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- IV. Two revolvers
- On the evening of 15 August 1964, a brother-disciple, Joseph Heil, invited me to meditate at his house … We had a deep meditation and a long, serious talk, which lasted until 2:30 in the morning....
- Question: When I meditate, I sometimes feel a kind of pressure pushing in my mind.
- Sri Chinmoy: In your mind, if you feel a kind of pressure, it means that your heart is invoking something which the mind feels is beyond its capacity to receive. The heart invokes, and the mind allows the reality or divinity to descend into the heart to some extent. But when it has not become totally one with the heart, the...
- Question: Why is it necessary to have flowers, candles and incense in order to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: When we keep our physical body clean and pure, when we offer flowers at our shrine, when we burn candles and incense, these things give us an additional opportunity to convince our physical mind that we are doing something most significant. But this is not the ultimate reason. The ultimate reason is to make...
- Question: Sometimes when I have been meditating, my head starts to breathe on its own.
- Sri Chinmoy: There is nothing wrong with this. It is quite possible that it is doing this. When this happens, the head has become a conscious part of the universal Existence and the head responds to the universal Existence. There is an occult way of developing oneness with the universal Consciousness. That is what you...
- Question: How can we keep the mind pure when we are not concentrating or meditating?
- Sri Chinmoy: The best thing you can do is learn a few spiritual songs and sing them to yourself in silence while you are working or driving your car or doing anything that does not require mental concentration. While you are chanting in silence, your mind is being purified because your soul is coming forward. When you chant or...
- Question: Should your disciples only try to see and meditate on the Supreme inside you?
- Sri Chinmoy: Because I am a little more advanced than you, I can see my Beloved Supreme inside each and every one of you. Sri Ramakrishna used to tell Vivekananda, “I am seeing in you God Himself. I can talk to Him face to face.” Was he a liar of the first water? Never! This was his authentic inner experience. You can do the...
- Question: How can we prepare ourselves to be more receptive for our Wednesday night meditations?
For an hour or an hour and a half we meditate. … your question, on Wednesday nights, before I come to the meeting, you can read some book and create a meditative...
- Question: Is it important to take a shower before coming to meditate at the Centre?
- Otherwise, you will disturb the meditation and pull down the consciousness of the persons sitting near...
- Question: What does Yoga mean for you and what is the benefit of meditating regularly?
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- Question: I have been meditating on my navel centre. Do you feel this is wise?
- You should meditate on your heart centre to get peace and love and joy....
- Question: Is there any special way we should meditate on a person who is dying?
- Through your concentration and meditation, you are entering into the heartbeat of that person....
- Question: I would like to ask you how you experience God when you meditate?[^8]
- 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 infinitely...
- Bliss[^12]
When we pray and meditate soulfully, we are bound to attain peace. … But there is a specific kind of meditation that is the easiest way to acquire peace. … If a seeker can meditate on the setting sun, then it is easy for him to feel the presence of peace. … And if the same seeker meditates on the rising sun, then it is easy for him to achieve bliss. … He has been expecting bliss because he has prayed and meditated....
- Bliss[^23]
- When we pray and meditate soulfully, we are bound to attain peace. … But there is a specific kind of meditation that is the easiest way to acquire peace. … If a seeker can meditate on the setting sun, then it is easy for him to feel the presence of peace. … And if the same seeker meditates on the rising sun, then it is easy for him to achieve bliss. … He has been expecting bliss because he has prayed and meditated....
- Scene 2
- I shall meditate day in and day out until I have reached my Transcendental Goal. … Shall we eat or shall we meditate?
NANDINI: My Lord, let us meditate first and then eat.
(Both Vashistha and Nandini start meditating. Light and delight are sporting in their eyes....
- Duty Supreme[^7]
- But unfortunately we forget the other duty: meditation. … are clever enough to cry for the fruits of realisation long before we have entered into the field of meditation … No meditation, no realisation. Without meditation, God-Realisation is nothing but self-deception....
- Duty supreme
- But unfortunately we forget the other duty: meditation. … are clever enough to cry for the fruits of realisation long before we have entered into the field of meditation … No meditation, no realisation. Without meditation, God-realisation is nothing but self-deception....
- Burning with grief
- When the disciple meditated, he would reach the very highest plane. … But instead of earning money to support his family, he used to spend all his time in meditation. … When this disciple was able to meditate in peace, he had the highest inner experiences, but when he came … I know he will take good care of her, and while she is gone I will be able to meditate without any interruptions...
- Inner experiences
- If it is a real experience, then before you start your meditation you will get tremendous joy. … Then, when you enter into meditation, you will feel even greater joy; the experience will give you a … This morning I did so many wrong things, I did not meditate — I did this and that.” … At that time do not try to approach me on the spiritual plane through meditation....
- Report from the United Nations
- (films and slides) which were used as part of the “Spiritual Forum Day” (6 June) and the “Yoga and Meditation
Members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre attended the lighting of the ceremonial fire, the sunrise meditations
Later that evening, the Spiritual Forum again assembled, this time for the “Full Moon Meditation,” … At the Forum and around the world, spiritual brothers and sisters from many different paths meditated...
- Duty supreme[^2]
- But unfortunately we forget the other duty: meditation. … are clever enough to cry for the fruits of realisation long before we have entered into the field of meditation … No meditation; no realisation. Without meditation, God-Realisation is nothing but self-deception....
- Question: Could you speak about vibrations?
- Then again, when you are in the meditation hall, you will get a hundred out of a hundred....
- 12 May 1995, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, France
- I am extremely happy and fortunate that my students and I have been offering our prayers and meditations...
- Music[^13]
- His soulful music is his soulful prayer, and his fruitful meditation is another name for his fruitful...
- Question: I am a beginning seeker and I work in a bar. I was wondering if that will be detrimental to my spiritual life?
- When you have grown strong inwardly, when you have acquired inner wealth from your meditation, at that...
- Scene 1
- Why don’t you ask someone to bring food to Durvasha every day, so that he can continue his meditating...
- Receptivity
- How many people are really receptive when I concentrate and meditate on them?...
- Question: Is it possible to get liberation and never see God and talk to God?
- A really realised soul doesn’t have to meditate two hours before he can see God....
- Question: When I meditate and I force myself to go deep within, something inside me accuses me of
- But if He wants me to be without problems, so that I can think of Him and meditate on Him all the time...
- Question: Guru, there is a thought that inspires me and I would like to know if I could meditate
- child with only a heart, then two hearts are being blended into one and that is a very good form of meditation...