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- The asura is burnt to ashes
- Then he started meditating and meditating and meditating. He meditated for centuries.
The asura replied, “I have prayed and meditated. I have pleased you. … Lord Shiva said, “You have pleased me immensely with your prayer and meditation....
- You or I?[^15]
When I think of the divine within my heart, when I meditate on the divine within my heart, I see, … When I meditate on the undivine or think of the undivine, I choose mental limitation to be my own. … Each moment that I meditate on the undivine, I enjoy, consciously enjoy, despair, frustration, limitation … strength of your dedication to the world at large, you need the Divine in you to think of you and to meditate
When we meditate on the Absolute Supreme within us, we see how clearly, how fruitfully, both “you”...
- Individuality and personality
When you are meditating, your own individuality and personality are there, but you are also expanding … When you look at someone else during your meditation, you extend your consciousness. … For example, when people meditate in front of me, even if their children are not here, sometimes I see … Sometimes the children feel very deeply moved by the parents’ meditation even when the children are at
Suppose you are doing a high meditation at the Centre....
- Question: Guru, on April 13th, 1964, what was the weather like? When you came out into the air, were you surprised by the cooler air on your face? Did it shock you at all?[^6]
When I came to New York, I used to meditate for hours, and I enjoyed window-shopping! … Every night I used to meditate and meditate, and then talk to the Lord Buddha. … I used to meditate and talk, talk, talk to the Lord Buddha.
Greenwich Village! … In the meditation hall at the Ashram are his portraits of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. … They are absolutely living beings, his portraits in the meditation hall....
- Just for today
Just for today, I shall meditate on God. I know that when I meditate on God, I empty my heart. … When I meditate, my Eternal Friend comes in and fulfils my inner need. … When I meditate, He talks and I listen to Him. This is how we converse. … My prayer and my meditation are of paramount importance in my life of aspiration, dedication and surrender … We work, we serve, we pray, we meditate each moment in conscious dedication, and the result of this dedication...
- Affection from the Master or the disciples?[^1]
- I pray and meditate every day, and I listen to you always, yet I am unhappy."
"Son, you pray and meditate every day, but you do not do it soulfully. … may be some who are not jealous of you, but who want to imitate you because they feel that you are meditating … If a disciple who has not been meditating at all in the morning knows that you meditate every morning … at five o'clock, then if he also begins to meditate at that hour — not to compete with you or to take...
- Devotion and eagerness, love and faith[^17]
- When I invite you to come and sit on the tennis court, those who can come down to meditate will perhaps … bleachers are very sincerely and seriously praying, but there are also some who want to enjoy a comfortable meditation … Comfort and meditation do not rhyme! … But if you want to be farther than the farthest and enjoy your meditation in your own way, then you are … the night is heavily descending, or in the small hours of the morning, these are the best times for meditation...
- Just for today[^7]
Just for today, I shall meditate on God. I know that when I meditate on God, I empty my heart. … When I meditate, my Eternal Friend comes in and fulfils my inner need. … When I meditate, He talks and I listen to Him. This is how we converse. … My prayer and my meditation are of paramount importance in my life of aspiration, dedication and surrender … We work, we serve, we pray, we meditate each moment in conscious dedication, and the result of this dedication...
- Question: Could you speak a little about the significance of dreams?[^133]
If we want to have sweet and inspiring dreams, then we should meditate most soulfully early in the … Those who meditate daily will not find this difficult to do, but others may find it difficult. … He does it on the strength of his meditation. … Someone who meditates expands his consciousness into all three planes. … Or if we can meditate, that will be an even mightier strength....
- News of the mission[^9]
- Each university of these twenty-five has a meditation group, either large or small, where they meditate … So each institution’s meditation group will come up to the front of the hall and meditate with me for … Then I shall give a talk on meditation. … If you meditate on me, you are bound to feel this. … If he or she does not feel me, that means that that person is not meditating on me but meditating on...
- Question: Does gratitude also help to increase our receptivity during meditation?[^178]
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, a gratitude-heart is of paramount importance. You can be most receptive on the strength of your own simplicity, sincerity, purity and humility. When you bring to the fore these divine qualities, which you have inside you, then you can receive the utmost. And inside simplicity, inside sincerity, inside purity,...
- Question: How can we use flowers to help us in our meditation?
If you can do this during your meditation, then your heart will become purer than the purest, and...
- Question: Could you please tell us the value of practising transcendental meditation?
- I have not practised transcendental meditation....
- Question: Can mantra meditation take you all the way to the Goal?
- The mantric power can easily take one to the Highest, as prayer and meditation do....
- Question: During meditation, can one enter into the level of unconscious thought?
- While meditating, the very aim of the person is to climb to the Highest. … So in your meditation, you have to take your whole existence as a unit, as a complete totality....
- Yoga
- But on the strength of our prayer and meditation, we are hoping that there shall come a time when ignorance … when this ignorance-night will be transformed into wisdom-delight by virtue of our soulful prayers and meditations...
- Gossip: World-Destruction And Self-Destruction
- The time you spend gossiping, can you not spend that time praying and meditating?"
"But I do not get any joy in prayer and meditation; whereas in gossip, I get tremendous joy....
- Question: Sometimes I feel I am doing well in my spiritual life, and at other times I hear a voice telling me how awful I am, how impatient I am and so on.
- When you are meditating it is like a mother encouraging her child. … When you meditate soulfully you will get such joy that your very patience will say, "Look!...
- Question: How can a person detach himself emotionally from irritating people and situations?
- But if there is a quiet corner where you can meditate undisturbed by others and bring down peace, then … Otherwise, the best thing to do is to invoke peace during your morning and evening meditations, and keep...
- Human ascent and divine descent
- While we are praying and meditating, we have to feel that we are manifesting; and while we are doing … selfless service we have to feel that this is also real meditation....
- Lord of my life, Friend of my heart
O sweet Lord, I know, I know to think of You, to meditate on You, is to be found doing something for … Alas, alas, since I am not found doing something for You, that means I do not think of You, I do not meditate...
- Why are you in a hurry?
- Is that why you are in a tearing hurry to pray and meditate and thus see the Face of God? … Is that why you are in a hurry to meditate, to dive within to do the needful sooner than at once?...
- Aspiration
My aspiration embodies concentration, meditation and contemplation.
Concentration is my speed.
Meditation is my depth, my silence-depth....
- Concentration[^3]
Each human being on earth is a God-representative, but concentration, meditation and contemplation … Meditation is the heart-divinity's vastness....
- Two beggars[^3]
- Makdun used to roam from one place to another, all the time praying and meditating. … Even while walking along the street he would be praying and meditating....
- Question: When we want to concentrate or meditate on a special thought or problem, how should we
- If it is a serious problem, naturally you will have to meditate on it for a long time. … But unfortunately, we do unconsciously meditate on bad thoughts....
- Perfection[^2]
- The seeker needs perfection in his meditation. … The seeker’s perfect meditation is: “God for God’s sake, always.”...
- Question: How can I best utilise the physical earthbound time that I am living in?
- This second you can use either for meditation or for gossip. … If you pray and meditate, if you play your part in the spiritual life, then even if realisation still...
- Question: How can I make the staff members of the United Nations feel that the Meditation Group is
- Here at the United Nations, the Meditation Group is like a mother. … give, but not to say that what you give is the only thing worthwhile in God’s creation, or that the Meditation...
- Question: How can a person detach himself emotionally from irritating people and situations?
- But if there is a quiet corner where you can meditate undisturbed by others and bring down peace, then … Otherwise, the best thing to do is to invoke peace during your morning and evening meditations, and keep...