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- Greeting
- Also, I hold special meditations and prayers twice a week at the United Nations and once a month I give...
- Question: Is it true that anybody can become a yogi if they really try? [^4]
- (4): A small group-meditation was held on 8 August 1966 at the summer home of Mr....
- Mu Magazine: During the performance when you actually meditate, what do you think about?
- Sri Chinmoy: Inside my mind there is nothing, absolutely nothing. I don't think of anything. At that time I enter into the world of vastness. There I clearly see and feel a sea of peace. I bring this peace down into the hearts of all those who are kind enough to come and listen...
- Are they meditating all the time?
- And those absent-minded people who are aspiring are not absent-minded because of their meditation....
- Sometimes when I meditate I imagine what is going on in the inner worlds.
- Sri Chinmoy: It is good to imagine, but it has to be something that is inside the heart. After we imagine something, it becomes a reality in the heart. Imagination itself is reality. Feeling also is reality, but in feeling we cannot show the reality. But when we realise the reality, at that time we become...
- Donna Halper: So whether you call God by the name Allah or Buddha or Vishnu or whatever, meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: It is only a name. A child will call his father 'Daddy', but the same man is called by a different name when he goes to the office. It is like water. You call it 'water' in English, but a French person will call it 'l'eau', and a Bengali will call it 'jal'. It is the same thing, only called by...
- Question: Is there one divine quality which encompasses all the rest or does a seeker have to meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: For a seeker, one quality is enough in his own life and that is gratitude. And in God’s Life one quality is also enough, and that is God’s Compassion. God’s Compassion encompasses all His divine qualities, and the seeker’s gratitude encompasses all his divine qualities. So if one wants to feel the presence of all...
- Are they meditating all the time?
- And those absent-minded people who are aspiring are not absent-minded because of their meditation....
- Question: I read something in one of your books about the control of breath in meditation.
- But if you want to learn a very simple way of controlled breathing which will help you in your meditation...
- Question: As I understand it, meditation requires a certain amount of time.
- Sri Chinmoy: How many hours do we have at our disposal? Twenty-four hours. Do we work for twenty-four hours? Do we sleep for twenty-four hours? Do we eat for twenty-four hours? No, we do quite a few things during these twenty-four hours. We can do all kinds of things during the day. We can mix with our friends, eat, go to...
- Question: Are the little sporadic experiences that we have during meditation part of realisation,
- Sri Chinmoy: In a sense each experience is taking you to realisation; each experience is a step towards realisation. But again, if instead of walking slowly, one has the capacity to run very fast, then one need not have thousands or millions of experiences before realising God. Each experience certainly helps us; it gives us...
- Question: Do you believe that activity and meditation contradict one another or do you feel they
- Sri Chinmoy: The inner life and the outer life go hand in hand. Many 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 some who think that the outer life is not necessary. They feel that since the outer life is so painful and full of...
- Question: We would like to organise a seminar on meditation, but I have been very slow in learning
- Sri Chinmoy: Why do you have to kill yourself learning Thai when someone can translate for you? I have become a very, very, very close friend of President Gorbachev. I thought of studying Russian, but God knows how long it would take me to learn it. And he is not going to learn English. But our friendship can still grow and...
- King Fatul[^20]
- I am giving up the throne and going into the forest to pray and meditate the rest of my life. … I will also pray and meditate.” … Do you think that I don’t have the capacity to pray and meditate like my brother?” … In a few incarnations you will start to pray and meditate.” … Here I will pray and meditate with my brother.”...
- Question: It appears to me from the short time I've been meditating with you that the love that comes … It seems to depend on whether I meditate and aspire properly or not, and whether I am appreciating it
- Sri Chinmoy: Unfortunately, here you are making a mistake. Divine Love is not conditional; it does not depend on what you do. The reason you feel this way is because you do not empty your vessel. That is why you feel that love is conditional. When you empty your inner vessel, you will see that love is flowing through you, and...
- The secret of joy[^92]
- But in order to pray to God, meditate on God and love God, we need inspiration. … If we meditate on the picture of a spiritual Master, we get a kind of inspiration which is much more … If we meditate on a picture of the Christ, Sri Krishna, the Buddha or other spiritual Masters in whom … we have faith, then naturally we shall get infinitely more inspiration than if we meditate on a flower … If we are in the heart-room, let us pray and meditate to enter into the soul’s room....
- Interview — New Jersey Talking[^7]
- They wanted me to offer a meditation at the beginning of the programme and then offer roses to all the … At the age of four I started praying, and when I was seven years old I started praying and meditating … Since then, I have been offering prayers and meditations at the United Nations and I have offered over
I feel that world peace can come into being on the strength of our prayer and meditation. … It is my personal opinion and inmost conviction that it is through prayer and meditation that we shall...
- Question: Can you define what you mean by a saint?
- The sages pray and meditate a great deal, more than the saints. … A yogi prays and meditates twenty-four hours a day. … But yogis pray and meditate only to remain in the consciousness of God.
Avatars pray and meditate, like yogis, but they have bullet speed. … all kinds of things, while someone in Germany or Switzerland will be thinking, “Oh, perhaps Guru is meditating...
- The secret of joy[^4]
- But in order to pray to God, meditate on God and love God, we need inspiration. … If we meditate on the picture of a Master, we get a kind of inspiration which is much more powerful than … If we meditate on a picture of the Christ, Sri Krishna, the Buddha or other spiritual Masters in whom … we have faith, then naturally we shall get infinitely more inspiration than if we meditate on a flower … If we are in the heart-room, let us pray and meditate to enter into the soul’s room....
- Humility and unworthiness
- According to their inner capacity, illumination and meditation, the parents have brought their children … We may not see God face-to-face, but His inner Presence compels us to meditate on Him. … It is not through humiliation, but through illumination, meditation, concern and divinely fulfilling...
- Introduction and award presentation[^8]
- I was struck by the very deep meditation out of which the music emerged.
Sri Chinmoy is a world-renowned meditation teacher and peace activist, and we will be honouring him … It seems that Sri Chinmoy and Secretary-General U Thant were close friends, sharing a love of meditation...
- Our peace is within
- To hope to achieve peace without spirituality or meditation is to expect water in the desert. … devotion even for five minutes is more important than to spend long hours in carefree and easy-going meditation … If sin has the power to make us weep, meditation has undoubtedly the power to give us joy, to endow us...
- The world's imperfections
- What is worse, we do not meditate at all. … Most people don’t have five minutes a day to meditate on God. … Days will run into weeks and weeks into months, and they have not meditated even for five minutes....
- Our peace is within
- To hope to achieve peace without spirituality or meditation is to expect water in the desert. … devotion even for five minutes is more important than to spend long hours in carefree and easy-going meditation … If sin has the power to make us weep, meditation has undoubtedly the power to give us joy, to endow us...
- Question: If one was meditating in his past incarnation and made good progress, will he get a head
- Sri Chinmoy: If somebody was really sincere in his spiritual life in his past incarnation, then in this life he will start his spiritual life at a young age. He will start with his spiritual life when he is ten or twelve or sixteen years old. But it may happen that the child is brought up in an unfavourable environment. So even...
- Question: When we are meditating, if we are aware of idle thoughts and inconscience in the mind,
- Sri Chinmoy: If it is a good thought, keep it; if it is a bad thought, discard it. If you have a good thought, feel that you are an express train racing on and on, or a bird flying up. If you have a divine idea, just run with it to your destination. But if wrong, false, undivine thoughts come, do not stay with them. Please...
- Question: When meditating, inside I feel very strong and outside I feel very soft.
- Sri Chinmoy: That is wonderful. You feel strong inside because you are bringing down divine Peace, Bliss and Light into you. The more you consciously and devotedly bring down these divine forces from above, the stronger you become inwardly. You will feel that these things from above are helping you to expand your...
- Question: When I am meditating, I feel my head expanding and I feel that something is pounding the
- Sri Chinmoy: Two seemingly contradictory things are happening. On the one hand, you say that your head is expanding; this is the purified consciousness that is expanding in your mind. On the other hand, your impure thoughts, impure consciousness, want to pull down Light from above by force and when they do so, they feel a heavy...
- Question: Do you think diplomats gain anything from these prayer and meditation meetings that is
- Sri Chinmoy: I do hope that they get peace of mind. The delegates are dealing with the world problems, so what they need first and foremost is peace of mind. When they come and pray with us and become one with us, they do feel peace of mind. Then, when they go back to their respective offices, they can solve the problems that...
- Question: Is there one divine quality which encompasses all the rest or does a seeker have to meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: For a seeker one quality is enough, and that quality is gratitude. And in God’s Life one quality is also enough, and that quality is Compassion. Inside your gratitude you can feel the presence of all your divine qualities, and inside God’s Compassion you can easily feel all the divine qualities of God. If you want...