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- Lecturers in spirit
- Sri Chinmoy was born in Bengal but now lives in New York, where he conducts meditations twice weekly...
- Nichole's conversation with God
Then every day when you meditate before your Guru’s picture, try to feel that your Guru constantly...
- Question: How can I become a perfect disciple?
- One way is to meditate well for long hours. … We have to meditate for at least two hours at a stretch, without interruption. … If our meditation is sublime, we are bound to get the correct message from Above. … Our meditation has to be one-pointed. … Unfortunately, this kind of meditation is extremely difficult to have....
- Question: During my meditation there is a very strong sound and within that sound, there are thousands
- Sri Chinmoy: Here you have to know that this sound you hear is the sound of inner Divinity and inside this Divinity, all the time, Infinity is growing. The first sound is the Source, the cosmic sound. Inside that is the infinite manifestation of sound. The first sound is the cosmic vibration, the soundless sound. We call it...
- Question: When we meditate, to what extent do we represent and are we responsible for humanity and
- Sri Chinmoy: We are all seekers here, but unfortunately our level of consciousness is not the same. Each one has his own level of consciousness. If someone’s consciousness is large and illumined, then he feels that he is representing a large section of humanity. If someone has a very vast and fully illumined consciousness, he...
- Question: How can I start meditating in the heart right from the beginning without going through
- Sri Chinmoy: You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and...
- Question: In order to practise meditation with one Master, do you advise giving up all the other
- Sri Chinmoy: When practising spiritual disciplines under the guidance of a spiritual Master, it is always advisable for you to follow his path exclusively. You have to give up other paths once you accept his path. If you are satisfied with this Master and are still looking for another Master, you are making a mistake and are...
- Question: Once we reach a certain level in our meditation, how then can we go higher and deeper?
- Sri Chinmoy: Once we have reached a certain level of consciousness in our meditation, we have to feel...
- Do I understand correctly that activity and meditation form the essence of your teaching?
- Sri Chinmoy: Our philosophy does not negate either the outer life or the inner life. Most human beings negate the inner life. They feel that the inner life is not important as long as they can exist on earth. Again, there are a few who think that the outer life is not necessary. They feel that the best thing is to enter into...
- Question: How can we tune in to the particular quality that you are bringing down most in your meditation
- So, after you have seen a quality during your meditation, do not mentally say that it is power or delight...
- Question: During my meditation, there is a very strong sound and within that sound, there are thousands
- Sri Chinmoy: Here you have to know that this sound you hear is the sound of the inner Divinity, and inside this Divinity, all the time, Infinity is growing. The first sound is the Source, the cosmic sound. Inside that is the infinite manifestation of sound. The first sound is the cosmic vibration, Anahata we call it, the...
- Question: If undivine thoughts come while I am meditating, should I invoke peace or try to fight
- Sri Chinmoy: At that time you have to invoke light. If there is only one fly, we can try to cast it aside. But if there are many flies, how are we going to chase all of them? We have to remain silent. When undivine thoughts come, light is necessary, not peace. When the light illumines all the undivine thoughts, immediately you...
- Timur and the mendicant
One day, during his campaigns in India, Timur saw a religious mendicant praying and meditating most … When I meditate here, sometimes flies come and bother me. Can you stop them from bothering me?"...
- Scene 1
- (Points to Sarada Devi, who is meditating.) Your Naren is by no means capable of such achievements.
With all I shall get You: this is my life’s only aspiration, only meditation, only Goal.)...
- Question: How do you deal with guilt if you have been brought up with the feeling that God will punish you if you do wrong?
- Whenever we meditate we should feel that God is all Love. He is not going to punish us. … If we meditate daily, we are trying to be freed from our ignorance and limitations and it is this inner...
- Question: How can I best please the Supreme in my inner and outer life? I would like to go back to college and get a higher degree, but I don't know if I should.
If you see that the Supreme wants you to have success in the ordinary, human life, then you will meditate … If the Supreme wants you to meditate for your own realisation and at the same time help those who are...
- Going to Viet Nam
- But every day I used to meditate and pray to the Supreme to send His Protection to Viet Nam. … Nature changes only through prayer and meditation....
- Question: What should be the attitude of those who work at the United Nations?
Some of the members of the United Nations Meditation Group are conscious of this, but in spite of … But each member of the United Nations Meditation Group must feel that his job is a golden opportunity...
- Question: At our United Nations meetings, should we meditate on specific themes related to United
- Sri Chinmoy: It is advisable for seekers to meditate on divine qualities such as peace, love, light and … So if we pray and meditate on peace, light and bliss, then we will definitely be able to serve those...
- Question: Can an individual have a feeling of insecurity because of a feeling of separation from God?
We can feel that our source is God only when we aspire, pray and meditate. … When we do not aspire, when we do not pray and meditate, we are bound to feel that our source is something...
- Question: Why is darkness impermanent and light permanent?
This experience of Delight we get only when we meditate. … When we meditate, we get inner peace or peace of mind....
- Question: How can we more fully surrender to the Supreme?[^200]
- Similarly, if you keep the light and peace that you felt during your meditation inside your heart, nobody … So when you meditate, please feel that you have stored up a divine treasure trove inside your heart....
- Question: What is the purpose of the psychic being?
- For three weeks we get up at 6:00 and pray and meditate, but then we feel that our prayer has no result … Then our prayer-life ends, our meditation-life ends....
- Question: What are hostile forces in the form of thoughts? How can we know that we are being attacked by these hostile forces?
- Once you allow this hostile force to enter into you, your meditation will be ruined. … If your thoughts are in any way disturbing your meditation, that means they are undivine thoughts....
- Mr. Inoue: Where does your energy come from?
- Unless they are genuine seekers and God-lovers who pray and meditate, their talk about peace is nothing … So peace comes from prayer and meditation, not from outer talk....
- Question: Can you turn off all your inner vision faculties and just see the world as we mere mortals see it? Or do you constantly see all these other layers all at once?
- after I finish the concert, I try to give so much, so much, especially to people who are praying and meditating … They value, plus they create and develop, their own inner hunger to pray to God, to meditate on God....
- Question: Good morning, Sri Chinmoy. On behalf of myself and our big brother, Narada, I would like to thank you for blessing us with your presence. My question to you is this: what do we need to do as human beings to bring into our families and into our own lives the moral fibre that has been destroyed in the world?
We have to feel His Presence not only when we pray and meditate, but in our every action: when we … So let us pray and meditate to bring His divine Presence to the fore and let us be ready at every moment...
- Whenever you sing in a group[^9]
- Before you sing, the members of the group should come together and meditate for at least two or three … When I request you to sing “The Invocation” while I am walking meditatively at P.S. 86, for my first...
- 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...
- Question: How can one overcome destructive anger?
- Early in the morning at six o’clock you prayed or meditated for half an hour and at that time you gained … When you remember what you did at six o’clock, when you think of your meditation, you get again that...