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- Your Master is not the body[^21]
- There you can have your highest meditation. The third samadhi is called sahaja.
Only when you are in your deepest, highest meditation will you know that your Master is not the body...
- Question: Why is darkness impermanent and light permanent?
- But this experience we get only when we meditate.
When we meditate, we get inner peace, peace of mind....
- Question: Do you feel it is important for the aspirant to follow the vegetarian diet?
- our part to eat something that would diminish our peace and tranquility and stand in the way of our meditation … He would not have to meditate, he would not have to concentrate; only by becoming a vegetarian, he could...
- Question: Sometimes I feel like 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 or something, 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? [^3]
- 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 and get some purity there, if purity comes to the fore...
- Question: Do you feel it is important for the aspirant to follow the vegetarian diet?
- kind of life, then it is foolishness on our part to eat something that would stand in the way of our meditation … He has not to meditate, he has not to concentrate; only by becoming a vegetarian, he could achieve union...
- Fate can be changed[^4]
- For many days I have made it a point to meditate on your ailment to bring down light. … You are using the cosmic energy that you have got from your prayer and meditation. … You thought of what you were going to play, or you concentrated and meditated on it. … You have a Master and you have prayed and meditated for so many years. … You have pleased God by praying and meditating, and God has given you the capacity....
- Reflections[^5]
- When we pray to God and meditate on God, we go to our inner school, and in order to go there we may or … But on the strength of our prayer and meditation, there comes a time when we realise the highest part … The fastest way to achieve this is to concentrate, meditate and contemplate.
Spirituality, which is true Yoga, demands concentration, meditation and contemplation. … When we pray and meditate, we go up high, higher, highest....
- Radio interview with Sri Chinmoy
- Sri Chinmoy is the Director of the United Nations Meditation Group. … But when we pray and meditate, we establish an access to a higher power. … So if we pray and meditate, then we can establish a universal oneness. … Now we don’t have to ask you to pray and meditate. … when they are delaying, when they are not on time to pray and meditate....
- Not to judge, but only to love[^5]
- He will meditate and give a talk. Who knows, he may even show us some of his occult power!” … the town, and even many people from the surrounding villages, had come to listen to the Master and meditate
The Master simply bowed his head and meditated in complete silence for several minutes....
- Conscious oneness with God[^7]
- And to achieve this conscious oneness with God what you have to do is to meditate and concentrate, nothing … Meditate on the Highest in your soul and concentrate on the lowest in your nature. … During your meditation God will present you with His Infinite Joy, Peace and Bliss....
- Man and his goal
- For that, what we need is meditation. Let us meditate, meditate on God....
- Conscious oneness with God
- And to achieve this conscious oneness with God what you have to do is to meditate and concentrate, nothing … Meditate on the Highest in your soul and concentrate on the lowest in your nature. … During your meditation God will present you with His infinite Joy, Peace and Bliss....
- Peace Concert dedicated to Mother Teresa at the United Nations[^5]
- There were about 20 religious leaders, and after a brief meditation, I offered each of them a rose.
[The Peace Meditation choir sings three songs by Sri Chinmoy dedicated to Mother Teresa, including … I will never forget the five o’clock in the morning early meditation and prayer with her all those times...
- Question: How can we increase our readiness and capacity?
- repentance, it will definitely, definitely weaken your subtle nerves, the nerves that help you pray, meditate … If the mind is enjoying self-doubt or doubting the Master, at that time bring forward the highest meditation … , all your best qualities and highest experiences you can keep in writing: when you had the highest meditation...
- Question: How can we get rid of wrong forces, other than by just trying to do the right thing?
- You may have had a good meditation at the centre or at home, but you are really weakening yourself when … If you do good meditation, you are getting this most precious thing, the satisfaction-diamond, every … But if you cannot meditate for a month or so because of some difficulty, I tell you your best weapon...
- Conversation — part IV
- For thirteen years I have been doing the same thing: praying, meditating and trying to be of service … They are all from the United Nations Meditation Group. They will be singing. … (Then Sri Chinmoy and Muhammad Ali meditate together in silence for about a half hour, standing side...
- III. Our peace is within[^1]
- The hope of achieving peace without meditation and spiritual discipline is to expect water in the desert … If sin has the power to make us weep, meditation has undoubtedly the power to give us joy, to endow us … devotion even for five minutes is more important than to spend long hours in carefree and easygoing meditation...
- Conscious oneness with God[^3]
- And to achieve this conscious oneness with God what you have to do is to meditate and concentrate. … Meditate on the Highest in your soul and concentrate on the lowest in your nature. … During your meditation God will present you with His infinite Joy, Peace: and Bliss....
- Question: Guru, could you tell us about some of the inner experiences you get while meditating during
- Sri Chinmoy: I could write a very large book with thousands of pages, not just hundreds, about my inner experiences at the United Nations. In these hour sessions, the experiences that I get with the Avatars, Yogis, spiritual figures and the Absolute Supreme would make a very juicy book. But these experiences are sacred and when...
- Question: I am constantly bothered by thoughts during my meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: If the mind becomes restless, that does not mean that we have to punish the mind all the time. What we should do is always be conscious of the mind. If the master of the house comes to learn that his long-time faithful servant has recently formed the habit of stealing, he does not immediately dismiss the servant....
- Question: Sir, I have read about astral travelling, that through meditation one can bring out one's
- Sri Chinmoy: I have done it hundreds and thousands of times. This travelling is done in the astral body. This astral world is inside the physical body and it is in the vital world. It is not in the gross physical; it is in the inner world. If you practise spirituality, you will also be able to do this kind of thing. There is a...
- Question: I feel an element of fear rising in myself when I meditate and reach for light.
- Here we are meditating, here we are answering questions and here we are trying to illumine ourselves....
- Are there any meditations or practices I can use?
- Sri Chinmoy: The small “I” will always make you feel that you are most important — not the Centre, not the Mission, not your spiritual brothers and sisters, but you. If something is to be done, the little “I” says, “I will do it and take all the credit.” But the big “I” will say, “No, let us do it together.” The little ego is...
- Question: One lady, when she meditates on your transcendental picture, sees it grow bigger, then
- Sri Chinmoy: Many, many people have had this experience from my transcendental picture. It is my subtle body that she is seeing. If my inner beings want to bring my subtle body forward, then this subtle body appears absolutely tangible. When I become one with the transcendental Consciousness, you have to know that that...
- Question: One lady, when she meditates on your transcendental picture, sees it grow bigger, then
- Sri Chinmoy: Many, many people have had this experience from my transcendental picture. It is my subtle body. When I become one with the transcendental Consciousness, that Consciousness can take the smallest form and, at the same time, a larger than the largest form. And if my inner being wants to bring my subtle body forward,...
- Question: I understand you spent time at Sri Aurobindo's Ashram. I was very impressed that all the members of the Ashram are celibate at all ages. Even married, they practise brahmacharya , or continence. I've noticed that many of your devotees don't have children. I'm wondering how you instruct them or inspire them or talk about this area of brahmacharya in marriage.
- Chinmoy: It is all based on my personal experience in the inner world, which grew out of my prayer and meditation … But if we get even an iota of bliss from our prayer and meditation, immediately our inner being is swimming … During our meditation, if for five seconds we get a glimpse of divine light, the whole day we are flying … Once they saw me, when I was giving talks or answering questions or meditating with them, they gave up … I tell my students that it is their bounden duty early in the morning to pray and meditate, but then...
- Pride, humiliation and illumination
- He used to pray and meditate most soulfully every day. He had a Guru who was of a very high order.
The following morning this particular student and his brother and sister disciples were meditating … We are 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: At the end of meditation, I feel very good.
- Sri Chinmoy: Whatever you feel must be preserved. How can you preserve it? Only by offering gratitude to the Inner Pilot. Also, you must feel that what you have achieved is not enough. You must continue. If you have received or achieved a dollar's worth of peace, then you must try to get ten dollars' worth of peace. And if you...
- When you came to realisation, was it a sudden thing during meditation or what?
- Sri Chinmoy: It is not a mental process. Unfortunately, I will not be able to explain it to you. It is a gradual revelation. Gradually, gradually, gradually it came to the point where everything became very clear to me. Gradually I came to the point where I saw or felt the truth that I had been searching for. When we take...
- Question: When I meditate I feel a sensation in the heart centre, and throughout the day I feel it
- Sri Chinmoy: To feel that kind of sensation is very good. It means that your body, vital and mind have become one with your heart's prayer. At that time the body is not thinking of eating or sleeping, the vital is not thinking of jumping, the mind is not doubting. When the body, vital and mind become one with the heart's cry,...