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Question: Can japa be done at any time?
If you meditate before going to bed you will invoke peace, light and bliss, but if you do japa five hundred...
From the book Prayer-world, mantra-world and japa-world
Question: How do you realise God without going to live in a cave?
Most spiritual Masters, such as Sri Ramakrishna, the Buddha, Sri Aurobindo and others, did not meditate...
From the book God, Avatars and yogis
Question: What is the relationship between individual aspiration and collective aspiration?
inspire the seekers who have not yet found the Source or who do not have any temple in which to pray and meditate...
From the book Inner progress and satisfaction-life
A significant question
For seekers to meditate for thirty-five minutes in silence is a great achievement!...
From the book The world-experience-tree-climber, part 2
The spiritual realtor
The reason: because you meditate. Three apartments I couldn’t get because I belong to a “cult.”...
From the book The world-experience-tree-climber, part 3
The Passport and Visa Section
It was no larger than my present meditation room. Two or three people had to share the same table....
From the book My Consulate years
Question: I feel that I am drawn towards something which I do not know. It is something unknown. I am attracted to something, but I am not sure what it is.
Sri Chinmoy: If it is meditation that you are attracted to, then you have to take it as fragrance....
From the book You belong to God
Steve Powers: Many people get up in the morning, swallow a quick breakfast, run out of the house and go to their subway, get to work and get completely involved with everyday survival. And before the end of the day it's pretty tough to sit back and take a spiritual view of what's going on because you have to go out there and hustle. You have to earn a living. Is there a way of integrating the spiritual life into what we call the economic life?
But early in the morning if we pray to God and meditate on God for a few minutes, then we get peace of...
From the book Truth's fountain-melody
Question: Some of the Gurus who have come to the West have got bad press, and they have been accused of things that you wouldn't associate with a sincere God-server. They have got hundreds of thousands of disciples and vast amounts of wealth. I gather from what I have read about you, that you are not interested in amassing any wealth in the United States, or in getting a great number of followers. Is that true?
I have given hundreds of spiritual talks and I have meditated with countless people and I never, never...
From the book Flame-Waves, part 11
Question: How can we overcome our ego-motivated life and self-centredness?
When we pray, when we meditate, we have to feel that our achievements are meaningful and fruitful only...
From the book Flame-Waves, part 8
Appendix: these quotes, from other writings of Sri Chinmoy, were included in the first editions.

When I meditate, God cares about me....

From the book Flame-Waves, part 4
Question: How does the cleanliness of the surroundings affect the food you cook?
It will also be of considerable help if you can be in a meditative consciousness....
From the book Secrets of the inner world
Question: If an inspiration comes into the mind when one is meditating, should one follow the inspiration
During meditation some people think of making most delicious cookies or eggplant....
From the book The mind and the heart in meditation
Question: How can one pick a mantra?
So, if you do not have a Master, then please pray and meditate for a couple of years and then, I assure...
From the book Experiences of the higher worlds
Question: Guru, when I start aspiring to meditate, I feel your compassion coming down and I feel … Should I stop and surrender or should I try to keep on aspiring during the meditation and go higher?
Sri Chinmoy: When you see that I am smiling during your meditation, at that time the joy that you get...
From the book Experiences of the higher worlds
Question: Can one find the fulfilment of his life in religion?
And this principle is what we call spirituality: aspiration, prayer and meditation....
From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
Question: How can we know God's Will?
Sri Chinmoy: In order to know God’s Will convincingly, we have to meditate most soulfully and reach our...
From the book World-destruction: never, impossible! part 1
Scene I
Why don’t you ask someone to bring food to Durvasha every day, so that he can continue his meditating...
From the book The Singer of the Eternal Beyond
An eminent Canadian visitor
Last Wednesday night, when I was playing the cello during our meditation, somebody came in the inner...
From the book My weightlifting tears and smiles, part 3
Music[^69]
His soulful music is his soulful prayer, and his fruitful meditation is another name for his fruitful...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 3
Question: How can I be sure that I will make continuous progress in my spiritual life?
Here you are studying prayer and meditation....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 20
Question: Can you say that you have created your own style of life?
I pray and meditate....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 19
Question: If we are in a good consciousness at night, can we feel when you come to help our souls?
during the night, for any reason, you will feel something if you wash your eyes, ears and nose and then meditate...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 7
Interviewer: So as part of this inspiration, did you feel that birds were something that you should draw?
Through prayer and meditation we become simple, sincere, humble and pure....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 3
Question: Is it more effective to pray for peace of mind or for cheerfulness when you are unhappy?
When your whole being is restless, when you can't meditate even for a fleeting second, when you are full...
From the book The giver and the receiver
Question: A neighbour of mine swears very loudly, and when he does that, I always say, "God bless you." Is this the right thing to do?
As God is hearing your prayers and observing your meditation, so also God is listening to his curses....
From the book A life of blossoming love
Question: Why don't people have as much awareness of their soul while living as they do between one lifetime and another?
If we pray and meditate, we can become fully aware of the soul’s divine activities....
From the book The eternal journey
Student: Do you actually feel physically stronger, or are you so totally outside your body that it is meaningless?
Or you can say, my meditation is my drug. A number of people in this field take drugs....
From the book A mystic journey in the weightlifting world, part 1
Question: What happens when we dream about you?
If you meditate well you will get the same result. But if you see me in a dream, it is a sign....
From the book The journey of silver dreams
Interview[^2]
Today we are very happy to have with us in the studio the internationally famous musician, artist, meditation...
From the book Aspiration-body, illumination-soul, part 3
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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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