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Question: Sometimes when I am very happy because I have had a very good meditation, the next day
are always alert and they are alarmed to see that you have made enormous progress through your good meditation … I meditated and I was happy. That is why he gave me the capacity to have that experience." … If you think that the person who sat beside you had a better meditation than you, that feeling is very...
From the book Problems! Problems! Are they really problems? part 1
His Compassion is everything to us[^33]
This time I meditated only on compassion, bringing down compassion. … When we meditate, the soul of somebody who is not physically present can come and receive. … After the last of three meditation sessions held on 29 May 1978 at Progress-Promise, Jamaica, New York...
From the book His Compassion is everything to us
Conversation — part II
Sometimes I use orange, sometimes blue, sometimes green when I hold meditations at our Centres and at … When we hold meditations there, we pray like this: [Sri Chinmoy folds his hands.] … And when we meditate, Allah speaks to us and we try to listen to Him; we try to execute His Will....
From the book Muhammad Ali and Sri Chinmoy
Question: When you meditate and inwardly cry for something, should you also make an effort to achieve
Why are you getting up early to pray and meditate, whereas your friends are still wallowing in the pleasures … In the beginning we give fifty percent of the credit to ourselves, because we get up to pray and meditate … , and fifty percent to God, because He responds to our prayers and inspires us during our meditation....
From the book What I need from God
Determination and will
Divine determination automatically comes if we meditate on the heart, on the heart’s light. … If we meditate somewhere else rather than on the heart, our determination may fluctuate. … If we get divine light from our soul during our meditation and if we sincerely pray to the soul to wake...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Sometimes when I am very happy because I have had a very good meditation, the next day
are always alert and they are alarmed to see that you have made enormous progress through your good meditation … I meditated and I was happy. That is why he gave me the capacity to have that experience.” … If you think that the person who sat beside you had a better meditation than you, that feeling is very...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-1, No.11, 27 November 1974
Question: Guru, I sometimes find myself preoccupied with the frustrations of my past and my insecurities about the future. How can I conquer my attachment to time? [^3]
With constant prayer and constant meditation we can arrive at that golden road. … While you are meditating, you may at times vegetate. … In many cases, your devoted service is infinitely more effective than meditation. … But if you try to meditate and then you fall asleep, is there any danger? … Again, while praying and meditating, you can say, "I am offering the results of my meditation to humanity...
From the book Beyond likes and dislikes: illumining questions and answers
The thief[^7]

All forty of the Master's disciples came to meditate. … For about two hours all the disciples meditated well, with their eyes open. … Everybody was very surprised to see so much money for that kind of meditation.

The following day all of the Master's disciples came to his house to meditate. … They meditated for about an hour, and everybody had a good meditation....

From the book One lives, one dies
God and Goal[^26]
When we pray and meditate, we feel that God is listening to our prayer. Where is He? … He prays and meditates, but feels that this is not enough.

The right method is prayer and meditation. … When we pray and meditate, God observes whether our prayer and meditation is sincere or not. … When we pray sincerely, when we meditate sincerely, we realise God slowly and steadily....

From the book The Tears of Nation-Hearts
1. The Master and the disciple
When the Master meditates in front of his disciples, he brings down Peace, Light and Bliss from Above … Then automatically they learn how to meditate from within. … All real spiritual Masters teach meditation in silence. … A genuine Master does not have to explain outwardly how to meditate or give you a specific form of meditation … He can simply meditate on you and his silent gaze will teach you how to meditate....
From the book The Master and the disciple
Question: If meditation gives you such a marvellous feeling, why don't you stay in your highest meditation
Very often I show that consciousness to my disciples and students during our meditations....
From the book The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi
106. Sri Chinmoy's Interview With New Television –- Ntv, 22 May 2007

Sri Chinmoy: I pray and meditate. I started praying at the age of four or five. … And at the age of nine or ten, I started meditating. … When you pray and meditate, you can enter into the inner world. … So if we pray and meditate, we can develop those capacities. … I was able to meditate with the President; two times he blessed me....

From the book World-Oneness-Heart-Song in Mongolian Life
Question: Should I feel that my spiritual Master is the highest?
excited, you are thrilled, but you are not getting even an iota of inspiration or aspiration to pray and meditate … , to increase the power of your prayer-life and meditation-life. … She did not pray or meditate, but the professor was a genuine seeker and he recognised her as his Guru … Then she started praying and meditating and she went very, very high.

When you pray and meditate, if you pray to the Supreme, I will be the happiest person, believe me,...

From the book My heart-door I have kept wide open
Question: Why does God want messengers to guide us?

Then, you know that I got it by prayer, by meditation, by concentration. … So you will also start praying, concentrating and meditating. … The result of my meditation is my realisation, so you will correctly feel that if you meditate like me … In the same way, while you are meditating, if you are not doing well, I can tell you, "No, you are not...

From the book I am telling you a great secret: you are a fantastic Dream of God
God's Hour

The young boy had never prayed or meditated. He came to the hermit only to be worshipped. … He started praying and meditating very sincerely, and in this way he went on for two or three years. … They are disturbing my meditation and my peace. I have to realise God.

The boy started praying and meditating very sincerely. … If you have a cow, you can stay here and pray and meditate.”...

From the book Life’s bleeding tears and flying smiles, part 2
Service[^13]

The seeker realises God on the strength of his concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Concentration, meditation and contemplation live in the world of aspiration. … When a seeker meditates, God the Liberator descends into his life of aspiration and grants him the capacity

A seeker can also use his power of concentration, meditation and contemplation to serve God. … When he meditates, he serves the world of inner reality in infinite measure....

From the book My Maple Tree
Service[^24]

The seeker realises God on the strength of his concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Concentration, meditation and contemplation live in the world of aspiration. … When a seeker meditates, God the Liberator descends into his life of aspiration and grants him the capacity

A seeker can also use his power of concentration, meditation and contemplation to serve God. … When he meditates, he serves the world of inner reality in infinite measure....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
Question: Why have you chosen weightlifting to transcend in?
Through my weightlifting I am trying to show the world how prayer and meditation can give us inner strength

If we pray and meditate, we get inner strength and inner confidence. … Question: Is there anything special that you meditate on or think of when you are about to attempt incredible … And even people who are not in the weightlifting world will be inspired to pray and meditate so that … I will be running inside them with my prayer and meditation, my joy and my pride....

From the book The inner meaning of sport
Question: Did you have any inner experiences with the cosmic gods and goddesses when you lifted 1,300 pounds and 1,500 pounds with one arm?

Again, sometimes it can happen that when you have come down from your highest meditation, you have … many times it has happened during your life, you have reached a very high consciousness during your meditation … All the intensity that you had accumulated from the meditation for half an hour or an hour is ruined. … That is the only way to save yourself and preserve all your highest meditation that you had, your good … So often it happens that people lose their highest meditation....

From the book The inner meaning of sport
The perfect vision of the old Master
One day he entered into a very deep meditation. … Many of his disciples were also peacefully meditating. … He was not at all involved in their fighting, as he was totally absorbed in his sublime meditation. … I was meditating very deeply, and I did not pay any attention to what they were doing." … I had hoped that the silence and tranquillity of my meditation would enter into both of them....
From the book The Master and the circus clown
World Gratitude Day[^12]
The Peace Meditation Group at the United Nations celebrated World Gratitude Day twice in 1977 — once … are the texts from both programmes, which included music and the performance by the United Nations Meditation … World Gratitude Day: Welcome, Sri Chinmoy, Mr Muller, Mrs de Sola Pool, Kevin Keefe, the United Nations Meditation

[Sri Chinmoy meditates facing the audience.] … under the sun;

THEREFORE let us proclaim World Gratitude Day, a holiday for all peoples, a day of meditation...

From the book The seeker's mind
Spirituality[^3]
At every moment our thoughts are judged, our prayer is judged, our meditation is judged, our surrender … If we have a sublime meditation, then we come closer to God. … Action is based upon meditation. Meditation eventually reveals God and manifests Him on earth. … We pray to God and meditate on God — not because we have done many things wrong in this life, not because...
From the book My Rose Petals, part 4
Move on, move on![^4]

“Do you find it very difficult to get up in the morning and meditate?” … The boss in the inner world is your Inner Pilot and the job He gives you is to pray and meditate. … Inner Pilot sees that you are not getting up early in the morning to do His Job, that is, to pray and meditate … If, when you first entered the spiritual life, you were able to get up early in the morning to meditate … Sincerity will create in you an inner urge to get up early in the morning and pray and meditate....

From the book The ambition-deer
Not Krishna, but you, Master
There was once a great Yogi who used to meditate 12 to 14 hours a day. … In spite of the fact that he had achieved God-realisation he used to meditate for hours and hours. … He said, “Even if you can’t pray and meditate regularly, do it whenever you have difficulty. … At least at that time you can pray and meditate. … And when you are in danger or difficulty if you do not think of Him, pray to Him, meditate on Him, then...
From the book AUM — Vol. 8, No.10, May 1973
Spiritual Masters
Now you know that God exists, but if you come to my spiritual Centre to meditate with me, then I will … Even now, if I meditate in front of you, I will be able to bring down these divine qualities....
From the book Four Summit-Height-Melodies meet with Sri Chinmoy
Question: You always speak of the heart. Isn't mental education also important in the spiritual life?
In order to swim across the sea of ignorance, one needs only one thing, and that is meditation. … If one can meditate well, one will eventually cross the sea....
From the book God-Journey's Perfection-Return
Question: When I look at the moon, I get a special experience and I believe it is coming through you. I just wanted to ask you, what is your connection to the moon, specially the full moon?

I was only looking at the moon and meditating, but there are always these kinds of beings. … In Lord Buddha's case those same undivine forces tried to disturb his meditation and take away his inner...

From the book My heart-door I have kept wide open
Question: How can I purify my mind so that I can have a good meditation?
The moment you say, “I am the soul,” and you meditate on this truth, at that time your soul’s infinite … In this way you will purify your mind and your heart and you will have a wonderful meditation every day...
From the book Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
Question: While striving for detachment, how can we safeguard against indifference?
I shall help you with my inner capacity, which is my prayer, meditation and concentration. … Instead let me offer to you my prayer, meditation and concentration, and these things you have to offer...
From the book Life-enquiry and self-discovery
Question: How can we overcome the fear of death?
There are millions of individuals on earth who are not praying and meditating, and who have no aspiration … But a day will come when, on the strength of your aspiration, prayer and meditation, you will think of...
From the book Sound and silence, part 2
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Books found: 17

Meditation
The meditation-world
Concentration, meditation, contemplation
Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
The hour of meditation
My meditation-heart
Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
The mind and the heart in meditation
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow's Noon
Fifty-Four Morning Prayer-Cries and Morning Meditation-Smiles
My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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