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- Pray for protection
- Sometimes you meditate one day and then for ten or fifteen days you don't meditate. … Meditation and prayer are like muscles....
- Pray for protection
- Sometimes you meditate one day, and then for ten or fifteen days you don’t meditate. … Meditation and prayer are just like muscles....
- The personal God
When the beginner meditates early in the morning, he should meditate on the Feet of the personal Supreme … This form of meditation can be practised by any aspirant who is trying to go beyond his limited existence...
- Peace, happiness and freedom[^104]
- We must pray and meditate regularly in order to have a free access to this Pilot Supreme. … And this surrender-song we can learn only through our soulful prayers and prayerful meditations. … Without a prayerful life and soulful meditation, no one can acquire peace....
- The Gayatri Mantra
- p>Aum bhur bhuvah svahTat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dhimahiDhiyo yo nah pracodayat
> We meditate
A seeker of the Infinite Truth must meditate on the Gayatri Mantra. … But a genuine seeker can reach the Goal solely by meditating on the Gayatri Mantra....
- Question: There is a segment of the population that has a high crime rate, a high infant mortality rate, a low standard of education and a high death rate: the black community. What can you say to someone who lives in Brownsville or Harlem and feels he cannot expose his heart without being taken advantage of?
- We boast, “Oh, I prayed and meditated in the morning.” But what kind of prayer was it? … What kind of meditation did we have? … If we had soulfully prayed and meditated for protection, we would not have been in that unfortunate place...
- Question: I've found in my search for God that He is all around me and within me. The unity with Him is becoming very understandable. What is puzzling me is the separation. What is the sense of separation?
That is why inwardly we try to remain in constant prayer or meditation. … After our meditation, we come out of the heart and enter into the mind, or we enter into the vital. … when we come out into the world, if we can bring with us the divinity that we saw and felt during our meditation...
- The Upanishads "The Gayatri Mantra"[^2]
- Om bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tát savitúr váreṇyaṃ
bhárgo devásya dhīmahi dhíyo yó naḥ prachodáyāt
We meditate
A seeker of the infinite Truth must meditate on the Gayatri Mantra. … But a genuine seeker can and does reach the end solely by meditating on the Gayatri....
- Question: Is there any danger in going off to a cave to meditate and trying to realise God in seclusion
- Sri Chinmoy: Some people do enter into seclusion in order to realise God. They do not want to see God in humanity; they only want to see God Above. They ignore and negate the world. They practise arduous spiritual disciplines all alone. Eventually they may realise God, the God who is in seclusion, but if their spiritual...
- >Question: What is the best way to keep extraneous thoughts out of your mind when you are trying to meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: There are two kinds of thoughts: good thoughts and bad thoughts. One kind is healthy and one kind is unhealthy. Unhealthy thoughts, undivine thoughts, are our enemies, whereas good thoughts, divine thoughts, are our friends. We are standing at the door to our house and somebody is knocking at the door. We have to...
- Is it love, peace, devotion, sentiment, meditation and religious practice? What more?
- Sri Chinmoy: To me the path of the heart means divine love, divine devotion and divine surrender. Human love means to bind and be bound. Human devotion is nothing other than attachment. Human surrender is like the forced surrender of a slave to the master. But divine love means to love God in the way God wants to be loved....
- Question: I am wondering about the advisability of a very small Centre having public meditations
- Sri Chinmoy: If you know that what you are doing is the right thing, you will do it, in spite of the fact that you have failed ten times. If you are doing the right thing, then you can do it even two hundred times without achieving success. When I was trying to lift 300 pounds, I knew I was doing the right thing. After two...
- She has begun to meditate on your picture and she feels great fear.
- Sri Chinmoy: There is no fear. It is only a matter of whether she is ready to give up certain things. Fear is not of the Real, but of giving up something. Very often people say they are frightened to death of my picture. But it is not my picture; only inwardly they are unwilling to give up their old habits, their old life. They...
- Question: In meditation I experienced myself flying in a limitless expanse above a broad ocean.
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- Question: Sometimes you walk back and forth for a while before a meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: At that time I often feel that you are all pilgrims and I am the leader. We are all enjoying the pilgrimage. I am walking along Eternity's Road, and you are all following me. On the outer plane, you are all waiting in place for my blessings, but actually I see your souls following me while I...
- Question: What is the best way to keep extraneous thoughts out of your mind when you are trying to meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: There are two kinds of thoughts: good thoughts and bad thoughts. One kind is healthy and one kind is unhealthy. Unhealthy thoughts, undivine thoughts, are our enemies, whereas good thoughts, divine thoughts, are our friends. We are standing at the door to our house and somebody is knocking at the door. We have to...
- Question: Sometimes you walk back and forth for a while before a meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: At that time I often feel that you are all pilgrims and I am the leader. We are all enjoying the pilgrimage. I am walking along Eternity's Road, and you are all following me. On the outer plane, you are all waiting in place for my blessings, but actually I see your souls following me while I...
- Who cares whether they believe in God?[^44]
- You have to go back, and you have to teach family people how to pray and meditate. … He was very seriously meditating....
- Doubt, faith and aspiration
- If we concentrate and meditate soulfully and sincerely each morning, then doubt cannot play its destructive … By meditating regularly and devotedly we can protect ourselves from the entrance of doubt....
- Following are excerpts from some of the letters and messages sent on the occasion of Sri Chinmoy's fiftieth Peace Concert.
- The entire world should he extremely grateful to Sri Chinmoy, head of the Meditation Group at the United … interdenominational approach, have been associated with the United Nations, serving as a leader of a meditation...
- Celebrating Olga's Birthday
- First we shall meditate and play soulful music in honour of your birthday. … I shall play and all of you will meditate....
- Question: How can we treat our brothers and sisters with a more spiritually encompassing heart?
- Each day we pray and meditate we are learning from the Supreme. … When we pray and meditate, we gain something....
- Question: Our birthday is the happiest day of our life during the year. How can we make every other day until the next birthday just as happy?
- Previously even for one minute you could not meditate. … Now perhaps you are able to meditate for five minutes. The key is thought-control....
- The theft of the Syamantak diamond[^7]
- His uncle, Akrura, had been meditating when all of a sudden somebody had dropped this diamond on his … When Krishna came, he found the diamond on Akrura’s lap while Akrura was still in deep meditation....
- King Yayati goes to Heaven[^1]
- When they descended to earth, they started praying and meditating very soulfully. … Just through his meditation power he had developed the capacity to leave his body and go back to Heaven...
- Question: I would like to know how one can control self-destructive behaviour which gets in the way of meditation
- only try to build a new life — a better, more illumining, more fulfilling life — through prayer and meditation … Similarly, if we do not aspire, if we do not pray and meditate, then our heart-room remains dark and...
- I want justice-light
- Early in the morning Ramdas was meditating in his garden when he saw a young man. … could not know, that the young boy carried very impure vibrations which were affecting Kathiya Baba’s meditation...
- Service
- Although meditation and service constitute totally different approaches in the field of spirituality, … work and dedicated service are nothing short of pure meditation....
- Question: I have been told that I am in the process of developing psychic powers. Should I continue visiting spiritualistic centres with this point in mind?
- because it will be developed in you automatically when all your centres are opened during your deep meditation … To achieve this meditation, you have to go to a God-realised spiritual Master who can teach you individually...
- Question: How can we treat our brothers and sisters with a more spiritually encompassing heart?
- Each day that we pray and meditate, we are learning more from the Supreme. … When we pray and meditate, we gain something....