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- Interviewer: What did you have in your mind before going to America? What made you accept their invitation?
- From the dawn of my life I have been praying and meditating....
- Question: Sometimes when we are working on manifestation, I have an idea which feels inwardly totally right to me and somebody else says it is not so good. Then I feel insecure and I do not want to hurt the other person.
- Sri Chinmoy: Suppose you have a sister who is not praying and meditating....
- Question: I am studying to be an actor. Is it possible for me to follow a spiritual path and also to have this outside activity?
- Do not think that if you just meditate for five minutes, or offer a prayer or your admiration to the...
- Art
- them; for the most important thing is this universal soul, for which the Eastern sages have sat in meditation...
- Question: When you bring down certain qualities such as Peace, Light, Bliss and Power, do you bring down certain measured amounts or do you just bring down until we stop receiving?
- Sometimes the individual receives according to the collective aspiration of the group with which he is meditating...
- Question: I think people would say that the way in which you choose to discover yourself is not good for people because it tends to turn them inward, so their attention is more exclusively on themselves rather than on making the kinds of changes that have a significant impact on large numbers of people. And by concentrating on one's own fulfilment and self-discovery a lot of other things that are of greater need to the world are neglected, in a sense.
I don’t ask my students to enter into a room and remain there meditating for hours....
- Question: Can an individual be consciously surrendered without having first realised the state of being that allows him to be freed from all effort?
- We pray and meditate and this is what you call personal effort....
- Question: There are several paths to spiritual attainment and each stresses something different, such as Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga and Jnana Yoga. How can a person know which path is his path, which aspect of the spiritual life he should stress?
- He himself knows whether he is more inclined to work and serve or he is more inclined to pray and meditate...
- When you pass by me[^15]
- The first time when you pass by me during our walking meditation, I greet the human in you with all my...
- Question: What is the role of Pranayama in the spiritual life?
- There are many who do not go through breathing exercises before meditation....
- Question: The bad boy did not pray for protection, either.
- Again, if someone else prays and meditates over the years, he accumulates good karma....
- The supreme necessity of a oneness-heart[^25]
- But the inner heart, the heart that we need to pray to God, to meditate on God, to love God and serve...
- Interviewer: Why do you do this?
- I have been going to the United Nations to offer meditations since 1970....
- Question: If we have been bad, is it good to think of the father in you?
- Sri Chinmoy: Let us say that you could not get up early and meditate in the morning and you feel that...
- Question: You said that time is short. Were you referring to the spiritual life or to the life on earth?
- Our business is to pray and meditate, and we have to leave the results at His Feet....
- Question: How does a person overcome doubt about himself?
- We can conquer doubt just by meditating on the soul or thinking always of the soul....
- Question: Please explain how individuals become collective souls.
- Sri Chinmoy: When a group of individuals pray and meditate together, they don’t become individual souls...
- Mr Robert Muller: Anthropologists have found a gradation of religious beliefs over the history of mankind: ritualism, animism, ancestor worship, polytheism, monotheism. All these forms were associated with changes in the social structure. Recently, the "age of reason" and the scientific and industrial revolution have rendered religion and spirituality obsolete — even harmful — in the eyes of many. What, in your view, is likely to be the "religion" or "spirituality" of humanity tomorrow as a satisfactory answer to man's queries about his relationships with the universe, his fellow men and the mysteries of life? Is this likely to be reflected in the United Nations as a forum where humanity is seeking new ways for its destiny and fulfilment?
- Together with meditation, it is perhaps the clue to serenity in our bewildered, complex world....
- This is Puerto Rico!
- Every time I met with him, we used to meditate for five or ten minutes first, and then his wife, Lila...
- Question: Guru, how does power help us enter into sweetness and into our loving consciousness?
- The power that we concentrate and meditate upon in order to become universal, which is the illumining...
- Question: What attitude should we take toward religions other than our own?
- Feel that your path will help him and that you are inwardly meditating on him....
- Question: Please explain if a desire to live can keep a body alive even though the body is diseased.
- When we meditate on the soul, we help our bodies with the soul’s divine Energy and Will....
- Question: When I meditate and I force myself to go deep within, something inside me accuses me of
- But if He wants me to be free of problems, so that I can think of Him and meditate on Him all the time...
- Question: Guru, how is it possible to have both our inner and outer life synchronised so that we feel we are one person? I often feel like I am two people.
- So, if you are really satisfied with your aspiration, meditation and contemplation in your inner life...
- Aspiration-Ground: All peace, all joy, all love, all oneness
- To have this place to pray and meditate and get joy is indeed a supreme achievement....
- Question: I think people would say that the way in which you choose to discover yourself is not good for people because it tends to turn them inward, so their attention is more exclusively on themselves rather than on making the kinds of changes that have a significant impact on large numbers of people. And by concentrating on one's own fulfilment and self-discovery a lot of other things that are of greater need to the world are neglected, in a sense.
- I don’t ask my students to enter into a room and remain there meditating for hours....
- Sri Chinmoy Day in Queens
- I have attended some meditation sessions and some of his events that have taken place, and I feel that...
- Question: A neighbour of mine swears very loudly, and when he does that, I always say, "God bless you." Is this the right thing to do?
- As God is hearing your prayers and observing your meditation, so also God is listening to his curses....
- Question: Do you or your inner beings play jokes with us on the inner plane?
- I say, in my own justification, “I pray with them and meditate on them, and if they are receptive, then...
- Hope[^3]
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We the members of the Meditation Group at the United Nations have only one friend, a soulful...