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- The astral journey
- One rainy night about eighty years ago, a spiritual Master was sitting in his meditation room with a
The Master meditated for a moment and then began. … All of a sudden an Indian Buddhist monk came in, walked right up to the judge and said, ‘Meditate, meditate … The court was in session, but the monk went right in and asked the judge to meditate....
- Question: What special message can be learned when disciples work for you for many hours without sleeping?
- Plus, during our Thursday night meditation, I gave them in a fleeting minute what it would have taken … them ten months of rigorous prayer and meditation to achieve. … If they had meditated sincerely, devotedly and one-pointedly for a minimum of ten months, they would … have got a certain amount of Light from their prayer and meditation, or from the cosmic gods or, let … He will sleep during the day or sleep during his meditation the following day....
- 14. Mrs. Lemle's remarks when presenting the official award to Sri Chinmoy, and Sri Chinmoys reply.
- He is the head of the United Nations Meditation Group and he has people from the different United Nations … countries meditating together. … Sri Chinmoy stood there and just meditated, and everybody felt it. … My gratitude-heart is my soulful meditation. … This inspiration, aspiration and meditation of mine have been helping me to become a devoted instrument...
- The journey's start, the journey's close[^2]
- 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.
Now when we meditate in the heart we come to realise that God is infinite plus 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...
- No liberation for the idle
- The disciple was extremely devoted to his Master and he used to meditate hours and hours every day. … He continued praying, meditating and getting high experiences. … “O Master, I have been meditating for years and years, every day for six, seven, eight hours. … O God, are you not aware how hard I have been working and meditating?” … I have been meditating for hours and hours daily....
- Question: Guru, in the morning prayer that we are supposed to say every day, the second half says, "When I see my Master's God-smiling eyes, my God-realisation-hope blooms..." Because I have no conception of God-realisation, I can't really relate to the second half of that mantra.
- But you can and do love God; you can and do pray and meditate, even though right now God remains for … In the case of God-realisation, we study the subject through our prayer, meditation and other disciplines … It is the most difficult subject, but whoever is praying and meditating sincerely, or even insincerely … In the spiritual life also, we start with prayer and meditation. … During our prayers and meditations, our soul or the Supreme tells us inwardly what should be done....
- Psychic power and will-power
- We shall meditate together and this meditation will be founded on our spiritual imagination.
All present try to meditate on the golden dawn with Sri Chinmoy.
AUM. … Now let us meditate on our forehead. Let us imagine that it is now midday.
Seekers present join Sri Chinmoy in meditating on this blazing sun.
We have meditated on the psychic power consciousness by imagining the golden dawn inside the very...
- The Secret Supreme[^1]
- If you want to realise the Secret Supreme, you shall have to meditate. … You have to know how to meditate. And for that you need a spiritual teacher. … Until you have a teacher of your own you have to meditate all alone. … During your meditation do not fight against evil thoughts. … During your meditation try to cultivate divine love. Try to love humanity soulfully....
- God's school[^86]
- But if we pray and meditate, Divinity gets ample chance to come forward. … That is why a sincere seeker, a seeker of the Absolute Truth, meditates daily.
There are some seekers here who are strong, who meditate regularly, devotedly and soulfully. … To them I wish to say that what they can and should expect from their meditation is joy, inner joy — … We have seen during our meditation that Reality, Divinity and Immortality do exist....
- God's School[^5]
- But if we pray and meditate, Divinity gets ample chance to come forward. … That is why a sincere seeker, a seeker of the Absolute Truth, meditates daily.
There are some seekers here who are strong, who meditate regularly, devotedly and soulfully. … To them I wish to say that what they can and should expect from their meditation is joy, inner joy — … We have seen during our meditation that Reality, Divinity and Immortality do exist....
- The Buddha[^17]
Meditation gives enlightenment, feels a Hinayanist. … Meditation, prayer and invocation — all these give enlightenment, feels a Mahayanist....
- Question: Can we achieve purity by entering into you?
The best way to achieve purity is through sincere aspiration and deep meditation. … But if you can't meditate well, if you do not have tremendous aspiration, you have to know that there...
- Question: I have had a few incredible experiences. It seemed as if I was entering a different world, a totally different consciousness. But when I try to analyse them they seem so unreal that I think it must all be hallucination.
- The experiences that you are getting are not due to your proper meditation. … It is through aspiration, meditation and contemplation that we can have all our highest experiences at...
- Notes to photographs
He meditated before the statue and spontaneously offered his obeisance to Netaji in the form of an
Sri Chinmoy offers a moment of silent meditation before beginning his Peace Concert at the Kyoto Conference...
- Act 1, Scene 19
Buddha, you got up very early in the morning and started meditating. … Since I was neither sleeping nor meditating, Father came to me and gave me the message of Jesus’ arrival...
- Spirituality: What it is and what it is not[^1]
- It is the mother of concentration, meditation and realisation. … Meditation silently brings God to me. Realisation neither takes me to God nor brings God to me....
- Immortality[^35]
- God meditates on man for his immortal perfection. … Man meditates on God for His immortal Manifestation.
To copy others is an act of stupidity....
- The boil-illumination[^16]
- Every day this seeker used to pray and meditate with his friends. … I want only to pray and meditate and realise You....
- The Prince
Meditation gives Enlightenment, feels a Hinayanist. … Meditation, Prayer and Invocation, all these give Enlightenment, feels a Mahayanist....
- Question: Once you were joking that you gave a disciple bad advice. How could an Avatar do something that is not right?
- There were some spiritual Masters of the highest calibre who, for one month or six months, could not meditate … They openly told their disciples, in order to encourage them, “I myself was not able to meditate for...
- Sail your own boat[^11]
- One day after the morning meditation, the Master called this particular disciple aside and said, "Madu … Then the Master came to learn that the young man had begun attending meditations at one of his distant...
- Spirituality: what it is and what it is not[^72]
- It is the mother of concentration, meditation and realisation. … Meditation silently brings God to me. Realisation neither takes me to God nor brings God to me....
- Immortality
- God meditates on man for his immortal perfection. … Man meditates on God for His immortal Manifestation.
To copy others is an act of stupidity....
- Question: In the beginning of the year you said you were so proud that in this difficult year our vitals — unlike our minds — chose to help us in our spiritual life. I was wondering if you could give us some tips on how to make use of that strength in fighting our spiritual battles.
- And when we pray and meditate, we see that His Heart is inside His very Breath. … The deeper we go in our meditation, the sooner it becomes clear to us that He takes our spiritual failures...
- Question: In the beginning of my spiritual life I had a lot of enthusiasm but it has waned. How can I continue to make steady progress?
- We also have to study, to meditate with greatest enthusiasm, but it is a bad mistake to set a date for … life there comes a time, after five or fifteen or even thirty years, depending on God's Will, when meditation...
- A special message for Narada[^1]
- He meditated with Narada privately and then met with many of Narada's seeker-friends. … During their private meditation, Sri Chinmoy offered Narada the following message....
- Question: As we physically encounter each other in our daily lives, what can we do to bring peace, love and harmony to our immediate family members and also to those we do not know?
- He knows that he is spiritually strong not because he has risen early each morning to pray and meditate … , but because God Himself has prayed and meditated in and through him....
- Mrs. Lebenson: But people are limited in their capacity for happiness.
- And for that, I have to pray, I have to meditate. … But if they want to have more happiness, then they have to pray and meditate....
- Question: Although I am sure that this is my path and I get intense joy in my heart from my devotion to you, sometimes I feel a strong longing for a quiet, monastic life. Where does that longing come from, and if it has a negative origin, how can I best overcome it?
- It is telling you that you must go to a cave in the Himalayas in order to meditate and realise God. … One need not build a Taj Mahal in order to meditate every day; but it is not necessary to go to a cave...
- The Master's burden
- He would pray and meditate with his disciples but, after the meditation was over, he would entertain...