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- Question: What is the significance of the white light which I sometimes see when I meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: White light is the light of divine purity, infinite purity. It is also the light of the Divine Mother. God is both Father and Mother; He is our Eternal Father and He is our Eternal Mother. When God wants to express His Divinity in the feminine aspect, He uses white light. When he sees white light, the seeker can...
- Question: Does the weight of people change when you meditate on them before you lift them?
- Sri Chinmoy: The weight does not change, but if they have oneness with the lifter, if they offer goodwill to the lifter, then it helps the lifter considerably. But the weight, as such, will not...
- Professor Reynolds: I have been teaching a seminar on world peace for about twelve years. I have come to realise that the United Nations is a hopeful organisation although it does need some changes. Since you have been close to the United Nations, maybe you could make some suggestions.
- I go there to offer my services through my prayers and meditation, and many come to pray and meditate … We have come to realise from our prayer and meditation that the human mind as such cannot solve any world...
- Question: What can one do when one feels his aspiration fluctuating? At times I have a feeling of emptiness and nothingness.
- In your case, let us say that every day your appointed time for meditation is six o’clock in the morning … But for the past two days you have been unable to go deep within or meditate sincerely, and now you are … So whenever you have good experiences, high experiences, elevating experiences during your meditation...
- Question: How would you describe the difference between the Brahmin's approach to spirituality and the Kshatriya's approach to spirituality?
- study India's sacred books, such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Vedas and the Upanishads, and meditate … If Brahmins study and meditate on the sacred books in this way, they will be able to realise God. … others, he can still try to bring their good qualities into himself and help them with his prayers and meditation...
- Question: What should a spiritual seeker do when he observes dishonesty or corruption among his colleagues?[^68]
- bring down light from Above or we have to bring to the fore our own inner light through our prayer and meditation … things differently from the way we feel they should be seen or done, then we have to pray to God and meditate … corruption that we are observing, which is a far more serious matter, the first step is to pray and meditate...
- Return to the source
- I prayed to God for so many years and if I deserve any merit from my prayers and meditations, I wish … to offer you the fruits of all my prayers and meditations."
She thought and thought, and she meditated for some time, and then said, "Oh Master, I have come to...
- Question: Why do you tell people to stay in the heart and not in the mind?
- the soul that we can make the fastest progress in the inner life and we can contact the soul only by meditating … This is why I tell my students first to strengthen their inner being by meditating on the heart. … There we can meditate and receive the inner light of the soul until we are inwardly strong....
- My peace-life[^93]
From my prayer-life and meditation-life I have learnt the importance of belief. … That means I pray and meditate, and I practise my peace-life. … But I can get the guidance and assurance I need from a higher force by virtue of my prayer-life, my meditation-life...
- Russell Wilson: Guruji, I have a very difficult question to ask you. Why, in India, which some believe is the centre of all religion and where spirituality plays such an important role, is there so much strife and tension?
- I can get up early in the morning and pray and meditate to become a good person, or I can sleep until … Above and my sincerity, my integrity and my love of God compelled me to get up early in the morning to meditate … But after six months I stopped aspiring and thinking of God, so I no longer get up early to pray and meditate...
- Beyond the disciple's experience
- When you get a fever or any illness, you can’t meditate at all. … In my case, even with the highest fever of 104 or 105 degrees, I will be able to do my best meditation … because my meditation can never be affected by my fever....
- Determination and will-power
- Divine determination automatically comes if we meditate on the heart, on the heart’s light. … If we meditate somewhere else rather than on the heart, our determination may fluctuate. … If we get divine light from our soul during our meditation and if we sincerely pray to the soul to wake...
- Question: Why do you tell people to stay in the heart and not in the mind?
- the soul that we can make the fastest progress in the inner life and we can contact the soul only by meditating … This is why I tell my students first to strengthen their inner being by meditating on the heart. … There we can meditate and receive the inner light of the soul until we are inwardly strong....
- Question: When you meditate and you cry for something, should you also make an effort to achieve
- Why are you getting up early to pray and meditate, whereas your friends are still wallowing in the pleasures … In the beginning we give 50 percent of the credit to ourselves, because we got up to pray and meditate … , and 50 percent to God, because He responded to our prayers and inspired us during our meditation....
- Presentation of bust of U Thant
- Each member of the United Nations Meditation Group will treasure this living presence which I have just … On behalf of all the members of the United Nations Meditation Group, to you I offer our ever-growing … infinite gratitude, and this I offer not only on my behalf but on behalf of all the members of our Meditation...
- A perfect gentleman[^29]
- Sri Chinmoy meditated on a large photograph of Sunil and invited the disciples to join him in chanting … there are some people who are very receptive, who know me well and have a need for our prayers and meditations...
- Perfection
- In the spiritual life, the day that we start meditating, even if it is only for a fleeting second, that … But if we meditate, then we can add something to our creation or go far beyond it....
- Scene 1
EMPRESS: Very often I see that you think of him and meditate on him. … What will your subjects think of you when they come to know that you meditate on a Hindu so deeply and...
- Stopping the heartbeat
One particular tree is still alive in the park where I used to go to meditate. … From time to time, not every day, I used to go and sit at the foot of the tree to pray and meditate....
- Spiritual discipline
To see God only during your surrender at meditation is to declare that God is absent from you more
True meditation has a free access to the inner Being....
- 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....
- Concentration-art[^4]
Concentration-art, meditation-art and contemplation-art. … Meditation-art unveils the prosperous knowledge-dawn....
- The Hindu-Muslim compromise
- Once Devadas went to live and meditate in a Muslim area. … Let him peacefully pray and meditate there and do whatever he wants to do.”...
- Question: Will the consciousness of all the individuals in the world have to be transformed before we have world peace?
- But all of them are not praying and meditating; he is the only one that prays and meditates....
- Part seven: a most significant inner experience[^162]
- There, around one-thirty in the afternoon, I was meditating. … I was in very, very deep trance in my meditation. I was in my very highest....
- Concentration-art[^89]
Concentration-art, meditation-art and contemplation-art. … Meditation-art unveils the prosperous knowledge-dawn....
- Scene 4
- Brahma’s blessingful meditation on the world is just over. Enter four saints.)
(Brahma starts meditating....
- Question: Can you talk about compromise? Because of the stress of our way of life, sometimes I feel I need to vegetate, although I know that is not the best thing to do.
It is like this: when you want to get up at five o’clock to meditate, the mind says, “Oh, it is too … Then, when you finally get up at nine or ten o’clock, the mind says, “You fool, now it is too late to meditate...
- Question: What do you think about the disaster in Chernobyl, and what do you think about the near future of the world, about peace?
This inspiration comes from prayer and meditation. As we sow within, so we become without. … Early in the morning if we pray, if we meditate, if we offer our good thoughts to humanity, then we establish...
- Daibel Faye: Could you tell us what your mission is and what you are trying to achieve?
- When we pray, when we meditate, we try to become a better person. … Only when I meditate in silence or play soulful music do I feel peace in the inmost recesses of my heart...