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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...
From the book Aspiration-body, illumination-soul, part 3
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....
From the book The silent mind
Kanu's prayers
When he does not want to pray or meditate, no matter how hard I beg him, he will not do it....
From the book Friendship with the animal kingdom
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...
From the book Creation and perfection
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...
From the book My Rose Petals, part 7
Question: How can I sublimate or conquer my desires?
Through concentration and meditation, you can have inner Joy and inner Light....
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 2
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...
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 1
I have faith in Joy Days!
When my children meet together to pray, meditate and play, they feed their souls, they feed their hearts...
From the book The temple and the shrine
Music[^5]
His fruitful meditation is another name for his fruitful music....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-5, No. 9,10, September-October 1978
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...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 2, February 1980
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...
From the book AUM — Vol. 4, No. 4,5, Nov. — 27 Dec. 1968
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....
From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 9, 27 September 1975
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....

From the book The Earth-Illumination-Trumpets of Divinity’s home, part 3
Religion, spirituality and yoga
Chapel

26 October 1975 Religion is the house, spirituality is the living room, Yoga is the prayer and meditation … 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 that they can manifest His perfect Perfection in and through themselves....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
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....
From the book Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 2
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....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-2, No.10, 27 October 1975
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....

From the book AUM — Vol.II-4, No. 7, 27 July 1977
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....
From the book Eastern light for the Western mind
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.

Then, when we become advanced in our meditation, when meditation starts offering us its fruit, we … They have to swim in the sea of meditation....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
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....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
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.

Then, when we become advanced in our meditation, when meditation starts offering us its fruit, we … They have to swim in the sea of meditation....

From the book Realisation-Soul and Manifestation-Goal
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.

Then, when we are advanced in our meditation, when meditation starts offering its fruit to us, we … They have to swim in the sea of meditation....

From the book My Rose Petals, part 1
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.

Then, when we are advanced in our meditation, when meditation starts offering its fruit to us, we … They have to swim in the sea of meditation....

From the book AUM — Vol. 6, No. 9, 27 Apr. 1971
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...
From the book Ego and self-complacency
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....
From the book The hunger of darkness and the feast of light, part 2
Question: What good does it do if a Yogi stays in a Himalayan cave and meditates?
He is meditating....
From the book Flame-Waves, part 12
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...
From the book Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
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...
From the book Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
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...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 35
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...
From the book Selfless service-light
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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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