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- The Song
- Chinmoy: We live in Jamaica, Queens, and meet together at least two or three times a week to pray and meditate
Mr Menuhin: Do you also give lectures, or is it just prayer, meditation and singing? … I have been praying and meditating since my childhood. Mr Menuhin: Yes, I can believe that....
- Question: In psychology there's a symptom called manic depression where first of all the person is very lively and gay and then he becomes depressed. Sometimes I've noticed this in disciples because it seems to be part of the human psyche. What can we do to break the cycle?
We have to know what we have in the kitchen and what we have in the meditation room. … In the meditation room there are incense, candles and flowers. … Knowing what the meditation room can offer, why do we have to go into the kitchen and get all this confusion...
- Question: What causes suffering?
- This experience of Delight we develop when we meditate and pray. … Most of us do not pray or meditate sincerely or soulfully; therefore, the existence of Delight is a far … But if we soulfully meditate and unconditionally surrender our day-to-day existence to the Almighty,...
- The master walks the earth
- If you do not have respect for your own meditation-life, then how shall I have respect for you? … When it is the time for prayer and meditation, why do you have to indulge in talking? … But in the spiritual life, when you do not pray and meditate, when you do not do the needful on a regular...
- One spiritual Master saves another
- One day he was meditating most powerfully in a forest. … When Lalit saw Balakrishna, he said, “Do you remember the incident when you were meditating in a forest … “All I am asking you to do, then, is to pray and meditate more sincerely.”...
- Ramdas and the buffalo[^20]
- I have been praying and meditating for years and years, but still God-realisation is a far cry. … Keep your house clean, prepare nice, delicious food for God and pray and meditate the whole day most … He remained soulful the whole day and prayed and meditated....
- Ekalavya worships Drona[^12]
One day Ekalavya was meditating in the forest. … A dog started barking and it was disturbing his meditation. … Overcome by curiosity, he followed the dog, which took him directly to Ekalavya, who was in a meditative...
- Question: How do you learn to concentrate?
- Sri Chinmoy: One cannot meditate well unless one knows how to concentrate. … At first the seeker should not meditate but only try to concentrate. … Then after two weeks, a month, or if necessary two months, he can start meditation....
- Mr. Inoue: Lastly, Sri Chinmoy, what do you feel is the most natural or best way to live? I used to work in the agricultural field, but now I am having to co-ordinate projects in the office. I feel sad since I think that perhaps the pure life is to be out in the field working agriculturally.
- When I was young, I used to pray and meditate for hours and hours and hours. … Now I have got thousands of students all over the world and I do not have time to pray and meditate for … Your previous job was good, but it was mostly for yourself — just like my life when I used to pray and meditate...
- Question: Guru, did you have many high experiences before God-realisation?
- Before that, I was not thinking of Krishna at all; I was meditating on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
Another time, while I was meditating inside the Ashram meditation hall, my inner being was going up...
- Question: What is behind your interest in Russia? How do you think you can help us? How do you see the future of Russia?
- Starting five or six years ago, while praying and meditating, I began to feel in the depths of my heart … Since then, I have been praying and meditating for the Soviet Union. … But when I pray and meditate, I still feel the Soviet Union visible and palpable in the world of aspiration...
- Question: What does it take to become a perfect disciple?
- But until you get that message, you have to pray and meditate most sincerely.
Again, it may happen that while you are praying and meditating most sincerely, most devotedly, God
So you continue to pray and meditate....
- Question: Guru, I used to be very active in my work and I liked it very much. But now I feel that it is taking away from my duties as an aspirant.
- There is a time to eat, there is a time to sleep, there is a time to meditate and there is a time to … While meditating we can serve by offering good will. … While working and while doing selfless service, if our consciousness remains in God, then we are also meditating...
- Question: What is the relationship between service and love-offerings to the Centre?
- When you give something it is a form of meditation. … There is no difference between selfless dedication and real meditation. … Self-dedication is a form of meditation....
- Eternal Life
- Why do we meditate? Why do we aspire? … By virtue of our prayer and meditation. … It is the transcendence of the animal-human life that we are aiming at through our prayers and meditations...
- Question: Sometimes while I'm meditating I get this feeling that I am not existing.
- You have to take the experience you are having in meditation as real transcendence of your limitation … Through our conscious prayer and meditation, we try to become one with the divine Will. … My fee is aspiration and regularity in your meditation. My fee is inner cry....
- He has shown what receptivity is
- He sat about two feet away from me and I started meditating. … While I was meditating on him, I saw the little boy, very nice and very cute, intensely looking at me … While I was continuing to meditate with him, he grew up and became mature....
- Question: How does one get benefit from books on meditation in case one does not have access to a
- Sri Chinmoy: If one does not have a personal teacher, how does one get benefit from books on meditation … To be very frank with you, I have seen many sincere seekers at the universities who have meditated for … But in the bookstores I see hundreds and thousands of books written by people who have not meditated...
- Question: Does one have to have a spiritual teacher in order to follow the spiritual life?
- In the spiritual life, one has to learn how to meditate, how to concentrate. … In the spiritual life, if one learns how to meditate and gets inner knowledge, inner illumination, then … Again, if you are on the wrong path, doing something wrong in your meditation or concentration, he will...
- Article in magazine People weekly[^3]
- A ceremony of meditative silence, song and prayer draws to a close. … Sri Chinmoy has reached a state of meditative bliss called “samadhi” in his native Bengali. … As head of the meditation program at the United Nations, the slight, bald-headed guru has attracted diplomats...
- Songs
- Through meditation you can do everything — even remember 30 minutes of variations and notes!
Sri Chinmoy: I teach the life of prayer and meditation. … When we pray and meditate, there is no such thing as impossibility. … But these people pray with me and meditate with me; they are part and parcel of my aspiration-life....
- Question: Many disciples become self-conscious and nervous when called up to meditate in front of
- When you go to sit down, another person will come up to meditate, and he too will have told a lie or … Then, when you come up in front of me to meditate, I shall receive only devoted qualities. … If he asks me to meditate in front of eighty or a hundred people, then he has definitely given me the … So the moment I ask you to come up and meditate, simply try to identify yourself with me....
- Question: Lately I've been conscious of a number of obstructions in my outer life.
- The other day at the United Nations I gave this meditation: "In the outer life, he who cries is a lost … But consciously if you pray or meditate to bring the inner sun, your own illumined sun, to the fore, … When you pray to the Supreme and meditate on the Supreme, always pray that the illumined part inside … But if you don't pray and meditate, then all obscure, undivine, impure forces will always come and bother...
- Jealousy and responsibility
- In order to avoid being a victim to others’ negative thoughts and jealousy, we have to consciously meditate … But if we do not consciously meditate, if we do not aspire, then even if we are innocent, protection … We have to meditate, for our meditation is our protection....
- Concentration
- The present questions his motives for meditating on the present.
Concentration has two brothers: meditation and contemplation. … Meditation makes our mind calm and quiet and empties our heart so that the Inner Pilot can have free … Meditation is the second rung on the ladder of highest realisation....
- Russell Wilson: I am honoured, Sir. I can feel you so strongly that it is hard to talk. But it is a very pleasant and beautiful feeling. I am seeking inner peace, and I felt a very strong connection with you. If you would be accepting of me, I would like to learn from you.
Suppose one day early in the morning you have a very deep, sublime meditation. … “How could I have such a good meditation? It cannot be true.
My request to you is that when you pray and meditate, keep the door to your mind completely shut and
When you are not engaged in your daily activities, when you are praying and meditating, please try...
- Question: How can we have a peaceful world?
- I go to the United Nations to pray and meditate twice a week. … The delegates, diplomats and staff — all those who want to pray and meditate — come and join me. … So I feel that all the nations are coming together to pray and meditate. … And it is from our prayers and meditations that we develop oneness....
- Serving others
So every morning before we enter into the world arena, we energise ourselves through prayer and meditation … Before we leave our house and go outside, we pray and meditate to strengthen our inner existence so that
If you want to help the outer world, early in the morning during your meditation you can offer goodwill
From your aspiration, from your prayer, from your meditation, you create a world of your own....
- Conversation — part IV
Kanti: We have our meditations on Wednesdays and Sundays and we are open to anybody who is interested … We let people know that we are there, that we are meditating, and they come and join us if they are interested … Chinmoy: I shall be deeply honoured if both of you will come once to the United Nations when I hold meditations … We would be very honoured to be at your meditation....
- Concentration[^1]
- The present questions his motives for meditating on the present.
Concentration has two brothers: meditation and contemplation. … Meditation makes our mind calm and quiet and empties our heart so that the Inner Pilot can have free … Meditation is the second rung on the ladder of highest realisation....