't feel that just because you are meditating and have a Master, you are leading a superior life. … But in your meditation, of course, you might get one hundred out of one hundred.
If you are always able to keep your consciousness very high, as in deep meditation, then only can … I gave her a particular meditation to use to invoke the Supreme whenever she was in difficulty or danger...
- Who can grant me peace?[^94]
- If I can think of Him in this way during my prayer and meditation, then I will always feel His Sweetness … When I think of God as the Supreme Dreamer, and meditate on God as the Supreme Dreamer, He will grant … Early in the morning, before I pray and meditate, every day I must enter into my mind-jungle and discard … And if I pray soulfully and meditate devotedly and unconditionally, I am bound to receive peace from...
- Question: Do you think one should work in the world or retire to an ashram to realise God?
- If you enter into a room and close the door and then feel that you will be able to meditate, you will … If a spiritual Master has an ashram and the seeker goes there to meditate, that is wonderful. … But if all seekers renounce the world and enter into monasteries or secluded places to meditate, then … please God more than those who enter into a room and think of all the undivine thoughts in the name of meditation...
- Mother, give me the Light of Knowledge, the Light of Discrimination and the Light of Renunciation
- Inside the Kali Temple, Naren is meditating.
(Naren turns to the statue and begins meditating again.) … I shall meditate while you sing.
(Naren sings. Sri Ramakrishna meditates in deep trance.)...
- Editor's preface to the first edition
- Using concentrative powers developed through meditation, Sri Chinmoy wrote the 843 poems in this volume...
- 6 October 1995, Palais Ferstel Vienna, Austria
- ever-increasing love and gratitude, my students and I have been serving the United Nations with our prayers and meditations...
- Question: Sometimes when I talk to people about you a kind of fear comes over me. It enters into me and creates doubt and insecurity.
- It is best to meditate on the person for a few minutes before you say anything....
- Scene 2
- (Vashishtha is meditating, deep in trance. Enter Saraswati.)...