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- Question: How can we know if we are really pleasing you or not?
- You think of God, you pray to God, you meditate on God, but you don't think of yourself as the chosen … So if you think of me and meditate on the Supreme in me, it is infinitely easier for you to realise the...
- There are some trustworthy people![^42]
Yesterday this lady came to meditate with me, with the hotel staff.
Some of the hotel workers meditated very well....
- Introduction[^14]
- Today Sri Chinmoy is the leader of 100 meditation centres around the world and for the past 28 years … he has been conducting twice-weekly meditations at United Nations headquarters in New York City for diplomats...
- Question: Is there such a thing as weather in the inner world that corresponds to the weather outside?[^2]
- This morning I did not pray to God, I did not meditate on God.”
If you have the inner happiness because you prayed and meditated, and you also receive material wealth...
- Question: Do you always sleep at night as you did before you reached cosmic consciousness?
- The body takes rest, but his meditation is extremely profound. … Even during his sleep he is one with the soul, he is observing and meditating and bringing down Light...
- Question: In our daily life are we to work to suppress our emotion? What is the nature of emotion as you see it? Is there any way we can control it?
If we meditate more on the positive side, that is to say on Light, then Light is going to descend … We know that when we meditate, we enter into the world of Joy and Delight....
- The physical aspect of life
- In the spiritual aspect — that is, prayer and meditation — I do it, I do it. … In my case, I do meditate for hours, and I am deeply involved not only in the inner world, but also in...
- 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....
- Question: Does any change take place in your body when the divine forces enter the physical?
- Many people have seen me as a small child when they have meditated with me. … One time in Ottawa at a public meditation my consciousness was so high that at first I did not try to...
- Question: Guru, what is more important: inspiration or imagination?
- We can meditate to be inspired. This is one way. Again, we can pray to be inspired. … The artist prayed and meditated and then got the inspiration and imagination to capture that Cosmic God … Suppose one is meditating and he is not able to dive deep within or go high, very high, but he continues … and continues meditating. … He was only thinking about them and meditating, meditating, meditating on those experiences....
- Psychic power and will-power[^10]
- 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 meditation on the blazing sun.]
We have meditated on the psychic power-consciousness by imagining the golden dawn inside the very...
- Question: My own spiritual background has taken me into different paths of meditation: Buddhism, … particular areas, but am I really splitting myself by consciously practising more than one type of meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: Spirituality is only one subject. It is not like history, geography, science and mathematics, for which you need different classes. It is only one subject, and for that it is advisable to walk along one path. The Goal is one and it is at one particular place. If we constantly change our roads, then our progress...
- Scene 1
- (Siddhartha is sitting under a tree in high meditation. Enter five ascetics.) … He is in deep meditation, in trance. Let us not disturb poor Siddhartha. May God bless him.
FIFTH ASCETIC: It is difficult also to pray to God, to meditate on Truth. … (Siddhartha meditates. He is having visions of life.
(Siddhartha meditates with tremendous determination....
- False unconditional surrender[^6]
- One evening the spiritual Master and his disciples all were in deep meditation when suddenly a disciple … entered the meditation room weeping and sobbing. … She disturbed everybody’s meditation. The Master most compassionately asked her what was wrong.
The Master remained silent, and Snigdha joined the meditation. … One young man stood up, grabbed Mahesh, and attempted to throw him out of the meditation room....
- Earthbound time and timeless time[^33]
- We can love time by meditating constantly on our life’s promise to God. … Immediately his disciples realised that it was time for them to meditate, so they entered into meditation … At the same hour a seeker of the infinite Truth enters into meditation, a thief does what he thinks best … They feel that God is pleased with them, and showers His choice blessings on them just because they meditate...
- The voice of silence[^19]
- But I wish to assure you that if you meditate with me for a few minutes before I speak, if you can dive … dive deep within for a few minutes, then either you will hear the Voice of Silence or your prayer and meditation … When we pray, when we meditate, we have to do something quite specific. … One way is to make our concentration, meditation and contemplation as dynamic as possible.
Another way to hear the Voice of Silence is to feel, the moment you enter into your meditation or...
- Contemplation[^7]
- aspiration-heart and my dedication-life sleeplessly need three invaluable realities: concentration, meditation … Meditation is peace. Contemplation is bliss.
There are various ways to acquire concentration-power, meditation-peace and contemplation-bliss.
If I want to have peace, then I shall meditate on a very large reality. … I shall meditate on the vast sky, and the vastness of the sky will inundate my inner being with peace...
- A painter of the spirit
- beauty and truth — concepts that have become outmoded in a post-modern world, that find their genesis in meditation … For over 40 years he has explored the variety of meditative experience, always striving to reach higher … In meditation, he feels, in the heart of silence, is formed the nexus of all other activity. … He has given numerous concerts, lectures and meditations in the US and several other countries, and since … 1970 has conducted twice-weekly peace meditation sessions at the UN and, recently, a weekly session...
- Earth-bound time and timeless time
- We can love time by meditating constantly on our life’s promise to God. … Immediately his disciples realised that it was time for them to meditate, so they entered into meditation … At the same hour a seeker of the infinite Truth enters into meditation, a thief does what he thinks best … They feel that God is pleased with them, and showers His choice blessings upon them just because they meditate...
- Realisation
There are three brothers who help us considerably in our life of aspiration: concentration, meditation
What is meditation? … Meditation is the act of emptying our inner vessel and filling it with God’s Light and Delight.
When we meditate, we try to grow in silence; we try to become receptive so that the Lord Supreme can … Meditation tells us, “The Goal is inside you. In perfect silence you will discover your Goal.”...
- Contemplation[^92]
- aspiration-heart and my dedication-life sleeplessly need three invaluable realities: concentration, meditation … Meditation is peace. Contemplation is bliss.
There are various ways to acquire concentration-power, meditation-peace and contemplation-bliss.
If I want to have peace, then I shall meditate on a very large reality. … I shall meditate on the vast sky and the vastness of the sky will inundate my inner being with peace....
- Realisation[^4]
There are three brothers who help us considerably in our life of aspiration: concentration, meditation
What is meditation? … Meditation is the act of emptying our inner vessel and filling it with God’s Light and Delight.
When we meditate we try to grow in silence; we try to become receptive so that the Lord Supreme can … Meditation tells us, “The Goal is inside you. In perfect silence you will discover your Goal.”...
- The Master's aura
One evening, the disciples were gathered around him for meditation. … The Master said, "My sweet children, now we have had a most wonderful meditation.
"First, you have to feel during your meditation that we are not the body, not the vital, not the mind … Did any of you see any light or colour around me today, while you were meditating?" … Of course, the success of your meditation depends on the amount of faith you have in my inner guidance...
- Scene 1
- (Siddhartha is sitting under a tree in high meditation. Enter five ascetics.) … He is in deep meditation, in trance. Let us not disturb poor Siddhartha. May God bless him.
FIFTH ASCETIC: It is difficult also to pray to God, to meditate on Truth. … (Siddhartha meditates. He is having visions of life.
(Siddhartha meditates with tremendous determination....
- World Gratitude Day Award
- 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...
- Scene 1
- You don’t know how to pray or meditate. … This place is for grown-ups like me, who know how to meditate and pray.
BOY: Yes, but our Lord is teaching me how to pray and meditate. … I shall teach him songs; I shall teach him to pray; I shall teach him how to meditate....
- Not Krishna, but you, Master
- There was once a great Yogi who used to meditate twelve to fourteen hours a day, in spite of the fact … He said, “Even if you can’t pray and meditate regularly, do it whenever you have difficulty. … At least at that time you can pray and meditate. … And if you do not think of Him, pray to Him, meditate on Him, when you are in danger or difficulty, then...
- Self-transcendence
- Since most of us are beginners in the spiritual life, we try to meditate for five minutes, ten minutes … If we can meditate for an hour a day, we try to extend the effects of this meditation throughout the … So also our soulful prayer and meditation, even if it only lasts half an hour, projects our aspiring...
- Giving up old friends
- Now you are awake; you are ready to pray and meditate. … It is time to meditate.” … Your peace is meditation and prayer; his peace is lifeless sleep. … Your peace comes from conscious meditation, and his comes from unconsciousness and inertia....
- Obedience or oneness
- I am telling you that, to me, this amusement, this achievement of yours, is as good as your highest meditation … This is something which you cannot accomplish during your most soulful, powerful meditation. … You have to please the teacher, either by meditating very soulfully or by offering the teacher your soulful … They could have come here and spent a few hours meditating with us; but no, they don't do it....