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- Can't we just meditate by ourselves and find the answer?
- Sri Chinmoy: Suppose you find it extremely difficult to go deep within by yourself. You say, “I am suffering from certain mental difficulties, but I know the answer is inside. Now it is all night, but I feel that there is light inside my heart.” This is what you feel, but you find it difficult to go deep within and discover the...
- Question: When I try to feel something flowing in my meditation, I feel that I get complacent.
- Sri Chinmoy: At the start of a race when the judge says, "On your mark, get set, go!" there is so much alertness and tension. Then, after covering thirty metres, your arms and your legs get a kind of coordination. At that time you feel that you are totally relaxed, that you are not running at all. But your speed is in no way...
- Can't we just meditate by ourselves and find the answer?
- Sri Chinmoy: Let us say that you are suffering from certain mental difficulties. You have surrendered to frustration and depression owing to countless problems in your life. You feel that there is light inside your heart, but you find it difficult to go deep within and bring that light into your mind. What you have to do is go...
- Question: In meditating on the heart, should we try to feel the heart, or concentrate the mind on
- Sri Chinmoy: No, we don't take the help of the mind at all. We focus the attention of our entire being on the heart, but this attention is not coming from the mind. The body is a being with an existence which we claim as our very own. Let this existence focus its attention on the heart. Our concentration is coming from our...
- Question: Sir, I have read of astral power, that through meditation one can bring out one's inner
- Sri Chinmoy: Well, I have done it hundreds of times, thousands of times. We call it the astral body. It is inside the physical body. It is the astral body with which we take astral journeys. The astral world is in the vital world. If you practise spirituality you will also acquire this kind of ability. We have six major...
- Question: When I meditate I feel a sensation in the heart centre, and throughout the day I feel
- Sri Chinmoy: To feel that kind of sensation is very good. It means that your body, vital and mind have become one with the 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 thinking of doubting. When the body becomes one, when the vital becomes...
- Simplicity, sincerity, purity and divinity[^1]
- Let us meditate on our sincere inner humility for a few minutes.
Purity.
Now let us meditate on divinity, our own highest inner divinity. (1): SSD 1. … On 21 August 1976 Sri Chinmoy conducted a seven-hour public meditation at All Angels Church in Manhattan … At the beginning of the second session, he asked those present to meditate on simplicity, sincerity,...
- To have a sweet family
When you pray most sincerely and meditate very well, you must realise that your prayers and meditations … When I think of my eldest brother, in terms of praying and meditating for hours and spending time in … Long before I came to the Ashram, he spent many, many hours in prayer and meditation....
- The reality within[^3]
- In the normal course of development we pray to God, meditate on God, contemplate God and love Him soulfully … When we pray and meditate consciously, we expedite and shorten our journey: we walk along a sunlit path … We pray and meditate and work devotedly in our selfless service to create a life of aspiration and dedication … notice a higher Reality, we have to know that this Reality is bound to increase our inner prayer, inner meditation...
- Renunciation
- For renunciation, we have to go deep within and pray and meditate. … We are not afraid of the unknown because we pray and meditate. … Our prayer and meditation is like a searchlight that lets us see far ahead. … If we do not use this searchlight of prayer and meditation, we will not be able to see anything ahead...
- Sri Chinmoy's commentary on "An orphan boy"
When you pray most sincerely and meditate very well, you must realise that your prayers and meditations … of my eldest brother, he far, far surpassed me in terms of the amount of time he spent in prayer and meditation … Long before I came to the Ashram, he began praying and meditating most intensely....
- Renunciation[^2]
- For renunciation, we have to go deep within and pray and meditate. … We are not afraid of the unknown because we pray and meditate. … Our prayer and meditation is like a searchlight that lets us see far ahead. … If we do not use this searchlight of prayer and meditation, we will not be able to see anything ahead...
- The reality within
- In the normal course of development we pray to God, meditate on God, contemplate God and love Him soulfully … When we pray and meditate consciously, we expedite and shorten our journey; we walk along a sunlit path … We pray and meditate and work devotedly in our selfless service to create a life of aspiration and dedication … notice a higher Reality, we have to know that this Reality is bound to increase our inner prayer, inner meditation...
- 1. Man and God[^1]
- The 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 the aspirant has to be very careful. … During meditation everything is intense and, if the aspirant indulges in evil thoughts, the effects become...
- Question: I have some friends who do Christian meditation. … They have been able to really meditate on the Bible, but whenever they felt that they had come close
- Sri Chinmoy: No, that is not true. I mean I am saying this from the viewpoint of our path. I have no right to speak about the Christian belief or your friend. In our path we say that there are two poles: North Pole and South Pole. Let us say the South Pole is darkness and the North Pole is light. Now, if my aim is to reach the...
- Farewell
- I spent twenty years there practising yoga and meditation....
- Gratitude
- of sincere gratitude to the Supreme is equal to an hour of most intense aspiration, concentration, meditation...
- Humility
- It is through humility that we can dive the deepest and climb the highest in our meditation....
- Success and progress[^6]
- Meditation defines success and progress in life. Success is the body-dance of self-gratification....
- Question: How can we be free of the ego?
- If we practise meditation and self-discipline, and if we live the inner life, slowly, steadily and unerringly...
- Question: How can I know the quintessence of Infinity?
- And this oneness you achieve through prayer and meditation....
- Question: How is it possible to have our inner life and our outer life synchronised so that we don't feel like two different people?
- if we are really giving sincere attention to our inner life — to our aspiration, concentration and meditation...
- Scene 1
- For God-realisation you have to pray, you have to meditate. You have to cry like a child....
- Question: How can I increase my receptivity?
- Then, if you want to increase your receptivity, each day before you meditate, offer your deepest gratitude...
- Question: My cousin and I have meditated a couple of times, or at least we have just looked into
- When you meditate on each other this way, the undivine forces of one can enter into the other....
- World aspiration
- They are invoking light, praying, meditating, but through the mind....
- Question: If the teacher leaves the body should you try to maintain contact with him?
- the Buddha or the Christ — a Master who is fully identified with God-Consciousness — then when you meditate...
- Preface
For this historic visit, Sri Chinmoy was joined by 400 members of his meditation Centres in the former...
- My passport[^12]
Every day, without fail, I must learn a new gratitude-meditation that will fly into the Heart of my...
- Question: Sometimes in my dreams I see a seashore, and I feel that I once lived there. I don't know why, but it is very unpleasant for me.
- We have to pray and meditate sincerely for a few years so that we can learn to distinguish between a...