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- Brenda Smith's hospitality[^12]
- On November 14th, the day after we inaugurated the meditation at the British Parliament, I went to visit...
- Two brothers
- At the river bank the elder brother sat down and entered into deep meditation....
- Question: Is it necessary for the Master and disciple to come together on occasion?
- plane, then the disciple has to remain in contact with the Master through his most sincere and intense meditation...
- Question: I have an experience here at your Dag Hammarskjold lectures which I never am aware of at your other talks. I know you are bringing down tremendous Peace, which I feel in both places, but here at these lectures I have a feeling that I am falling asleep. Yet I hear what you are saying.
- which illumines the darkness that you faced or the ignorance that you cherished before you entered into meditation...
- Question: For how long can a realised soul remain in savikalpa samadhi?
- If someone is a great aspirant and if he has been meditating for many years, he can have savikalpa samadhi...
- Question: When a child asks you, "Who is God?" what is the best answer to give him?
- In the case of adults, they have to pray and meditate and develop a divine consciousness....
- Editor's note
- The inspirational messages in this book were offered by Sri Chinmoy after morning meditations during...
- Question: So, if God gives us succour, helps us, and we aspire for God, will those necessities and our desire to satisfy them remain as long as we are alive?
- So, when there is real joy within us -- when we meditate for five minutes or ten minutes -- we get inner...
- Attachment-cry versus oneness-sky
- If you pray and meditate, you will see the soul of your wife everywhere....
- Liberty Torch Run completed
- Casey Conrad: We have a special award to make to Sri Chinmoy, Director of the United Nation Meditation...
- Question: I was playing the piano one day and there appeared a green light, a kind I had never seen before. It was transparent, but yet it had a body. It filled the whole room, this very lucid green. I saw the piece of sheet-music in that colour. What does that green signify?
- You have to meditate to get them....
- Confidence
- Before God-realisation it is almost an impossible task to have supreme confidence in one's aspiration-life.
Only a self-giving devotee can have ecstatic confidence in the depths of his heart.
If we can earnestly and soulfully meditate, then we can easily have cheerful confidence.
Perfect confidence is not in earth-possession but in self-illumination.
To acquire victory's crown one must cultivate confidence in his spiritual life.
If a seeker is not continuously blessed with purity-breath, then he is bound to betray arrogant confidence, at least occasionally.
Success in the outer plane does not remain a far cry after the mind has been flooded with divine confidence.
Devilish confidence and destruction are immediate neighbours.
To have complacent confidence is to invite the beginning of fast-approaching perdition in one's inner life.
If you are a good seeker, then you will try to cultivate confidence in the depths of your aspiring heart, and not enjoy unfounded confidence with your obscure and impure vital.
A disciplined life can unmistakably create confidence in the searching mind.
If you allow your clever mind to undermine your spiritual confidence in your life, then you are doomed to disappointment.
Confidence in my mind wavers.
Confidence in my heart soars.Confidence in my soul prevails. Relaxation is confidence in full operation.
- Question: I would like to ask something. What is the difference between the Voice of the Silence and the Voice of Yoga? Or is there a difference?[^3]
- During your meditation, for example, you can go deep within and you will hear the Voice of the Silence...
- Question: Guru, have you ever gone backward or forward in time? In science fiction they have time machines where you can go backwards and forwards. Instead of speaking to Krishna in the inner worlds, let us say, have you ever actually gone back to the time of the Mahabharata and seen him there? Could you actually walk around in a scene that happened hundreds of years ago?
- If somebody wants to see me in a meditative consciousness, he does not have to see my soul or see me...
- Human teachers and divine teachers[^5]
- These two subjects are prayer and meditation.
The other subject the student has to learn is meditation. … This love he offers to the subject that he is studying: meditation. … His sublime meditation makes him feel that God the Creator and he the creation are inseparable.
The student has learned how to pray, how to concentrate and how to meditate....
- Question: Is it possible to eventually feel our soul through meditation consisting of prolonged singing
- Sri Chinmoy: It is quite possible to see, feel and grow into the soul's light and reality through singing and chanting. It all depends on how you do it. While singing and chanting, if you look around to see whether others are appreciating your extraordinary voice, you will never be able to feel your soul. If you are watching to...
- Donna Halper: In addition to meditation, do your disciples practise any chanting or anything of that
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, they do chant occasionally. I have composed quite a few melodies for verses from the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. I have set tune to quite a few verses, and my students occasionally...
- Question: When you shower Light on us when we are meditating, how can we be most receptive?
- Sri Chinmoy: You can be most receptive on the strength of your own simplicity, sincerity, purity and humility. When you bring to the fore your own divine qualities — simplicity, sincerity, purity and humility — then you can receive the utmost. And inside simplicity, inside sincerity, inside purity, inside humility, please try...
- Question: But if we are confused and nervous, how will meditation ever be able to help us?
- If somebody is assailed by anxiety, worry and confusion, meditation is the remedy....
- Question: I read something about the control of breath in meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: When you breathe in, try to breathe in as slowly and as quietly as possible. The highest type of spiritual breathing, which is not at all dangerous, is to breathe in so slowly and quietly that if somebody placed a tiny thread in front of your nose it would not move at all. While breathing in as slowly as possible,...
- Question: If someone has read about Yoga and meditated on his own, should he seek a Guru?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, he should seek a Guru because a Guru is one who can expedite his spiritual knowledge, spiritual wisdom, spiritual journey. If one studies books, it will be to his advantage. But mere studying will not be enough to grant him realisation. Again, if someone reads spiritual books and has a Master, then reading...
- Joel Martin: How do your disciples reflect the fruits of the meditation that they practise with you
- Sri Chinmoy: I tell my disciples that they have to lead a very spiritual life, a life of simplicity, a life of sincerity and a life of purity. I tell them that they must pay utmost attention to the inner cry that is inside the very depth of their hearts. And I tell them to unlearn most of the things that their minds have taught...
- Question: Why do we encounter all sorts of problems and difficulties when making preparations for public meditations
- My attitude was that I had an hour and a half in which I was able to meditate. … But instead I said, "I am so lucky — I am getting an hour and a half to meditate here."...
- Interviewer: When you were standing on the platform, you were, I think, meditating.
- Sri Chinmoy: I was concentrating on the cosmic force or universal power and trying to draw it...
- Question: Do you have to be a divine person and meditate well in order to realise God?
- Sri Chinmoy: Some people who work very, very hard for a spiritual Master will get realisation. They may be nasty to everybody, but they serve the Master like anything.
The Buddha had a cousin who used to speak ill of him. When the cousin died, somebody said to the Buddha, "What will happen to him?" The Buddha said, "Long...
- Question: Guru, sometimes when you come into the meditation hall, you ask people not to stand up.
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, I do it out of compassion. Sometimes, believe me, when I come inside, I see that you people are glued to your chairs. Why should I torture you? You have got the perfect nest, so why do I have to compel the...
- The journey's start, the journey's close[^8]
- The earth-consciousness inspires us to meditate on the transcendental Truth and realise the transcendental … The Heaven-consciousness inspires us to meditate on love and manifest love in the heart of earth.
When we meditate in the heart we come to realise that God is infinite and God is omnipotent. … This is what our inner meditation can offer us. … Our heart’s meditation also tells us that God is dearer than the dearest and that He is our only Beloved...
- God's Dream-Boat and man's life-boat
Man's Life-Boat: I concentrate, I meditate, I contemplate. What else is left? … divine duties must be drawn up by us, in which top priority must, by all manner of means, be given to meditation … Let us meditate. Our life-breath let us not waste. … Let us work, let us meditate, for our dedicated life-activities are unmistakably the supernal glories
Meditate on God.You will see God seated inside you....
- The journey's start, the journey's close
- The earth-consciousness inspires us to meditate on the Transcendental Truth and realise the Transcendental … The Heaven-Consciousness inspires us to meditate on love and manifest love in the heart of earth.
When we meditate in the heart, we come to realise that God is infinite and God is omnipotent. … This is what our inner meditation can offer us. … Our heart’s meditation also tells us that God is dearer than the dearest and that He is our only Beloved...
- Everybody cannot be treated in the same way
- At night I would go to the meditation hall to meditate, and at 9:30 he would come with a letter, and … Out of two thousand people, why did the Mother want me to meditate in Sri Aurobindo’s room? … They showed me how to open the door and I started meditating. … I was meditating right in front of Sri Aurobindo’s door....