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- Scene 3
- The thief who had overheard the King and Queen’s conversation is wearing an ochre cloth and meditating … We are all spiritual people crying for God’s Peace, Light and Bliss, and he meditates with us. … Meditation on God is Illumination, and Illumination is transcendental Delight....
- Meeting With Kazuki Furui, Deputy Mayor of Nagasaki[^3]
- When you conduct Peace Meditations at the United Nations, do you give instructions? … I pray and meditate, and those who come do the same. … We pray and meditate together, each in our own way....
- Question: Could you say something about divine love.
- But if we can enter into the Universal Consciousness through our meditation, the result or the capacity … But we have to possess it first, and for that we have to meditate. … best thing for the seekers who have just entered into the spiritual life or have done a little bit of meditation...
- Question: Is it true that first you should realise God yourself and only then help your brothers and sisters?
- In the morning when you pray and meditate, God offers you His Light, Love and Peace. … He does not know it, but because of the light you have received during your meditation, you are the one … When I look up at Him in my prayer and meditation, I am pleasing Him with my aspiration....
- Question: Guru, how can we increase our aspiration and keep it steady?
Early in the morning when you start meditating, try to make yourself feel just for a minute that today … But you must feel that if you do not aspire well, if you do not meditate well, then in the evening death … Annihilation will capture your aspiration if you do not meditate well....
- The fear of not pleasing one's Master
- A disciple can easily overcome the fear of not pleasing his Master if, during his meditation, for only
Let us say that I meditated in front of your shrine most powerfully. … Then you should say to yourself, “If Guru is not pleased with me will he meditate in front of my shrine...
- Princess Diana's spiritual dimension
When we meditated together at the very start of our meeting, I immediately felt that this was the
From my prayer-meditation-life, I wish to offer my personal feeling about Princess Diana’s spiritual … Only from our prayers and meditations do we get the message from within....
- Dilip-da and his friend Yogi Krishnaprem
- Disciples entered into the main Meditation Hall, and from there they went upstairs. … She never prayed or meditated, but she had a mystic personality and tremendous hidden depths. … But, seeing the devotion of this young Englishman, she started praying and meditating....
- Question: I have read in the writings of a modern Western philosopher that the soul and the body are inseparable. Can you please tell us your own philosophy on this matter?[^218]
- When we enter into our soul through meditation, we realise peace, light and bliss. … We have been meditating here for about twenty minutes. … are functioning properly, the body offers its capacity in service and the soul offers its capacity in meditation...
- Question: What does the Pope represent to you personally? You have met with Pope Paul VI. Did you have any significant inner experiences? What did you talk about?
- As you know, I have been leading meditations for delegates and staff there since 1970. … Thant and myself, he asked if I bring down new inspiration and aspiration from above when I conduct meditations … I answered, “Holy Father, I do try to bring down all the divine qualities with my prayers and meditations...
- Sleep
- to be more conscious of your experiences during sleep, the best thing to do is to spend more time in meditation … The soul compels you to meditate and when you meditate you get real joy....
- Question: As a pianist, sometimes I am so caught up with technique that I lose the soul or forget what I am trying to say.
- Sri Chinmoy: If you can meditate for three or four minutes before you play, your mind will be inundated … When you meditate for two or three minutes, you accumulate inner wealth — peace, light and bliss. … Because before I play, I meditate with them and we establish our oneness with one another....
- Question: Are you concerned about the current world situation, such as the conflict in Kosovo?
- Then I meditate, meditate, meditate. For what? To bring about change....
- Question: I was given a mantra and I've been using it in my meditation for a number of years.
- Eventually they gave up their mantra because they felt that it stood in the way of their deeper, higher meditation … Then you should repeat the mantra at the beginning of your meditation. … I tell disciples to do Hatha Yoga exercises for ten or fifteen minutes before they enter into deep meditation...
- The first meeting with Sri Ramakrishna
- He had a friend named Suresh, who used to meditate on the formless aspect of God, while Nag Mahashay … Sri Ramakrishna asked the two friends a few questions and then asked them to go and meditate in the Panchavati … They meditated there for half an hour and returned to Sri Ramakrishna, who then showed them all the temples...
- The inner study
- Similarly, if one does not practise yoga, if one does not have discipline, if one does not meditate,
Some spiritual Masters tell their disciples, even after they have meditated for ten years or twenty … Meditate for five minutes or ten minutes or half an hour: that is right now your study....
- Question: What do the spiritual Masters in India do when their disciples fall asleep during meditations
- Sri Chinmoy: In India, very sincere spiritual Masters ask their disciples to meditate at night in front … No matter how cold it is, the disciples have to meditate. … The next morning they meditated together and they never thought of striking each other on the physical...
- Question: I would like you to clarify your concept of God. You jump from the Upanishads to the Bhagavad-Gita and over to the New Testament with this unifying element of God. But it seems to me that the Judeo-Christian concept of a God that is both personal and infinite is a little different from the idea of God as the Absolute, the One, the Supreme Being who is obviously infinite but, it seems to me, impersonal. Could you please clarify your concept?
- Again, there are some spiritual Masters who did not meditate on God’s personal Aspect in this way. … They meditated on God in His Impersonal Aspect, as the Infinite expanse of water or Light. … God defies all definition, but again each individual, when he meditates or prays to God, feels that there...
- Followed
- I had a very good, very powerful meditation, while I was walking and walking. Nobody was there. … I am in a meditative mood.”
Was she going to listen? … I know how to meditate, so I do not have to worry.”...
- 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....
- Question: You have written: "Sri Krishna meditated and became God the divine Light. … Christ meditated and became God the divine Compassion. … God wants us to meditate to become God the divine Life."
- Sri Chinmoy: Indeed, Abraham, Moses and Mohammed were also God’s representatives on earth. God’s conscious servants are like a family with many members. Suppose there is a family with ten members, who are all endowed with exceptional musical talents. You happen to be one of the brothers, and you give preference to some of your...
- Visiting the Ashram
- With folded hands I was meditating. … Meditate as long as you want to.”
I said, "I cannot sit.”
He said, “Oh, you are a big shot! … Go and stand there and meditate as long as you want.”
One of the guards saw me meditating and others came to know that I was meditating in Sri Aurobindo...
- Perfection[^41]
- If we say that we have aspiration, we are right because we do think of God and meditate on God at times … When I meditate, my entire body meditates with me. … I do not have to think of my internal organs; they are inside me, meditating and aspiring with me. … Similarly, during your concentration, meditation and contemplation, if you can feel that the entire universe...
- Question: It is said that if one can sit on the floor with his legs crossed for an hour or so without any thought or any feeling, just completely quiet and peaceful, some kind of inner energy or inner force would arise from underneath the navel, and that force would circulate within the body. I never have had that kind of experience. When I practise concentration sometimes one foot will become warm, sometimes both feet will become warm, but I never have that experience of the navel energy awakening from inside. Some people call it Kundalini.
- If you have the capacity, you can even lie down and meditate. You can run and meditate. … Meditation has to come from deep within like the cry of a child hungry for food. … You should meditate on your heart centre to get peace and love and joy. … When you meditate, do not stiffen your body....
- Question: How can we maintain a good standard consistently, instead of going up and down?
- Today you have done wonderful meditation and then you feel, “Oh, since today I have done such wonderful … meditation, tomorrow I can relax.” … You feel that with today’s meditation you will maintain the same speed tomorrow, but it does not happen … But every day when we meditate, we have to feel that this is the last day for us. … Then you are bound to get a good meditation. Otherwise, there is no goal....
- Setting a spiritual example
Early in the morning, if you get up to pray and meditate with folded hands, for a few days your child … If his father or his mother can meditate, what is wrong with his doing it? … Then the child will sit beside you and meditate. The best example is the parent's own life. … You may tell your children, “Get up at seven o'clock and pray and meditate" but the next morning you
If you ask your children to get up and meditate and you yourself do the same, automatically they get...
- Perfection[^10]
- If we say that we have aspiration, we are right because we do think of God and meditate on God at times … When I meditate, my entire body meditates with me. … I do not have to think of my internal organs; they are inside me, meditating and aspiring with me. … Similarly, during your concentration, meditation and contemplation, if you can feel that the entire universe...
- Can you tell anything about what happened to the soul of America during the Fourth of July public meditation
- When we started meditating at midnight, only a second or two after I started meditating, I saw the worst … At that time I used to hold the highest meditations, absolutely the highest. … Since then I have not descended from my spiritual height, but no matter how sincerely, how powerfully I meditate … If I meditate for five minutes, in five minutes I bring down an absolute sea of Peace, Light and Bliss...
- Meeting With Beth Day Romulo
- That is meditation. … In meditation we come to realise that we and God are one. … This is what meditation does for us. … They were praying and meditating while I was playing. I also prayed and meditated while playing.
My prayer-life and meditation-life can never end....
- Scene 1
GAUTAMI: My son, you and I have come to the forest to meditate on God. … While you are singing, I shall meditate. … And when your singing is over, you also join me in meditation.
SON: Certainly I shall do so. … Gautami meditates with her eyes closed. Suddenly a snake comes and bites the son. … He screams and Gautami’s meditation is disturbed. She sees the snake. The son’s face becomes pale....