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- Question: Once when you meditated, I noticed that you touched your third eye first and then your
- Sri Chinmoy: The third eye is the vision centre. First we want to enjoy the vision of Bliss. And then, after we have enjoyed the Bliss, we have to put it somewhere for permanent use. And that is...
- Question: Then what about meditating on the base of the spine and trying to raise the kundalini from
- Sri Chinmoy: Some people very often make a mistake. They try to raise their kundalini in the traditional way, starting from the base of their spine; but their vital remains impure. Then they get into a lot of vital trouble. They say, "Oh, before Yoga I was far better off. I was very pure, but now my purity has...
- Question: Most of the time during my meditation I find myself walking inside a spiral.
- Sri Chinmoy: This has nothing to do with realisation. It is only an experience you are getting on your way. The spiral movement does not indicate realisation; it comes as an experience, as a good experience. It is the cosmic movement that you are seeing. Through the cosmic movement eventually one can realise God. Experience is...
- is difficult for me to get enough sleep, especially since I have to get up early in the morning to meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: In America, most people go to sleep at midnight or later. Here if you go to Greenwich Village at midnight, it is like midday. In India it is not like that. There, by ten o'clock everybody is in bed. So, in the same way, your Master is the culprit. He keeps you people up until one o'clock and so on. But if you come...
- Question: Master, during my meditation, I see a triangle of pure, white light behind you that covers
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- Question: I read a book about concentration and meditation that said one should pay attention to … the direction one faces while meditating, whether East, West, North or South.
- Sri Chinmoy: It depends on the individual. A sincere spiritual seeker who wants to realise God and God alone does not need any particular direction. He has to be infinitely above all such Indian traditional theories. For God-realisation what we actually need is aspiration in the purest sense...
- Buddhist chanting
- I love the long, long notes and the meditative quality from one note to another.
Mr Menuhin: Yes, they are the eternal words that we dream of and meditate on - words that last a long...
- Question: How can I conquer fear in my mind and in my heart?
- So when you sit for meditation, please feel the necessity of expanding your mind.
To get rid of fear in the heart, every day when you meditate, try to feel that you are inside the...
- Question: Sometimes I really want the life of God and I aspire very intensely and I am very happy. But sometimes my mind makes me think that the spiritual life is just a wild goose chase, and then I feel sad and sort of lost. How can I maintain my aspiration at a high level all the time?
- If you want to preserve today's inner victory, then you have to meditate again tomorrow and the day after … Every day when the time comes for you to meditate, just think of him for a few minutes and you are bound...
- Question: I was wondering about jealousy. Sometimes I try to convince myself that it doesn't matter if you show more attention to somebody else but it doesn't work.
- When I meditate early in the morning, if I see a dot on your heart, then I know that it has come from … When I meditate on you I will immediately see a dark spot in your heart and I will know....
- Negative thoughts
- During our meditation, slowly and steadily we develop will-power. … But this wealth is ours; we have got it through our prayer and meditation....
- Question: Will our sincerity always tell us whether we are pleasing God in God's own Way?
- If you get determination from prayer or meditation, then that is real determination. … Real determination has to come from tearful prayers or very profound meditation....
- The chosen instrument of God[^9]
- He knew the world-answer: meditation, and this he practised in silence.
God practised His silence-meditation in and through U Thant....
- Question: Sometimes I feel I am making a lot of progress and then, during the night, something happens, and I know it's happening even while I am asleep. I feel like something is interfering with my progress, and when I wake up I know that I have lost something. Is there any way that I can protect myself while I am asleep?
- Sri Chinmoy: I am always telling you people that before you go to sleep you should meditate for a few … If you consciously meditate on the navel centre to try to establish some purity there and if purity comes...
- The origin of Vishnu's Sudarshana Chakra
- Vishnu did not want to disturb Shiva’s meditation, so he started praying and praying to Shiva with the
Every day, for years and years, Vishnu prayed to Shiva, meditated on Shiva and chanted Shiva’s name...
- The soul of a year
Last year on New Year's Eve you meditated at midnight and in Puerto Rico we did the same. … If you can meditate from midnight to twelve-thirty this year also, it will be wonderful....
- Aspiration or manifestation: which comes first?[^7]
- So he and his disciples very often meditated in a field near the Master's home. … days we are given a hall in the village; other days this room is not available and we are forced to meditate...
- Question: Besides your name, is there a sound or a word that we can use when invoking you that brings us quickly to you?
- From the age of six, when I started my prayer and meditation, I have not had that experience. … It has happened in some cases that for five long years, not even one single day do they have a good meditation...
- Question: Can a spiritual Master use occult power to destroy wrong forces and expedite a seeker's progress?
- People sometimes have seen me looking very powerful during meditation. … You may have seen how powerfully I have meditated on someone....
- Question: How can we best use our free time?
- Sri Chinmoy: For unaspiring people, or for people who do not have the capacity to meditate, each free … If you have nothing to do for an hour, and you do not have the capacity to meditate, that hour you have...
- Question: What is your opinion about the use of drugs?
- During your meditation I promise to bring you the highest nectar, which we call ananda. … If you can enter into my highest consciousness during your meditation here and even at home, you will...
- Devotion is pure divinity[^2]
- If I go to meditate at the Centre, I will have such a sublime experience.” … The best thing is to go to the meditation....
- Question: How can we maintain our inner cry and intensity when we are not around you?
- During your meditation, if you come to a certain standard, you feel that you have reached your goal. … Every day when you meditate, feel you will dive still deeper, fly still higher....
- Temptation
- We can do it by consciously trying during our meditation to feel that we are the instrument and somebody … So we have to pray to the Supreme during our meditation: “O Lord, I am Your instrument....
- Joy
- When we meditate or contemplate, at that time we feel that we are the soul of joy. … Twenty-four hours a day we cannot meditate....
- Question: Is suffering necessary for spiritual progress?
- But by praying to God and meditating on God, we can change His Will. … God has given us the necessary faith to know that He loves us and thinks of us and meditates on us....
- The positive approach
- You are meditating here and a little boy is shouting, screaming. … But if you take the positive side all the time, through prayer, through meditation, through invoking...
- Mayor Beame honoured[^13]
- With deepest appreciation and admiration, the United Nations Meditation Group and Fountain-Art. … deeply moved by this presentation and I want to say that I could have used a lot of these moments of meditation...
- Question: Why do we have to pass through sad experiences such as suffering and sorrow?
- We can prevent unconscious mistakes only through our aspiration, prayer and meditation. … Often we think of God, pray to God and meditate on God, and then we see that all sorts of problems arise...
- Question: Is there a link or bridge between the inner world and the outer world?
- We don’t get five minutes to meditate or concentrate on our inner, real world. … If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine...