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- How an entire family became the Master's disciples
- A spiritual Master went to meditate with his disciples one evening. … He said, "Let me go alone to the nearby park and meditate." … So the Master went to the park and sat on a bench where he entered into a deep meditation. … I was in such high meditation. Why did I ruin my meditation by speaking to this lady?"
The Master entered into his room and started meditating very seriously....
- Introduction by the editor
- We are called to transcend our egos; "meditation is self-transcendence." … dedication an act of meditation.
He who meditates, consciously dedicates his life to God. … He who dedicates his life to mankind, soulfully meditates on the real God.
Thus in Sri Chinmoy's terms, meditation is action, a form of peace-making....
- Question: Guru, are you bothered by noise and other disturbances when you meditate?
- So I come down to the level of my disciples and teach them how to meditate....
- Question: Sometimes I am fearful when I feel my heart palpitating during meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: Fear is very bad. This palpitation is very good when it is the result of your inner joy or thrill. If the heart starts palpitating, sometimes it means oneness. But if you become afraid of this experience, then the vital or the mind makes you feel that an unknown guest is entering into your heart. So there should be...
- Question: I seek strength when I meditate; am I seeking the wrong thing?
- Sri Chinmoy: You are doing the correct thing when you seek strength and get it. The Upanishadic seers used to chant this prayer thousands of times: “Give me strength. Give me valour. Give me virility. Give me patience.” As light is strength, strength is also light. This we can see with our own eyes. We feel that light is one...
- Question: Is there anything I can do to always have a good meditation?
- So, when you are not getting a good meditation, the best thing is to think of what you were and what...
- Question: What kind of prayer or meditation should we offer before eating food?
- Sri Chinmoy: Only invoke the Supreme and repeat His Name. You are eating food not to become the strongest man on earth. You are eating so that you can maintain your health. You are eating in order to become a good instrument, a perfect instrument of the Supreme. After you have eaten, you have energised your being. You have to...
- Caller: I'd like to know how much discipline is required to master meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: All the discipline that one can muster in one's own life. Discipline is a continuous process. In this process we make progress. It depends on how sincerely the individual has accepted the spiritual life. If he wants to become perfect, then he has to discipline not only his body, vital and mind but also his entire...
- Question: What is the significance of seeing an intense blue light during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: To see blue light is a very good, very high experience. Blue light is the light of pure spirituality and also the light of the Infinite. If you see blue light around someone or around yourself, it means that your inner being is responding to the vast infinity or that your own spirituality is now maturing and you...
- Question: What is the significance of seeing a very blue light during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: A blue light is the light of Infinity. To see blue light around yourself or someone else means that your inner being is responding to the vast Infinity, that your spirituality is mature and has entered into your inner and outer existence. This is a very good experience, a very high experience. White light is...
- Question: What is the best way to begin to study Yoga and meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: The best way is to read spiritual books and to mix only with spiritual people. Then you can take help from a spiritual Master. If you have a spiritual Master, he will tell you what to do. But if you do not have one, then it is better to start with...
- Question: What is the best technique for a beginner to use in meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: A beginner should feel that he has a few friends and a few enemies. Unless and until you have become one with God’s Consciousness, you must feel that you have some undivine forces in you which do not want to allow you to make progress. When you stand at your heart’s door, you are bound to hear some people knocking...
- During my opening meditation I am praying for the oneness of all religions.
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- Question: These, concentration, meditation and contemplation, are they a means towards obtaining
- Sri Chinmoy: It is my way of entering into Infinite Peace, Infinite Bliss, Infinite Harmony and Infinite Light...
- Question: By means of this meditation you try to obtain Peace, only Peace?
- Sri Chinmoy: Not only peace. In peace there is Light, there is Joy,...
- A seeker's gratitude
Every evening the Master used to allow his disciples to come and meditate with him.
In those days, the Master used to allow anybody to come and meditate at his home. … But my disciples are now meditating most devotedly and soulfully. … If you want to meditate here, either stay in the kitchen or come back into the meditation hall and meditate
The Master went back to the meditation room and meditated with his disciples....
- Question: How may a disciple consciously identify with you as often as possible?
- If you feel the Supreme comes first, you don't have to think of me, you don't have to meditate on me. … We can be ready only by thinking about, meditating on and dedicating ourselves to the cause of the Supreme...
- Question: Very frequently when I start my meditation, I feel a vibration as if I were a motor.
- Sri Chinmoy: When you are meditating you have to feel that energy is coming from your heart centre right … But if you remain in the soul during your meditation as long as your soul wants, then the mind will be...
- Inspiration from fellow-seekers
- When you go home you will meditate for at least five minutes, or while walking along the street you will … meditate....
- The snake bite
- So he left the doctor and his son in one room and entered into his meditation room.
The father said to his son, “When I was meditating on our Master, I saw four messengers of death,...
- Question: Do we receive anything from you if we fall asleep during meditation, besides a scolding
- Occasionally, you come to meditation agitated or angry with some disciples or with me. … So when you are angry with me, it is better to fall asleep during meditation, instead of throwing your...
- 97. Question: How can I repay Guru for his eternal gifts?
- I try my best to take you up in my fastest elevator when I meditate. … gift any disciple can give to the Guru is to realise him, to realise his height at least once during a meditation...
- Question: The hardest thing for me is to choose between two situations that appear equal. What is a good way, if two situations or two choices seem equally good, for me to decide between them? [^2]
- For a week or so, before you go to sleep, you will meditate. Meditate!...
- Question: How can you tell the difference between true intuition and imagination?
- you soulfully follow a spiritual path for a few months and if your prayer, your concentration, your meditation … When you meditate early in the morning, your inner being will tell you what is going to happen, what...
- A seeker's peace[^114]
- A seeker gets peace from his concentration, meditation and contemplation. … His meditation-peace is soulful. It is like the morning or the evening sky....
- Question: Why have your ideas attracted so many people here and also in so many different parts of the world?
I have prayed and meditated, and I know the subject a little better than my students. … When we pray and meditate, we try to become one with God’s Will....
- Kovanda: I would like to ask you how I should meditate, concerning the baby.
- This will be more effective and more fruitful than if you meditate. … When he is six or seven years old, at that time you can start to concentrate and meditate on him....
- 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: Is hell really a place in the vital worlds, or is it just a state of consciousness?
- The moment we think something good, the moment we pray and meditate and try to offer the inner light … that we have gained from our meditation and prayers, we begin to live in Heaven....
- Question: After the Master has inspired the seeker, and the seeker has chosen this path, how does the person know what his function is?
- He may give you a specific meditation, or an inner meditation, inspiring you silently and inwardly, telling...