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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- A significant question
- For seekers to meditate for thirty-five minutes in silence is a great achievement!...
- The spiritual realtor
- The reason: because you meditate. Three apartments I couldn’t get because I belong to a “cult.”...
- The Passport and Visa Section
- It was no larger than my present meditation room. Two or three people had to share the same table....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Appendix: these quotes, from other writings of Sri Chinmoy, were included in the first editions.
When I meditate, God cares about me....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Question: Can one find the fulfilment of his life in religion?
- And this principle is what we call spirituality: aspiration, prayer and meditation....
- 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...
- Scene I
- Why don’t you ask someone to bring food to Durvasha every day, so that he can continue his meditating...
- An eminent Canadian visitor
- Last Wednesday night, when I was playing the cello during our meditation, somebody came in the inner...
- Music[^69]
- His soulful music is his soulful prayer, and his fruitful meditation is another name for his fruitful...
- Question: How can I be sure that I will make continuous progress in my spiritual life?
- Here you are studying prayer and meditation....
- Question: Can you say that you have created your own style of life?
- I pray and meditate....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- Interview[^2]
- Today we are very happy to have with us in the studio the internationally famous musician, artist, meditation...