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Interviewer: So in a sense your concentration and your meditation are going to help you lift this
Sri Chinmoy: Yes, if I can lift this elephant, I will give 100 per cent credit to the Grace of my Lord Supreme, for I know that my physical strength alone is not enough. When I stand in front of a world champion — Mr Olympia or Mr Universe — I see how small my...
From the book Aspiration-body, illumination-soul, part 1
Question: How can one contact one's dear ones in the other world?
If he offers his message to God with his heart of prayer and his heart of meditation, God can easily … The heart that wants to meditate immediately becomes one with God's Light. … If we contact God's Light and God's Compassion, then without fail our prayer, our meditation will reach … If we cannot pray or meditate, if we do not care for a spiritual Master and have very little or no faith...
From the book Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Question: How can one contact one's dear ones in the other world?
If he offers his message to God with his heart of prayer and his heart of meditation, God can easily … The heart that wants to meditate immediately becomes one with God’s Light. … If we contact God’s Light and God’s Compassion, then without fail our prayer, our meditation will reach

If we cannot pray or meditate, if we do not care for a spiritual Master and have very little or no...

From the book Astrology, the supernatural and the Beyond
The desperate seeker[^6]
I have never meditated very much. I always felt that mental activity was more fulfilling. … My part is to pray and meditate and it is God's part to grant me realisation when He feels the time is … You are responsible only for your prayer and meditation and you give the responsibility for the result … God has only asked you to pray and meditate; He has not set a time for you to come and visit Him....
From the book Is God really partial?
The Master's presence
When you meditate you are bound to feel my presence, because at that time you have entered into me and … During meditation you can expand your physical consciousness in the same way as you are expanding your … When you are not meditating, often you are in the mind, you are in the vital or you are in the physical … If you can establish this kind of constant inner meditation in your life of aspiration, then our inner...
From the book Surrender and realisation
Conversation with Mr. Vanasin Vongbhun
Similarly, in our spiritual life we start with prayer and then we enter into meditation. … children spiritual instruction, my humble advice to you is to start with prayer and then to enter into meditation … Then, when they begin meditating, they have to feel that the Lord Buddha is talking to them. … When they are praying, they are talking to the Lord Buddha, and when they are meditating, they are listening...
From the book Lord Buddha's Compassion-Hand
But I find that when I follow this philosophy my meditation as absolutely rotten. … How can vital enjoyment and meditation go together?
Sri Chinmoy: You must ask your Guru to help you solve this problem. Perhaps you do not understand what he meant by enjoyment. You should write to him or ask some spiritual brother of yours in whom you have faith, what his philosophy actually says concerning vital enjoyment. Since you are his disciple you should follow his path...
From the book Purity-river wins
Kuznetsov: In the old days the monks used to pray and meditate, and they would get occult powers. … They cared only to please God with their prayers and meditations.
Sri Chinmoy: In our case also, we want to have what God is, not what God has. With our prayers we try to make God happy and to please God the Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient. We do not ask God, “Give me this power or that power.” But if we please God, we will get everything that He has in the same way that a child, when...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 28
Question: Most disciples fold their hands when you are meditating and looking at them. … But sometimes when I am meditating with you this doesn't come naturally.
In some instances you may even have a better meditation when I am looking at someone else than when I...
From the book The hour of meditation
Scene 2
(The five ascetics are meditating. Enter the Buddha.)...
From the book Mother, give me the Light of Knowledge
Question: Do disciples suffer when they get undivine forces from other disciples?
Sometimes when I am meditating, I see how the disciples are fighting in the vital world....
From the book Ego and self-complacency
Peace

When a spiritual Master meditates with a group of seekers, several show that they are restless....

From the book Illumination-Fruits
Interviewer: What made you decide to leave India and come to the United States?
Does the thought come in meditation or is it a vision, or what? Sri Chinmoy: It is not a thought....
From the book The doubt-world
Interviewer: Suppose your heart judges that I am a bad fellow from my vibrations, and suppose you are wrong?
They pray and meditate and they are constantly knocking at the Father’s door. “Father, guide me....
From the book The doubt-world
Question: Can you tell me how I can feel my soul?
To feel the presence of the soul you have to meditate for a couple of years....
From the book The soul and the process of reincarnation
When you go very high
After coming down from the highest meditation, I completely forgot my name....
From the book I thank You
Question: I have an experience at some of your lectures which I never am aware of at your other talks. I have a feeling that I am falling asleep, yet I hear what you are saying. I try very hard to keep awake but it almost seems an impossibility. Could you explain whether I am doing something wrong?
which illumines the darkness that you faced or the ignorance that you cherished before you entered into meditation...
From the book Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Question: What should our attitude be in regard to the competitive spirit?
If I meditate once in a blue moon, who is going to see or feel the difference?"...
From the book Four intimate friends: insincerity, impurity, doubt and self-indulgence
Time for prayer
There is a time when we should pray instead of meditating. It is when the Supreme asks us to pray....
From the book Prayer-world, mantra-world and japa-world
Question: How can we best develop the capacity to be able to feel your presence inside our heart as if we are in your physical presence?
It could be the tennis court or the meditation hall or somewhere else....
From the book My Heart-Melody
Question: On the birthdays of disciples, do you give a special gift on the inner plane which we are not aware of?
Again, if some individuals are praying and meditating sincerely, then every day they get special blessings...
From the book The soul's special promise, part 2
Why?[^8]

“My Lord, I do not meditate on the world much. Why?...

From the book Wisdom-waves in New York, part 2
A heart of compassion
Troilanga Swami and one of his dear disciples were meditating together on the bank of the Ganges....
From the book India and her miracle-feast: come and enjoy yourself, part 1
On the first meeting with Secretary-General U Thant[^3]
During a meeting of the United Nations Meditation Group on 14 May 1976, various persons offered reminiscences...
From the book U Thant: Divinity's Smile, Humanity's Cry
Man and God
To commune with God, man has his silent meditation. God has His urgent Peace to commune with man....
From the book Songs of the Soul
Question: Why don't I wake up in the morning?
If you want your old friend, then you cannot expect to get up early in the morning to meditate....
From the book Ten divine secrets
here at the Dag Hammarskjold lectures which I never am aware of at your other talks or at the Tuesday meditation
which illumines the darkness that you faced or the ignorance that you cherished before you entered into meditation...
From the book Flame-Waves, part 1
Question: While meditating I sometimes feel that my body is moving rhythmically, but when I open
If you feel that you are flying while you are meditating, you don't have to manifest this movement in...
From the book Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Question: Is there something that we can consciously do or practise to cultivate humility?[^186]
Sri Chinmoy: You can meditate on a tree....
From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
Question: Can you define the soul?[^217]
This truth can be seen, felt and realised when we meditate....
From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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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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