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- Question: How can you tell the difference between true intuition and imagination?
- Chinmoy: If you soulfully follow a spiritual path for a few months, if your prayer, concentration and meditation … When you meditate early in the morning, your inner being will tell you what is going to happen, what...
- Question: Is it important for a spiritual aspirant to have satisfaction?
- Early in the morning, meditate. … After meditation, if you are not very happy or peaceful, if you feel that peace has not descended, just...
- Question: Is it important for a spiritual aspirant to have satisfaction?[^194]
- Early in the morning, meditate. … After meditation, if you are not very happy, if you feel that peace has not descended, just offer your...
- Question: What is Light?
This experience we get only when we meditate. … When we meditate, we get inner peace, peace of mind....
- Question: In India they have an ancient spiritual tradition of feeding mendicants. Here, it seems to me a renunciant could easily starve. Do you agree?
- If they are devoting themselves to God, if they want only to pray and meditate, then I feel they should … only helping them meet their basic needs so that they can remain on earth and continue praying and meditating...
- Act IV, Scene 3
- Gorakshanath is sitting in meditation. Enter two starved-looking peasants.) … Gorakshanath continues meditating. Enter Matsyendranath.)...
- Aspiration[^19]
My aspiration embodies concentration, meditation and contemplation.
Concentration is my speed.
Meditation is my depth, my silence-depth....
- PERFECTION[^88]
- The seeker needs perfection in his meditation. … The seeker’s perfect meditation is: “God for God’s sake, always.”...
- Concentration[^121]
Each human being on earth is a God-representative, but concentration, meditation and contemplation … Meditation is the heart-divinity’s vastness....
- Question: You were talking about the New Millennium and how, like in the theatre if you do not go inside at the third bell, then you cannot go inside any more. So for this New Millennium, God's Hour has struck. Can you speak more about this?
- Usually I started meditating at seven minutes past two and continued for two or three hours. … Once while I was meditating, a hostile force took the form of Lord Vishnu. It was most beautiful!...
- Dr. Davis: It appears to me that when you start on the spiritual path, that is when the evil things come at you at a more intense pace.
- So we pray and meditate and God inundates us with His Compassion and His Grace to fight against these
When I started practising meditation, I used to go to religious book stores and pick up the books...
- Interviewer: That is wonderful! I don't think you need it, obviously.
Sri Chinmoy: Everything that I do comes from my life of prayer and meditation. … Through my prayer and meditation, I try only to be receptive to God’s Grace, which is descending from...
- Question: Do we lose all our progress when we die and then do we have to start from the beginning in our next incarnation?
- When we start our journey, we cannot meditate for five minutes. … Then, after two or three months, or years, we can meditate for two hours without any difficulty....
- A hundred years from now
- Everyone should and must meditate to realise the Highest here on earth in this life. … When you enter into your highest meditation and reach your Goal, the breath of silence will compel the...
- Question: How can we avoid tension in our aspiration?
- We are seekers; we are praying, meditating and devoting our lives to God. We are doing our best. … Every day we are doing our prayer and meditation, so now it is up to God to grant us realisation in His...
- 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: After a few hours of working at Annam Brahma, I get a strong desire to go up into a nice, cool, breezy tree house and go to sleep. How can I conquer this desire?
I have my harpsichord in the meditation room. … Right now, let us say, I am in the basement, so if I want to play, I have to come to the meditation room...
- Question: What is the greatest stumbling block for most seekers and how can it be overcome?
- We may say, "Oh, I have prayed and meditated for so many years. … When we meditate on God, we challenge doubt; and in the sea of peace and self-assurance, our doubt dissolves...
- Question: Why is it that I find it so difficult to surrender to my inner life?
- You have to feel that if you do not pray, if you do not meditate, then you will be totally lost; if you
There are millions and billions of people on earth who are not praying and meditating, but they still...
- Question: If some disciples' behaviour affects the attendance of other disciples at meditations,
- They are coming to look at my Transcendental Photograph and pray and meditate. … On our compulsory meditation day they have to come....
- Question: How can we tell which plane of consciousness we are in?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you can meditate deeply, each plane of consciousness will present itself before you. … wish to say that at this stage in your development it is not advisable for you to think of them or meditate...
- Question: Is it possible to have complete knowledge and wisdom of God in one lifetime?
- The seeker knows that his Guru is instructing him during his dreams and during his meditation. … If a seeker has been meditating for quite a few incarnations and God is most pleased with him, and if...
- Question: A neighbour of mine often swears very loudly to the Supreme against Him and when he does that, I always say, "Dios te bendiga."
- Just as God is hearing your prayer and observing your meditation, so also He is listening to this man … God has enough strength to bear his insult just as He has enormous capacity to observe your meditation...
- Question: When I meditate, I start repeating my name a hundred times as you told me to do.
- So once you start counting and you begin to feel that you are meditating only on yourself, saying, “Mangal … If you have already entered into a deep meditation while you are counting, then forget about the number...
- Mr. Jim Knight: I have another question deviating just a little bit from what we have been talking about. Most of us in the Western world who are ignorant of Yoga have a tendency to think of a Yogi as someone, let us say, sitting with his legs crossed, or someone standing on his head, someone doing particular exercises or things that seem strange to us. How or why does a Yogi perform these feats? How does it relate to his religion?
- Concentration, meditation and contemplation are taught in the higher courses. … The Hatha Yoga exercises are done calmly, quietly, in a meditative mood....
- Prana
- So when we meditate, if we can become conscious of our breathing, it will help us to become conscious … When we start to meditate, if the flow of prana is spontaneous, steady and unobstructed, then the inner...
- Mr. Jim Knight: I have another question deviating just a little bit from what we have been talking about. Most of us in the western world who are ignorant of Yoga have a tendency to think of a Yogi as someone, let us say, sitting with his legs crossed, or someone standing on his head, someone doing particular exercises or things that seem strange to us. How or why does a Yogi perform these feats? How does it relate to his religion?
- Concentration, meditation and contemplation are taught in the higher courses. … The Hatha Yogic exercises are done calmly, quietly, in a meditative mood....
- Question: Sometimes I have my most powerful meditations when I am teaching meditation classes.
- If you were not there to offer the class, then perhaps those people would not have come to meditate. … are not my disciples and perhaps will never become disciples, but just because they are praying and meditating...
- Interviewer: So you think that an increased awareness of meditation and interest in meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: That is the only way, I feel. When a nation cares for peace, then another nation joins it and also cares for peace. In this way all the nations eventually will care for peace. At that time there cannot be any war or any ill feeling among nations. Interviewer: Thank you,...
- Question: If you hold a meditation, and the silent part is recorded on a tape, will the power of … the meditation get recorded, and if we listen to the tape, will we have a good meditation with it, even
- Sri Chinmoy: Absolutely, absolutely. My silence is very, very powerful. It is all...