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Question: You said once that when your eyes move back and forth during meditation you are entering
What we should do during our prayer and meditation is make a conscious attempt to enter into His Will … We should pray and meditate only to realise Him....
From the book Transformation-Night, Immortality-Dawn
Timur and the mendicant
When Timur was in India, one day he saw a religious mendicant praying and meditating most soulfully at … When I meditate here, sometimes flies bother me. Can you stop them from bothering me?”...
From the book Illumination-experiences on Indian soil, part 4
17. Question: Is suffering necessary for self-purification?
She felt that if she were happy, there would be no necessity on her part to think of him or meditate … But they actually pray and meditate only when they are caught and compelled to swim in the sea of suffering...
From the book A God-Lover's Earth-Heaven-Life, part 1
Brahma tries to illumine Vishwamitra and Vashishtha
The sage Vashishtha meditated under water for twelve years.

Brahma meditated for thousands of years to acquire power and finally he was able to transform the...

From the book The Earth-Illumination-Trumpets of Divinity’s home, part 2
Question: Guru, the very beautiful spiritual qualities that we've talked about and that we've read about for so long I do not really feel. What's wrong with me?
But when you are meditating here, you do see Light and feel Light. … Even an aspirant who has meditated at this Centre for the first time has already been blessed by the...
From the book Mind-confusion and heart-illumination, part 1
Question: How can we do well in our studies and also be involved in meditation?
When you pray to God, when you concentrate and meditate on God, when you go deep within, at that time … And these things you can only get from meditation....
From the book Great Masters and the Cosmic Gods
Act II, Scene 8
If one person prays and meditates, and another does not, naturally the former will realise God sooner … You have prayed, you have meditated and you have realised God....
From the book Matsyendranath and Gorakshanath: two spiritual lions
Scene 8
If one person prays and meditates, and another does not, naturally the former will realise God sooner … You have prayed, you have meditated and you have realised God....
From the book The disciple illumines the Master
Question: You say that the undivine forces are always vigilant, full of energy and looking for an opening, whereas the divine forces are more complacent because they know that ultimately the Supreme will be victorious. Is there anything that we can do in our lives to inspire the divine forces to be as vigilant and energetic as the undivine forces?
While we are meditating, if somebody looks at us, our meditation goes up high, higher, highest....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 5
Question: How can I keep my mind from worrying about the past and the future?
Right now if you are not having a good meditation, imagine a time fifteen years ago when you had a good … meditation....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 20
Question: Do your students have the opportunity to come to you privately at home?
Individually they came and sat in front of me to pray and meditate. … If you pray and meditate, you will see the door connecting the two rooms....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 2
Daibel Faye: That is very well said. We have seen people who use worldly material power to do wrong towards people. Thank God that those who have the divine power know how to manage that power and will hopefully do what you are doing, which is to promote peace and unity in the world.
But when we aspire, pray and meditate, we know that if it is absolutely necessary, our Lord Supreme will … As I said before, when I pray and meditate, when I go from one country to another, when I give peace...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 22
Question: What is the difference between desire and aspiration?
The seekers who soulfully pray and meditate feel in the inmost recesses of their hearts the presence … these must be highly developed seekers, seekers who have sincerely practised spiritual life and have meditated...
From the book Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 7
Question: Is there such a thing as false light?
I was meditating at about half-past two or three o’clock in the morning and this force came and stood … On another occasion I was attacked by a hostile force during my meditation; then, afterwards, I discovered...
From the book Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 10
Question: When I read the newspapers and see all the suffering and violence in the world, it upsets me.
But if I cherish or harbour that person’s suffering, then my meditation will be useless. … So when I meditate I don’t think of how someone has shot someone else; I do not allow any force like...
From the book The illumination of life-clouds, part 1
16.
The spiritual aspect — prayers and meditation — I do it, I do it. … In my case, I do meditate for hours and I am also involved in the inner world and in many other worlds...
From the book The inner meaning of sport
Question: How should one go about helping others?
but he does not have a spiritual Master, he may receive divine guidance by going deep within through meditation … through that particular aspirant, then the aspirant will be guided to do so, either through his own meditation...
From the book Service-boat and love-boatman, part 1
Question: Could you speak about the different aspects of the Divine that can be invoked when one breathes through the left and right nostrils?
when you observe that your left nostril is functioning and not your right, then try to concentrate or meditate … During your deepest meditation, you need not think of breath at all....
From the book The body, humanity’s fortress
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, your soul's infinite purity will … In this way you will purify your mind and your heart and you will be able to have a wonderful meditation...
From the book Promised Light from the Beyond
U Thant Peace Award
It is a great privilege for me and for the members of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United … cardinal, fact about our life is the spiritual — that encounter with God in prayer, in worship, in meditation...
From the book Archbishop Desmond Tutu: the World-Compassion-Heart-Nest
Question: About the vision and its fulfilment, how do you know that you are having the right "vision"?
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 kind of vision in your deep meditation, it is correct and...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
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 Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Do we receive anything from you when we sleep during meditations? Do you scold us?
Sometimes you come to meditation agitated and angry with me or some of the disciples. … So in such cases, it is better to fall asleep during meditation, so that you don't throw your anger and...
From the book Reincarnation and evolution
Question: Why did we go from light to darkness when we took birth?
During our meditation we raise our level of consciousness a little, and find ourselves hundreds of miles … Yet, if we remain only where our meditation takes us, above the thorns, and if we cry for perfection,...
From the book Reincarnation and evolution
Question: Does the factor of having spiritual experiences make you closer to the Supreme?
are people who have had only three, four or five major experiences and then, in the process of their meditation … So that gives you inspiration to meditate again and again....
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 3
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, your soul’s infinite purity will … when you say “I am the soul,” you will purify your mind and your heart and you will have a wonderful meditation...
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 2
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island he cleared in the centre of it, made into a memorial to him and, quite specifically, a place of meditation … Erskine Childers Director, Division of Information

Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Director United Nations Meditation...

From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 1, 27 January 1975
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 AUM — Vol.VII-7, No.2, February 1981
Sri Chinmoy meets the Consul General of India[^1]
Nevile to meditate with him on the stage, and presented the Consul with a garland. … Pran Nevile meditate at the University of Chicago....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-5, No. 7,8, July-August 1978
Question: When you hold a meditation such as the recent one at Woodstock, where many, many people
Even if I sit and meditate in a particular hall for only five minutes, if that place is receptive, it … At our Wednesday night meditations at Columbia, and wherever we have what you call special meetings,...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-5, No. 7,8, July-August 1978
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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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