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- Question: Are you part of a particular organised religious body, and is the meditation you teach
- Sri Chinmoy: I appreciate and admire all religions, and my teachings embody the quintessence of all religions. But I do not belong to any particular religion. I was born a Hindu; therefore, I know the ins and outs of the Hindu religion. But I do not practise Hinduism or any other specific religion. My religion is to love God...
- Question: When you meditate for people can you see their souls and can you lift them to a higher
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, I can do it. It is the easiest thing possible to see the soul and lift it up, because a real spiritual Master is he who has inseparable oneness with the Highest. On the strength of this oneness, he can have free access to...
- Question: When a Master brings down more light, peace and bliss than those meditating with him can
- Sri Chinmoy: It is not all lost. It is scattered over the earth. It enters into the earth-atmosphere and becomes the earth’s possession. When spiritual Masters bring down divine qualities from above, Mother Earth embodies them as her own. Then, when someone in the street or elsewhere aspires, he will get this peace and light...
- Question: When you tell us to learn by heart twenty meditations, are you not establishing a kind
- Sri Chinmoy: The world is full of competition. In the ordinary life, we are constantly competing. I am competing with you; you are competing with me. All the time, we are competing. But this competition must not take place in the spiritual life. In the inner life, the spiritual world, there is no competition. It is only you and...
- Question: When I am meditating, I feel my head expanding and I feel that something is pounding the
- Sri Chinmoy: You get pressure on your head? 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, the impure thoughts, the impure consciousness wants to pull down Light from above by force....
- 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 bring down divine Peace, Bliss and Light into you. The more you consciously and devotedly bring down from above these divine forces, the stronger you become inwardly. You will feel that these things from above are helping you to expand your consciousness. Now...
- The third eye[^1]
- I wish to give a very short talk on the third eye; then we shall most soulfully concentrate, meditate
We pray and meditate with the hope that one day we shall enter into trance, for each seeker feels
Our aim, our goal, is to please the Absolute; therefore, we shall pray and meditate. … In this spot we shall concentrate, meditate and contemplate.
Now let us meditate on the third eye....
- Conscience[^6]
- Then we have to learn how to meditate. Finally, we have to learn how to contemplate.
The next step is meditation. … In meditation the first thing we do is to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. … When we meditate, we become the listener and God becomes the talker. … As we became expert in concentration, we began meditation....
- Trishanku
- Now, allow us to meditate peacefully.”
Then one of Vashishtha’s sons cursed Trishanku. … I shall meditate and get more occult power and spiritual power to fight against them.”
Vishwamitra meditated for many, many years, and then he mustered all his occult power and spiritual … Then again I will have to meditate for many years to get occult power and spiritual power to help him...
- No liberation for the idle
- The disciple was extremely devoted to his Master, and he meditated for hours and hours every day.
In spite of all this, the disciple continued praying, meditating, and getting high experiences. … "Oh Master, I have been meditating most sincerely and devotedly for years and years, every day for six … I have been meditating for hours and hours daily since I came to you....
- The higher worlds[^5]
- When we concentrate, when we meditate, when we contemplate, we enter into these higher worlds. … When we meditate soulfully, we enter into the Room Divine. … When we go deep within, when we meditate for a couple of hours, if it is most soulful and if the meditation...
- Man and God
- Next in the descending line is meditation. Lower is the seat for prayers and invocations. … It is equally true that the volcano of the seeker's concentration and the hydrogen bomb of his meditation
During meditation we have to be very careful. … During meditation everything is intense and, if we indulge in evil thoughts, the effects become more...
- Inseparable oneness knows no curiosity
He spoke to the disciple only for a couple of minutes and then he said, "Let us stand here and meditate
The Master and the disciple meditated but the husband did not see what was going on because they were … The Master said something very soulful for a couple of minutes to the husband and then said, "Let us meditate … They meditated, and then the Master and the husband went back to the wife....
- The higher worlds[^40]
- When we concentrate, when we meditate, when we contemplate, we enter into these higher worlds. … When we meditate soulfully, we enter into the room divine. … When we go deep within, when we meditate for a couple of hours, if our meditation is most soulful and...
- Spiritual purity[^98]
- We discover peace through our constant prayer and meditation.
In the spiritual life, if we can pray well, if we can meditate well, then peace of mind, light and … We can also derive abundant purity from our concentration, meditation and contemplation. … If you can repeat the name of God constantly during your prayer and meditation, automatically the sincerity...
- God's dream-boat and man's life-boat [^1]
Man’s Life-Boat: I concentrate, I meditate, I contemplate. What else is left? … divine duties must be drawn up by us, in which top priority must, by all manner of means, be given to meditation … Let us meditate. Our life-breath let us not waste. … Let us work, let us meditate, for our dedicated life-activities are unmistakably the supernal glories...
- My wrestling experiences[^11]
- I was meditating and singing and doing all kinds of things.
One evening I wanted to go and meditate in a park in front of the Governor’s palace. … I meditated and he meditated. Then we entered into conversation....
- Purity in the physical is indispensable
The Master began to meditate with his disciples as he often did before a function began. … But after a few minutes the Master stopped meditating and looked very sad.
"What is the matter?"
The Master again entered into meditation. … You know that to receive prasad from the Master is the highest meditation....
- Meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- following remarks:]
It is a great privilege for me and for the members of Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation … most cardinal fact about our life is the spiritual — that encounter with God in prayer, in worship, in meditation
With our deepest appreciation, admiration and gratitude, Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at
Sri Chinmoy (presenting two of his books, A Garland of Nation-Souls and My Meditation-Service at the...
- Spiritual purity[^11]
- We discover peace through our constant prayer and meditation.
In the spiritual life, if we can pray well, if we can meditate well, then peace of mind, light and … We can also derive abundant purity from our concentration, meditation and contemplation. … If you can repeat the name of God constantly during your prayer and meditation, automatically the sincerity...
- The higher worlds[^10]
- When we concentrate, when we meditate, when we contemplate, we enter into these higher worlds. … When we meditate soulfully, we enter into the Room Divine. … When we go deep within, when we meditate for a couple of hours, if it is most soulful and if the meditation...
- The higher worlds[^2]
- When we concentrate, when we meditate, when we contemplate, we enter into these higher worlds. … When we meditate soulfully, we enter into the Room divine. … When we go deep within, when we meditate for a couple of hours, if it is most soulful and if the meditation...
- Trishanku
- Now allow us to meditate peacefully.” Then one of Vashishtha’s sons cursed Trishanku. … I shall meditate and get more occult power and spiritual power to fight against them.”
Vishwamitra meditated for many, many years and mustered all his occult power and spiritual power. … Then again I will have to meditate for many years to get occult power and spiritual power to help him...
- God's Dream-Boat and man's life-boat[^3]
Man's Life-Boat: I concentrate, I meditate and contemplate. What else is left? … divine duties must be drawn up for us, in which top priority must, by all manner of means, be given to meditation … Let us meditate. Our life-breath let us not waste. … Let us work, let us meditate, for our dedicated life-activities are unmistakably the supernal glories...
- Greeting
- This is also, in one sense, a kind of meditation.
I am very happy today....
- Introduction[^7]
- During meetings of the United Nations Meditation Group, Sri Chinmoy gave these lectures on great men...
- Question: Why has technology progressed so much in the past fifty years?
- When all the world's comforts are there, then instead of meditating and praying, we sleep....
- Question: There are many books on reincarnation on the market that you can buy, but I was wondering whether reincarnation is something that can be understood by the intellect?
- But if somebody tells you that in your past incarnation you cried for God and meditated, but did not...
- Record of peace activities
- Interview with Nippon Hoso Kyokai (National Broadcasting Association), Fukuyama
January 5, 1986 — Peace Meditation...
- Part I — Salutation to Japan[^1]
When we think of Japan, when we pray for Japan, when we meditate on Japan, we see a very, very special...