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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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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.”...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...