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- Question: I have read your aphorism that says. "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God." Could you please elaborate on this?
- But when we pray and meditate early in the morning, if we cherish good thoughts, divine thoughts, loving...
- Closing remarks
- Sri Chinmoy [offering copies of his books, The Garland of Nation-Souls and My meditation-service at the...
- Question: How can we know our mission in the spiritual life?
- We can know our mission if every day we meditate on the Supreme or pray to the Supreme to bring our soul...
- Question: How do you feel about the attention that you get? Is that sometimes a hindrance for you?
- Sri Chinmoy: I have been praying and meditating since the age of four. Now I am fifty-seven....
- Student: Sri Chinmoy, you've been teaching us about self-realisation and realisation of the Supreme. In the spiritual life, what should be one's responsibility to others?
Just because God wants someone to spend his time praying and meditating rather than entering into...
- Question: Will you always intervene in the inner world when your disciples need help?
- disciples are in need of help, I have to go to them, no matter what I am doing, even if I am in my highest meditation...
- Question: Guru, I have a question about a dream my husband had. He is not a disciple, but the dream was about you. He dreamt that you visited him and had a discussion about genetics with him and that you told him that environment was not that important in one's spiritual development.
- The spiritual people around a Master, who also pray and meditate with him, become his real children....
- Question: Guru, for you, using spiritual power is almost as easy as drinking water. But when you lift heavy weights it seems that you really have to struggle and afterwards you seem to feel a real sense of achievement.
- If I am operating on the psychic plane and you are praying and meditating, at that time it is not so...
- Act IX, Scene 7
- How was it possible for you to carry on your eight-hour walk, your literary activity and meditation,...
- Question: How can we cultivate the inner silence so that we can know God's Will?
- If you just meditate and do selfless service, you can know it....
- In search of a Guru
- But without a spiritual guide, he was unable to enter into deep prayer and meditation....
- Question: Can a person know if he has made contact with his soul and is working from the soul's region?
- Sri Chinmoy: It is through meditation and aspiration that he will know....
- Question: Will God's Reality ever be found on earth?
- Other worlds do exist; we can go to them during our sleep, or during meditation....
- Question: I work in a cancer hospital where people frequently die. Sometimes when people are dying I see a quality or a look on their face which is very similar to something that I see in your face. Can you tell me why?
- There are times when my disciples meditate most soulfully on me, and identify themselves with me to such...
- Question: When you bring down Peace and Light to us, do you have to go into nirvikalpa samadhi?
- Through the process of prayer, meditation, love, devotion and surrender, we develop conscious oneness...
- Question: When you first came to the platform this evening, before you began to speak, you, I presume, meditated
- Then, even if I had not spoken a word, if I had not said anything at all and just meditated with all...
- Question: Please explain what will be the first step for an ordinary person who has not been in contact with spiritual teachings and wants to enter into the path of self-realisation.
- Through his inner cry, through prayer, through aspiration, through concentration and meditation, he has...
- Question: Please explain what will be the first step for an ordinary person who has not been in contact with spiritual teachings and wants to enter into the path of self-realisation.
- Through his inner cry, through prayer, through aspiration, through concentration and meditation, he has...
- Question: There is a lot of sickness and sadness in the world. What is the best way to seek spiritual healing?
- around us — our friends, relatives, neighbours, acquaintances — who do not pray to God, who do not meditate...
- Sri Chinmoy day in San Francisco
- prominent interdenominational religious leader and is currently the Director of the United Nations Meditation...
- Question: Why has technology progressed so much in the past 50 years?
- When all the world’s comforts are there, then instead of meditating and praying, we sleep....
- Question: Sri Chinmoy, considering all of humanity's past and present physical aggressions against each other and lack of inner peace and unity, do you foresee in our future, our physical future, a spiritual oneness and peace, complete peace, among nations and peoples?
- When we pray soulfully, when we meditate sincerely, God, out of His infinite Bounty, showers His choice...
- Question: Does a person have to renounce the world in order to make spiritual progress?
- is darkness in our own consciousness — in body, vital, mind or heart — then we shall pray to God and meditate...
- Pride, humiliation and illumination
- He used to pray and meditate most soulfully every day.
The following morning this particular student and his brother and sister disciples were meditating … We are only interested in praying and meditating. … In an ashram, we pray and meditate. … If you had been sincere enough you would have joined us in our prayer and meditation....
- Question: How can we create and then maintain a warrior-like attitude towards overcoming our weaknesses?[^1]
To sit down and pray and pray and meditate and meditate is one side of our aspiration. … We know how to meditate, but how long do we meditate? … You can meditate or run and say, “I am doing this for God.” … Now, the question is, did my father pray and meditate? Did my mother pray and meditate? … Then let me be wise and say, “They did not pray and meditate. I will do it, I will do it!”...
- Schonfeld: That would account for your form of meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: In the East people care more for the inner light than for the outer light. In the West people tend to be for the outer light first and then for the inner light. There is nothing wrong with the quest of the western world. In the outer life, the scientific discoveries of the West have taken man very far. The West...
- Question: Master, during my meditation, I see a triangle of pure, white light behind you that covers
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- h3>Question: When the aspirant feels that his spiritual progress has stopped and it is difficult to meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: It is quite possible to get back that aspiration and there are various ways to do so. The first way is to repeat the name of your spiritual Master. Or if you do not have a Master, then you can repeat ‘AUM’ or ‘Supreme’. You should repeat the name while breathing in. There is no need of counting how many times you...
- Question: Sometimes when I am meditating I see different visual perceptions, shaking and concentric
- Sri Chinmoy: In these visions you are entering into different worlds. These worlds are real; they are not mental hallucinations. What you need most in your life is purification of the body, mind and vital. These visions will not go away. Out of His infinite Bounty, God has shown you these worlds. But if you want real access to...
- Joel Martin: When one wants to learn meditation, must a spiritual Master teach it to you?
- Sri Chinmoy: If one wants to learn how to drive, is it not advisable for him to take at least a few lessons from someone who knows how to drive? Otherwise, he will be given the car and immediately he will have an accident and return to God in Heaven before he realises God here on earth. In spirituality also one can make...