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- The Master's divine wish
"What else is meditation," said the Master, "if not this kind of service? … You people may think that you meditate only once a day in the morning or during meetings with me. … But no, every second your life can be meditation if you serve me devotedly. … Believe me, that is absolutely the highest form of meditation....
- Abhaya: Christian Science practitioners try to make the sick person conscious that no sickness exists, that sickness is not true. I don't know how they do it, but I have seen people being cured by this method. I would like to know how they do it.
- A real spiritual person who has been meditating for many years and knows what will-power is.
A real aspirant who has been meditating for many years knows that he is not the body, so when he says … If he has been in the spiritual life for many years, and he knows what deeper meditation is, and if he … One has to be very experienced in meditation and one has to have considerable spiritual growth to do...
- Regaining past achievements
- While we are meditating, perhaps for two minutes we are sincere, and the rest of the time we are daydreaming … For those who are following our path, meditation in the heart centre has taken place many, many times … So if you use your imagination-power and remember how you used to meditate one or two years ago, immediately … In this way you are bound to get back in your day-to-day life the capacity to concentrate, to meditate...
- Surrender and the chakras
- It is best to concentrate on God, meditate on God and pray to God for self-realisation. … If he wants only God, then he has to accept the path of aspiration, concentration, meditation and contemplation … When he entered into his meditation, a very high meditation, he saw a dirty, unimaginably filthy woman...
- Twenty questions and answers
What does God do when I meditate on Him?
When I meditate on God, He triumphantly sings.
And what do I do when God meditates on me?
When God meditates on me, I fear Him and hide from Him....
- Concentration — University lecture[^14]
- 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....
- Question: Is the third eye the best place to focus one's attention during meditation, or can this
In your case, instead of opening the third eye, you should meditate on the heart and try to feel God's
So if you are meditating on the ajna chakra or third eye, you should also practise concentrating on … When you have achieved joy and love and have become well-established in your meditation, then you may … Women, without exception, should try to meditate on the heart centre, the anahata chakra. … While meditating, concentrate on the heart centre first, and then on the ajna....
- Introduction
- Let us concentrate, meditate and contemplate....
- Question: Guru, sometimes we are staying in a room with one or two other people, as we do on the Christmas Trip. If they are still sleeping and we need to leave soon, can we sing "The Invocation" by ourselves while they are asleep?
- If you are lucky, you and your roommates can get up at 6:00 or at another fixed time to meditate and...
- Mike Spino: If higher states of consciousness are possible when running, will this always result in superlative performances? Can there be a poor performance and a gain in the life quest? If so, how can this be recognised?[^9]
- , including Beyond Jogging and The Zen of Running, and has offered new techniques of concentration, meditation...
- 8.
- that he could be of greater service to his country and to the world at large through his prayer and meditation...
- Question: How can I best serve you?
- Sri Chinmoy: You can serve me best if you can all the time think of me, pray to me and meditate on me...
- Editor's introduction to the first edition
- Before speaking, Sri Chinmoy would enter into a high meditative state and then speak extemporaneously...
- The missing notebook[^13]
- After some time I put my notebook on the seat next to me and began meditating....
- My driving experiences
- Sevananda says that I was driving with my eyes closed, in deep meditation....
- Question: How can one become more dynamic? The more there is to do, the slower I go. How can I overcome this?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you find it difficult to bring down dynamic energy from above through meditation, no...
- Question: How do we begin to develop sincerity?
- But he knows that there is a higher Power that brought him to this place for meditation....
- Question: How important is patience in the spiritual life?
- passed and the Mother had not come to him, he felt that the following day he would have to pray and meditate...
- Awareness and wisdom-light
- woke up in the middle of the night and was so surprised to see that her husband was not at his usual meditation...
- Question: What will it be like when divinity is more manifested?
- I can meditate all the time for myself, but I don't do that....
- Caller: Does Sri Chinmoy feel that meditation has really done anything for the musicians he has
- Donna Halper: Has meditating with you and studying with you changed the lives of the musicians that you...
- Question: Could you please explain why you give your followers spiritual names?
- When the disciples have spiritual names and they meditate on their names, at that time their divine qualities...
- Tales of the kitchen
- Her cooking was sitting in the temple for hours and hours meditating and praying....
- Question: There seems to be a movement in which countries are starting to work with parapsychology and the discipline of mind control. Is this a step towards the heart or away from the heart?[^140]
- In order to establish supreme oneness with the highest Reality, one has to aspire, one has to meditate...
- Question: How does religious discipline differ from spiritual discipline?
- spiritual discipline will tell us to try to remain conscious of God twenty-four hours a day and to pray and meditate...
- My Adventures In The Snow
- When I walk alone, I have very, very good meditation. I enter into the other world, my real world....
- What is the difference between the voice of Silence and the voice of Yoga? Or isn't there any difference?
- During your meditation, for example, you can go deep within and you will hear the voice of Silence....
- Bharater rabi[^1]
- Bharater rabi jagater kabiBanger hiya chand
Sundar tumi bhitare bahireSundar tumi srishti gabhire
Bishwa sabhai tomar asanPrema onkar nad Translation by Sri Chinmoy
O Sun of India’s sky,O World-Poet,
O Moon of Bengal’s heart,You were beautiful in your inner life,
You were beautiful in your outer life,You were beauty incarnate in God’s entire Creation.
Gloriously and triumphantly you secure your placeIn the world-assembly with your creative force,
Supremely meaningful and fruitful in various walks of life. (1): 1. This song was composed by Sri Chinmoy on May 7th, 1979 and performed by him the same day at the United Nations in New York during a programme celebrating the anniversary of the poet’s birth. The programme was called “A Tribute to Tagore” and was sponsored by Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations.
The song appears in Sri Chinmoy, Blue Waves of the Ocean Source, New York: Agni Press, 1979, p.37. The translation is by Sri Chinmoy.]
- Question: How can one bring the soul's consciousness into the professional world?
- If this person prays and meditates regularly, then he will also get the result of his inner study....
- Question: An anthropologist studies his brother human beings, but does he know anything about the soul?
- Similarly, if he prays and meditates, he will also get the result of his inner study....