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- Question: Can we transcend our religion for a more vast spirituality?[^246]
- Religion will say that truth is somewhere else, and only if we pray and meditate will we one day see...
- Question: We are supposed to become like God. "You shall be like God," the Bible says. And the New Testament states, "Be perfect like your Father in Heaven." You have also written, "The Supreme will be satisfied with me only when I become like Him, another God, because He wants me to become His companion, not His slave." How much of a metaphor are these sayings, and how far can they be taken word for word?
- But if an ordinary person who does not pray and meditate or lead a spiritual life says this, nobody will...
- Question: You have been able to predict many events, such as Carl Lewis' victory at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. How do you obtain these premonitions or visions of the future? Do you search for them? Do you always feel the need to communicate your findings?
- Before the finals for the 200 metres of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, I met with Carl Lewis and we meditated...
- Question: Sometimes when I play tennis badly I get very, very frustrated and when I'm playing well I get so much joy. Is there some way I can be more consistent instead of playing badly one day and playing well the next?
What you have to do for a few minutes is pray and meditate with the idea, "By Your Grace, O my Supreme...
- Question: How can I tell if I really want God? And how do I know whether I am hearing God's Voice or the voice of the devil?
- Then the time comes when you reap the fruits of your prayer, concentration and meditation....
- Mahavira's supreme silence
- It was his practice to get up at three o'clock in the morning and roam from place to place meditating...
- Sri Chinmoy's memorial service for Mother Teresa
- Aspiration-Ground
Jamaica, Queens, New York
Programme
Sri Chinmoy offers a silent prayer and meditation...
- Question: How can I deal with the sorrow I feel from having compassion for others?
- So let us be more careful in our prayers and meditations....
- "The statue embodies the most powerful peace you can ever imagine or feel."
- And the only way we are going to do it is through prayer and meditation....
- Question: My son is not doing at all well. I am simply at a loss how to help him.
- So this change will take place from your meditation with his heart at night....
- Daibel Faye: Well, it is quite refreshing to hear you go through all the different things that you do. Apparently you travel a lot, and yet you can manage to write all these books, to learn all these instruments and to practise them. It seems that you do not make a distinction between your private and professional life.
- Mine is the life of prayer and meditation....
- Daibel Faye: Even though it is by God's Grace that you lifted all that weight, indeed, there has to be a physical connection. Even though God's Grace is responsible, there has to be a lifting process.
- Again, my capacity is founded upon faith, and this faith comes from my prayer-life and my meditation-life...
- Question: You said that the process of successfully realising God is ninety-five per cent God's Grace and five per cent personal effort. But when we realise God, you said we realise that even our five per cent was God's Grace. That being the case, how can a seeker be responsible for his success or failure?
- Why did you get up at six o’clock to pray and meditate, whereas your friends and acquaintances did not...
- Question: If someone is connected with a particular god or goddess, does that god or goddess show special concern for that person?
- , the cosmic gods and goddesses will help the seeker in so many ways when the seeker is praying and meditating...
- Nils Lodin: I agree with you, but in another way, because I think that we are part of the world. I can reach the highest point only by fulfilling myself, and that is not to be an egomaniac, but to do things that I feel are right, that are real. But all the same, I feel that in a way we are just lumps of clay.
- Similarly, we have to pray and meditate for years if we want to cover long inner distances....
- John Hanc: On the ultra-distance side, you and the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team have been leaders in expanding the limits of what people can run. Do you think there will be any limit to the distance people can run? Ten years from now will we be talking about a 2,000-mile or a 5,000-mile run?
- By praying and meditating....
- This is the supreme secret: the more you think of your soul, the faster you can make progress[^7]
- In silence you will say only two words while you are meditating: ‘Supreme’ and Jharna-Kala....
- Question: Guru, how do we free ourselves from depressions?
- When we meditate on light, light comes either from above or from within....
- Mr. Edwin Ross: In India, what was your function or business or pursuit, Sri Chinmoy?
- But I wanted to be a seeker of the Infinite, so right from my childhood I started meditating and concentrating...
- Aging Ashramites
- At the meditation hall, I could not recognise anybody. They are all new....
- Question: Is it possible for a disciple to learn from a more advanced seeker?
- time to reach the goal, just as the good advice a parent gives his children, to speak the truth and to meditate...
- Question: It seems in my office that the people most receptive to you are the people I have the most conflicts with.
- Ten people from your office have come to our meditation....
- Question: If somebody were to be awakened in the middle of the night and hear a clear voice say, "Come to me. I am your Teacher," how would he interpret it? Is this a kind of initiation?
- Their Guru came to them during a dream or meditation and said, “I have come in another form.”...
- Question: You use the word "seeker". When does the seeker cease seeking and become a disciple?
- Each teacher has a specific way of offering meditation to the disciple’s outer being....
- Question: If I pray for my father, will this benefit his soul's evolution despite the fact that he does not lead a spiritual life?
- Sri Chinmoy: If one does not lead a spiritual life and another member of his family prays and meditates...
- Question: There is a lot of sickness and sadness in the world. What is the best way to seek spiritual healing?
- are many around us — our friends, relatives, neighbours, acquaintances — who do not pray to God or meditate...
- He really cared for his mother
- He was meditating with his disciples....
- Question: Do people today have more confidence in what they know because of science?
- if they read my writings for even five minutes, they would enter into my world as well as into their meditation-world...
- Question: How can you tell the vibration of a place?
- No, some spiritual Master or some saint has meditated there and he has left some of his consciousness...
- June 26
- My Lord Supreme, my Beloved Supreme, my Eternity's All, today marks the first anniversary of my weightlifting career.
There was a time when You made me a runner, a sprinter, an athlete. Now You have turned me into a bodybuilder, a weightlifter.
My Lord, soulfully, devotedly and unconditionally I shall become what You want me to become.
Bodybuilders of the highest magnitude, weightlifters of the highest magnitude, Olympic heroes, are here to celebrate my weightlifting anniversary. I know, I know, my Lord Supreme, what they are actually doing. They are sharing their sincere love for Your infinite Compassion in me. They are all seekers. Some are conscious seekers, while others are going to be conscious seekers before long. What do I learn from them? I learn something most significant. This lesson I have been learning from You since I was four, when I started praying and meditating with Your infinite Grace.
My Lord, You are the Infinite. You become the finite, yet You do not lose Your Eternity, Infinity and Immortality. The finite is also You. Inside the heart of the finite, You play the role of the Infinite. Here on earth, when the supreme authorities on bodybuilding and weightlifting come to see me and be part of our oneness-family, I feel that the Infinite and the finite, the big and the small, together can sing the song of oneness-peace-family and thus make You happy, offering You satisfaction in Your own Way.
My Lord, my Lord, my Lord, may my outer name and my inner name be gratitude, gratitude, gratitude — sleepless gratitude, breathless gratitude and deathless gratitude — my Lord, my Eternity's Lord, my Absolute Beloved Supreme.