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- My father and the occultist
- The occultist happened to be meditating, and he saw inwardly that my father and a friend were coming. … In later years he allowed his wife to come back to him, but she never cared for meditation — never!...
- Blessing or curse?
Shiva used to meditate in the Himalayas. … He would sit and meditate on the top of the highest mountain....
- Absent-mindedness
- I like you precisely because you meditate.
You say that you are absent-minded even at the time you meditate. You are deeply sorry for that....
- Anger
You have launched into the path of spirituality, dear Xanthippe; you have been meditating. … During your meditation, try to bring down Peace, sublime and solid, from Above....
- John Hanc: How does running fit in with your teaching?
- Prayer and meditation always remind us of our inner running. … Because we pray and meditate, we know that we have three friends: Eternity, Infinity and Immortality....
- Question: Do you suffer when the disciples inwardly offer you their thoughts and problems?
If you can get up on your own at six o’clock in the morning to pray and meditate, you will be so happy … But if your parents have to push you or your friends have to wake you up, yes, you will meditate, but...
- Question: Guru, when you are not around, how can we maintain a very strong and intense aspiration?
- If you come to a certain standard during your meditation, you feel that you have reached your goal. … Every day when you meditate, feel that you will go still deeper, fly still higher....
- Question: How can I conquer my physical desires?
- If you face the sun early in the morning when you meditate, your concentration and meditation will be...
- Question: Let us return to the topic of sport. Let us say there are two sportsmen. They may fight each other, even if it is a friendly fight. It could be boxing, it could be wrestling. If both of them pray, would that be good?
- About ten years ago, before one of his fights, he meditated with me for about fifteen minutes. … We prayed and meditated together. That night he won the fight....
- Question: Is friendship important in the spiritual life?
- Let us say you have taken a shower and are about to meditate. … But if you hadn't been so close to your friend, it would have been a real blessing for you to meditate...
- The human mother and the Divine Mother
- Right from his childhood, Hriday had been spiritually inclined, and he used to pray and meditate all … Every day the Ashram Mother used to come to the balcony and people used to meditate with her....
- Question: Is there a link or a 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 art of concentration, if we know the art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation...
- Back in athletics
- I will meditate for five minutes there before it starts.
Mr. Jordan: Wonderful! … Chinmoy: Two years ago when they held the Pan American Masters Games, they invited me to begin it with a meditation...
- Question: When you are meditating on us and I am looking at you, I think perhaps I should try to
- absolutely calm, quiet and vacant — like an empty vessel — and not allow anything to enter into it during meditation … Those meditating here who are not my students eventually will feel the necessity for a spiritual Master...
- Question: Guru, how may one develop the power of concentration?
- But when you want to meditate, at that time think of something very vast — the sky, the ocean, the mountains … So if you want to meditate and acquire power, just think of Infinity itself, because there is God’s infinite...
- Sorrow and joy[^4]
- Then we pray and meditate. From our prayer and meditation we also get joy....
- The man without desires
- There are people on earth who are praying and meditating. … He saw some persons very sincerely praying and meditating....
- Pleasing the Master
When the Master tells you to do something, if you do that very thing, then it is as good as real meditation … “Please bring me a glass of water,” at that time do not feel that you will get your realisation by meditating...
- 11. My father and the occultist
- The occultist happened to be meditating, and he saw inwardly that my father and a friend were coming. … In later years he allowed his wife to come back to him, but she never cared for meditation — never!...
- The Sri Aurobindo Ashram: a nursery of the spirit
- 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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- If you can consciously pray to God and meditate on God, this will help you immensely. … Each time you pray and meditate, just feel that you are transcending yourself. … If every day you can also pray and meditate for just five minutes in the morning and evening and, if … But there is only one way to have access to this energy, and that is through prayer and meditation. … So please, please, every day pray and meditate — just for five minutes in the morning and at night and...
- The third eye
- I wish to give a very short talk on the third eye; then we shall most soulfully concentrate, meditate
We pray and meditate with the hope that one day we shall enter into trance, for each seeker feels
Our aim, our goal, is to please the Absolute; therefore, we shall pray and meditate. … In this spot we shall concentrate, meditate and contemplate.
Now let us meditate on the third eye....
- Question: I know it helps my meditation to have an inner cry, but when I have the inner cry I always
- Sri Chinmoy: There is no limit to the inner cry. You can just go on, go on, go on. As it progresses, it becomes more intense. But when you get something most delicious, you may not want to eat the whole thing. It is so sweet and so delicious, but you do not feel like eating the whole thing, because it pleases you to know that...
- Question: When I am meditating, sometimes I have trouble distinguishing whether what I feel is my
- Sri Chinmoy: If it is your real heart, then you will get a sense of satisfaction, pure satisfaction. If it is the mind you may also get satisfaction, but immediately you will also get something else and that something else is doubt. Your experience will be attacked by other thoughts: "How can I have this kind of satisfaction? I...
- h3>Question: What does it mean to "express" the light or other qualities that you have received from meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: It can be to others, it can be to the atmosphere or it can be to the Universal Consciousness. Some people say, "Let me learn first. Then I will give." Others say, "No, let me give while learning." But from the spiritual point of view, when it is a matter of constant giving, it is always better to realise and...
- Question: Are rituals and invocations really important for meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: No, no! This idea is wrong. It is not that I am not with you. On the contrary, you have to feel that I am with you, but while you are invoking me, at that time you are actually manifesting me. My consciousness is always with you, with all my disciples. You may think that you are praying to me and invoking me. No....
- Question: Because there are many schools of meditation, it becomes hard for a person to select one
- Sri Chinmoy: It is very easy because it is all a matter of inner feeling. Here in this conference room there are quite a few people. They are all God’s children; they are all God-lovers and Truth-seekers. But all of them will not give you the same feeling. Only one or two individuals may give you a special feeling when you look...
- Question: Since I started meditating here, I have felt that my consciousness is in a different place
- Sri Chinmoy: Your consciousness is now in the heart centre. This is the centre of pure love and oneness. Formerly, your consciousness was in the mind. When you stay in the mind, all of life can seem like a dry piece of wood. But when you stay in the heart, life can be turned into a sea of pure love and bliss. Since you have...
- Question: Sometimes when you look around at us during meditation, when you start coming close to
- Sri Chinmoy: You are afraid of me because you feel that you will be exposed. Unconsciously you may think, "In the morning I was jealous, I doubted my spiritual life or I did something else wrong." Immediately the mind thinks of something, and you become afraid. But if you feel at that moment, "No, I am not the mind, I am the...
- Interviewer: You are not only meditating.
- Sri Chinmoy: When I use my mind, it is impossible even to imagine doing all these things. But when I use my heart, I feel that everything is possible because I know I am a mere instrument of God’s Compassion and, according to my receptivity, God does everything in and through me. It entirely depends on my own receptivity. God’s...