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- 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: When we have feelings of 'my' and 'mine,' how can we make that 'I' feel as small as an ant?
- But in their case they prayed and meditated: that is why they are one with the Highest. … In your case also, you have to pray and meditate and become one with the Highest....
- Question: How can we transform surrender from a theoretical notion into a practical one?
- Before we pray and meditate, if we offer our soulful gratitude to the Almighty Father, the Inner Pilot … We are grateful to Him because out of millions of people He has chosen us to pray to Him, to meditate...
- Question: Sometimes in my meditations, I come to think about the feeling of Eternity, you know.
- When, in your meditation, you feel that you are lonely, alone, it is not actually the loneliness of the
Now, what is actually happening in your meditation is that at times your aspiration, before it reaches...
- Question II: How can one move ultimately toward success, believing that "As thy feet bend, so bends the path?" Is that really possible?
- I know that in your meditation, there are times when you go very deep, and your inner voice tells you … You can rest assured that when you get this vision in your deep meditation, it is correct and it will...
- Question: Sometimes in my meditations, I come to think about the feeling of Eternity, you know.
- Sri Chinmoy: When, in your meditation, you feel that you are lonely, alone, it is not actually the loneliness
Now, what is actually happening in your meditation is that at times your aspiration, before it reaches...
- 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...
- C.K.G.
- an abundance of colour, abundance of images, abundance of things that go through your mind when you meditate … The paintings are physical manifestations of his inner meditations, a reflection within the optical spectrum … Clearly painting, for him, is an act of meditation. The process is completely intuitive. … He prepares himself by meditating, then draws on a deep inner wellspring, that 'fountain' of creative
Sri Chinmoy, CKG, on the strength of his meditation, has penetrated to that "secret place,” the reality...
- Act I, Scene 1
- Matsyendranath is seated in very high meditation, surrounded by five of his disciples.) … Let us meditate with him.
(All meditate for a while.) … We were all meditating with you in deep silence. … ’t you consider the arrival of this brother of yours as the result of your many years of prayer and meditation … Your meditation for divine victory has borne fruit....
- Question: Are outer gestures important for aspiration to increase?
- You have put candles, incense and flowers in the meditation room to increase your aspiration. … It should be with this kind of feeling that you fold your hands to meditate facing the disciples.
Tonight I selected some disciples who had good meditations. … Do you think that I selected all those who had folded their hands during meditation? Far from it.
If you fold your hands soulfully, it will help you meditate better, but you don't have to do it at...
- Aspiration and spirituality[^15]
- Again, if we sincerely pray and meditate, we will feel that all the three paths go together. … When we meditate, we actually offer our purity, our divinity, our reality to the Supreme in mankind; … The real yoga is the yoga of concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Then we go on to meditation. When we meditate, we consciously invoke the Infinite. … When we practise concentration, meditation and contemplation, slowly, steadily and unerringly we bring...
- Donna Halper: So if a person becomes involved in meditation, the more he meditates and the more he
- Sri Chinmoy: He will get more understanding, more illumination. He will be able to accept the world rather than negate the world, for the world is God's creation, and Creator and creation always go together. If we accept them together, then we will be able to fulfil the Supreme Reality...
- Question: How can those of us who are left behind feel that it is God's Compassion that is giving us life while you, who are the best at it, are happy to be leaving?
- Therefore, during this trip I have meditated in my own way. … I say that I have realised God, yet even now I meditate much more than you people. … Lord Krishna said that he did not have to pray and meditate, but for the sake of humanity he did it. … In my case, I have spent hours in my room and in the car meditating. … But here in our meeting room when we meditated, I did not get joy at those times when I saw that the...
- Meeting with Maestro Yehudi Menuhin[^1]
- I love the long, long notes and the meditative quality from one note to another. … Each meeting we started with a meditation.
Mr.
Sri Chinmoy: But when he was with us, he was always fond of meditating.
Mr. … are interested in praying and meditating come and join me. … I spent twenty years there practising yoga and meditation.
Mr....
- Spirituality
- The seeker prays, he meditates, he aspires; aspiration is his prayer, aspiration is his meditation. … When he aspires in and through his meditation, he brings down the high, higher, highest Reality for manifestation … Prayer, soulful prayer, reaches the highest Height; and fruitful meditation brings the highest Height...
- Question: I once felt during meditation that my soul came out of the body.
- Sri Chinmoy: It is a very high experience. In some cases, the soul can come out of the body. In some cases, the soul comes to the fore to such an extent that the physical consciousness either totally leaves or becomes transformed, pushed aside, or totally illumined by the...
- Question: What should we imagine if we are very tired during our morning meditation?
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- Question: Why do you sometimes ask that I look at you when I meditate?
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- Question: Could you give us a meditation or concentration technique to develop discrimination-power
- Sri Chinmoy: If you can just shed tears — and I do not mean crocodile tears — you will develop discrimination-power. Try to feel that you are absolutely helpless, like a babe in the woods. You have to bring forward humility and feel that you are nothing and can be nothing without God’s Protection, God’s Compassion. You have to...
- Question: Is it better to go deep within or to go high during meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Both are effective. If you are going deep within, that is a good experience; and if you feel that something is going high, higher, highest and expanding at the same time, then I wish to say that this experience is also sublime. You do not have to give all importance to one and pay no attention to the other. Let...
- Student: First we have to have a high meditation, then we can experience falling!
- Sri Chinmoy: You have to go higher! When we have an obstacle — on the physical, vital, mental, psychic or spiritual plane — we can either approach the obstacle as an enemy, which everybody does, an obstacle race, a hindrance, or we can say: "Here is an opportunity to strengthen my capacity. This is an obstacle; I will overcome...
- Question: I would like to ask you how you experience God when you meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: There is no set rule. When I experience God, it can be His personal aspect or it can be His impersonal aspect. Sometimes I see Him, feel Him and divinely enjoy Him as infinite Bliss. Sometimes I see Him and talk to Him the way I talk to an individual; but He appears to me with His divine attributes. He is...
- Question: Do you lift these heavy weights with the help of prayer and meditation?
- I give 100 per cent credit to my prayer-life and meditation-life....
- Question: When people are sleeping during a very high meditation, do they receive anything?
- Sri Chinmoy: Absolutely not. But if you just keep your eyes open and look at me, then naturally you are not sleeping. When you see something, you get inspiration. From inspiration you go to aspiration and from aspiration you go to realisation. Only when your eyes are closed are you...
- Question: Is humility actually very important in the spiritual life?
- But those who come to meditate with arrogance and who feel that they know everything, would be better...
- High time to wake up
- woke up in the middle of the night and was so surprised to see that her husband was not at his usual meditation...
- Question: Although we get along well, at times my husband's lack of aspiration is sheer torture to me, and I feel that if I want to make inner progress perhaps I should leave him.
- In the spiritual life you should meditate, but you should not expect anything....
- Question: When I meditate, I see within and without that everything is alive and has millions of
- Sri Chinmoy: This is a very high kind of meditation because inside everything is God....
- Question: Even though I have accepted the spiritual life, I still have doubts. Why is this, Guru?
- It is through constant prayer and meditation....
- Ramana's conversation with God
“Every day pray and meditate; I shall soon let you know what My Path is.”...