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- I watch, I pray[^2]
- God meditates, accepts and, finally, embraces my heart with His constant Self-giving Reality and Self-giving...
- Master Chinmoy, I have just introduced you in Spanish and explained some of your works that I have read in Spanish.
- All of them come to me and meditate with me and ask me spiritual questions to solve their inner and outer...
- Question: Can generosity ever be a spiritual fault?
- amount of money so that he does not have to work very hard and he will be able to spend all his time meditating...
- Question: How do you make the difference between first class and second class disciples?
- This feeling has to come during meditation, during real meditation. … Only during a very good, high meditation will you be able to know whether you are first class, or second...
- The body's necessity
- Early in the morning, something within us is inspiring us to get up and meditate. … When the soul told us to get up at five o’clock and meditate, if we had listened to the soul, then we … would have got up and meditated....
- Question: What is the best way to meditate so that we can be spiritually strong?
- that you have lost something which you have received, then immediately sit down and concentrate on it, meditate … Twenty minutes of your one-pointed concentration, meditation and contemplation will be enough to get … or so, but a maximum of twenty minutes it may take to get it back, provided you have concentration, meditation...
- Punishment from the Master
- I meditated for years and years, not for occult power, but to realise God. … Meditate. If God is pleased with you, if He wants, He will give you this kind of power. … "Try to meditate a little, then let me see if I can transmit my occult power to you."...
- Question: How can we feel that the inner world is more real than the outer world?
- Even if someone does not aspire, or pray and meditate, if anything happens to his heart, he will be miserable
When we don’t pray and meditate, we see only the physical world around us. … But when we pray and meditate we see and feel that there is another world and that this physical world...
- Question: There isn't such a great role in the West of non-verbal communication. How do you deal with people who are used to a different kind of communication?
- I hold meditations several nights a week, and I have quite a few Centres. … I can speak to you for hours and hours, but rest assured that if I meditate with you or on you for just … I shall be holding meditations at various places....
- The significance of the soul's name
- When the disciple has a spiritual name and he meditates on his name, at that time his divine qualities … Is there any parent who meditated for hours and hours to get a name for his child? No, not even one! … By soulfully repeating your soul’s name and meditating on your soul’s name with utmost aspiration, you...
- Punishment from the Master
- I meditated for years and years, not for occult power, but to realise God. … Meditate. If God is pleased with you, if He wants He will give you this kind of power. … “Try to meditate a little, then let me see if I can transmit my occult power to you.”...
- Meeting with Emilio Macias II
Sri Chinmoy: It will happen in the very near future if we enter more into the life of prayer and meditation … Each human being should have more faith in prayer and meditation. … Without prayer and meditation, the peace process will be a joke; it will only be talk in the mind. … I pray and meditate for God's inner Guidance and try to become a devoted, faithful instrument of His. … And only if our body is fit will we be able to get up early in the morning to pray and meditate....
- Notes from book
- Action and liberation / 43
George Washington University, 22 April 1969
The supreme secret of meditation … Prana and the power of the chakras / 215
New York University, 21 February 1973
Concentration, meditation … 1973
Self-discovery and transformation / 230
New York University, 7 March 1973
Concentration, meditation … Connecticut at Storrs, 14 January 1974
Choice / 273
University of Maryland, 16 January 1974
Meditation … University, 9 June 1975, 8:00 pm
We learn / 462
Long Island University, 12 July 1975
Prayer and meditation...
- Human freedom and divine freedom[^30]
- You are holding meditations here twice a week. Wednesday is your most important day. … Towards the end of your Centre meditation, please sing “Give Me No Freedom.” … All your prayers and meditations have to be for the Supreme. Everything has to be for the Supreme. … You are offering your prayers and meditations to Him. … On a particular day when we pray and meditate well, we get tremendous joy....
- God will give you what you actually need
- If somebody sitting beside you is doing a better meditation, please try to do as he is doing. … Tomorrow, early in the morning, I shall send my ministers to the banks of the Ganges where many holy men meditate … Let me go there and meditate with the monks. Who knows, perhaps I may be selected. … Early the next morning, dressed in the garb of a holy man, the thief went to the Ganges and started meditating … "Tomorrow I shall bring my daughter to the banks of the Ganges where the holy men are praying and meditating...
- Doctors' night at the Jharna-Kala Gallery[^6]
- We too want to conquer death, by praying and meditating, so that we can be perfect instruments of God … Each moment of our human life is a golden opportunity for us to pray and meditate soulfully. … We need the body in order to manifest those divine qualities that we received during our meditation. … I have also discovered something: soulful prayer and meditation. … Before you offer medicine I say, “Let us meditate for a few minutes, for inside the patient is the Supreme...
- Question: When I wake up to meditate in the morning I am still sleepy.
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- Question: Sometimes when I am meditating I feel that my vital being tries to create a noise in my
- Your part is your daily meditation. God's part is to fulfil you, but at His choice Hour....
- Question: Guru, if you are meditating in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the United Nations, for
- Sri Chinmoy: It depends on two things. On that day, at that particular hour, it depends on how much Light the Supreme in me wants to reveal and it depends on how much receptivity the adjacent rooms have. If the adjacent rooms have tremendous receptivity and if the Supreme in me wants to reveal abundant Light, then definitely...
- Question: You mentioned that one of your disciples had seen your face of a previous incarnation during meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: One can get an inner experience, an inner vision from looking at a picture. People can get different experiences depending on what is within them. When one identifies with my consciousness, this is not only the consciousness of this incarnation, it is the consciousness of millennia which is constantly growing. When...
- Question: When I am meditating, some ideas come to my mind.
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- Question: I often see your mouth moving when I meditate with you.
- Sri Chinmoy: No, actually I am not talking. What actually happens is that tremendous light, energy, power and bliss enter into my body in infinite measure. Now, although I am one with the Supreme’s Will, the capacity of the physical is not unlimited. Our physical will is unlimited, but the physical sheath is limited. When these...
- Politics and spirituality
- People who pray and meditate have clear, good vision, and they are the ones who can lead the blind people … So with our prayer and meditation we try to bring light into the rooms that are still unlit and not fully...
- Question: How can we purify ourselves?
- For aspiration we have to concentrate and meditate. … If we concentrate and meditate, our aspiration will grow dynamically inside us....
- The Sri Aurobindo Ashram: a nursery of the spirit[^59]
- cultivate a comprehensive scale of divine values broad enough to harmonise opposites like work and meditation
The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, with its two inseparable limbs of action and meditation, makes...
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Sri Chinmoy said, “I live in New York and hold meditations in our Centres, and once a week I hold … a meditation at the United Nations.”...
- Human reality and divine reality
- Only when it is a matter of meditation, you cannot do it right now the way I do. … I do infinitely better meditation than you do....
- The king's surrender
- as he was going to tell a significant story:
Once there was a great spiritual Master who used to meditate … It happened that on one occasion he got an inner urge to meditate for three days sitting in the middle...
- Fear of the spiritual life
- But one day when you have had a very good meditation, ask yourself, “Has the outer world fully satisfied … Your aspiration, your meditation. Everybody is crying for one thing: happiness....
- Question: How can you overcome feelings of resentment and anger that you feel when your superiors appear to be unfair?
- In order to do this most effectively, we have to pray and meditate in silence to the Author of all good … So, it is only our inner prayer and meditation that can eventually and radically change their life....