Enter terms
• Search tips »
Pages found: 8579
- Interviewer: We often have preconceived limits of what our physical and mental capacities are. You know, just looking at the weight that you are going to be lifting makes me exhausted! Do you think that we limit ourselves too much as individuals?
- But no, we can come out on the strength of our prayer and meditation and we can fly in the sky of Infinity...
- Question: Should we concentrate on the heart in order to control the mind?
- Then, when nothing is coming into your mind, you are ready for meditation....
- Kanu's prayers
- When he does not want to pray or meditate, no matter how hard I beg him, he will not do it....
- Question: Does power manifest itself through each individual according to his soul's quality?
- But the subtle power which comes when we prayerfully meditate, when our mind is calm and quiet, is peace...
- Interviewer: Now, for the many listeners who are living in this county of Kent in England, how can your spirituality, your teachings, help them?
- So before we go to work, before we enter into the hustle and bustle of the world, we should pray and meditate...
- Question: How can I sublimate or conquer my desires?
- Through concentration and meditation, you can have inner Joy and inner Light....
- Question: So what that person did has nothing to do with Yoga?
- unite themselves with God, whereas in helping someone in his aspiration, his concentration and his meditation...
- I have faith in Joy Days!
- When my children meet together to pray, meditate and play, they feed their souls, they feed their hearts...
- Music[^5]
- His fruitful meditation is another name for his fruitful music....
- Question: What is the effect, if there is one, when we pronounce the name of the Supreme devotedly, soulfully or forcefully when we are in danger?
- At the time of meditation or at the time of the disciple’s inner spiritual discipline, he has to say...
- Question: So what that person did has nothing to do with Yoga?
- unite themselves with God, whereas in helping someone in his aspiration, his concentration and his meditation...
- Question: What do you remember as being a difficult problem you had to overcome on the road to God-realisation?
- In some cases for six months they had a dry period and they could not meditate....
- The power of Lord Shiva's name
- Let me try to pray and meditate for the brief time that I have left on earth.” … I am ready to pray and meditate. Please tell me what I should do.”
“If I pray and meditate, will it make any difference?” asked the wife.
“Yes,” they said. … “You can certainly pray and meditate.
So the wife started praying and meditating most fervently....
- Religion, spirituality and yoga
- Chapel
- Religion, spirituality and yoga[^3]
- Religion is the house, spirituality is the living room, yoga is the prayer and meditation room. … The house is beautiful, the living room is meaningful, the prayer and meditation room is fruitful. … They feel that it is of utmost importance to pray to God and meditate on God so that they can be divinely … They cry to God in their prayer and meditation room for boundless Peace, Light and Bliss so that they … They meditate on God so they can manifest His perfect Perfection in and through themselves....
- Religion, spirituality and yoga[^2]
- Religion is the house, spirituality is the living room, Yoga is the prayer and meditation room. … The house is beautiful, the living room is meaningful, the prayer and meditation room is fruitful. … They feel that it is of utmost importance to pray to God and meditate on God so that they can be divinely … They cry to God in their prayer and meditation room for boundless Peace, Light and Bliss so that they … They meditate on God so they can manifest His perfect Perfection in and through themselves....
- WMCA-radio interview
- If we start to pray to God and meditate on God, then we must know that we are doing all this because … Religions quarrel and wrangle, but prayer and meditation do not quarrel or fight. … Spirituality means soulful prayer and meditation.
Steve Powers: One of the problems I think people have is that even if they pray and meditate or if
Sri Chinmoy: Prayer and meditation can solve all our problems....
- The Secret Supreme[^15]
- If you want to realise the Secret Supreme, you have to meditate. You have to know how to meditate. … Until you have a teacher of your own, you have to meditate all alone. … During your meditation, do not be afraid of anything. Fear is something you can and must give up. … During your meditation, do not fight against evil thoughts. … During your meditation, try to cultivate divine Love. Try to love humanity soulfully....
- Perfection-goal[^36]
- Man’s meditation on perfection is his wisdom. … We have to meditate. Aspiration includes meditation. … When we meditate, we have to feel that we are entering into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality.
- The Secret Supreme
- If you want to realise the Secret Supreme, you have to meditate. You have to know how to meditate. … Until you have a Teacher of your own, you have to meditate all alone. … During your meditation, do not be afraid of anything. Fear is something you can and must give up. … During your meditation, do not fight against evil thoughts.
During your meditation, try to cultivate divine love. Try to love humanity soulfully....
- Perfection-Goal
- Man's meditation on perfection is his wisdom. … We have to meditate. Aspiration includes meditation. … When we meditate, we have to feel that we are entering into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality.
- Perfection-Goal[^3]
- Man’s meditation on perfection is his wisdom. … We have to meditate. Aspiration includes meditation. … When we meditate, we have to feel that we are entering into infinity, eternity, and immortality.
- Perfection-goal[^3]
- Man’s meditation on perfection is his wisdom. … We have to meditate. Aspiration includes meditation. … When we meditate, we have to feel that we are entering into infinity, eternity and immortality.
- Question: I become afraid when I have to meditate or perform in front of other people.
- Sri Chinmoy: Suppose you are in front of a group of two hundred people. Do not take them as two hundred people; take them as one individual. Feel that you are looking at one face. No matter how many people are there, take them as one person. When only one person is in front of you, you will not become frightened. But if you see...
- Question: What does it mean when you have a pain in your chest when you meditate?
- If you know that there is nothing wrong with you physically, then if you feel pain at the time of meditation … , you have to feel that you are not breathing properly when you are meditating. … If you really want God for God's sake, then there can be no pain during your meditation....
- Question: What good does it do if a Yogi stays in a Himalayan cave and meditates?
- He is meditating....
- Question: If I meditate on a person, can I be with him on the inner plane?
- Sri Chinmoy: Certainly you can. If you have an intimate friend who is absolutely sympathetic to you and your inner life, you can try this with him: you have to enter into him and you have to breathe simultaneously with him. If two sincere, dedicated, aspiring souls sit together every day and practise breathing together, they...
- Question: How do you go about emptying your mind in order to be able to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: First, you have to aspire. Then, you have to make your mind vacant. You should not allow any thought to enter into your mind and take shape. Suppose a name comes. As soon as the first letter of the name appears, you kill the name. You have to make your mind vacant, as empty...
- Question: With each new day, how can I have the feeling of transcendence, especially in meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: Every day comes to you as a new hope, new promise, new aspiration, new energy, new thrill and new delight. You have already seen thousands of days and tomorrow will dawn in its turn. If you think that tomorrow will be just another day like the thousands that have gone before, then you will make no progress. You...
- Question: Do you have to sit in a certain posture or close your eyes to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: No, we don't have to sit in special posture. It is not necessary. Only we have to keep our backbone erect. We have to sit in an erect position so that we can breathe in properly. But we don't have to sit in the cross-legged position in order to practise Yoga. Yoga does not demand that kind of austerity. Only we...