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- Question: Besides meditating, if you have confusion, say someone has told you something that confuses
- I meditated here for a long time for half an hour; it is a long experience, now let me lie down in the … No, while lying down also I have to continue keeping the vibration of my meditation inside me during...
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When we pray and meditate, we grow into divinity. … When we don’t pray and meditate, we remain undivine. … But just because we don’t pray and meditate all the time, we cannot say that we are unspiritual....
- Question: How can we feel that the inner world is more real than the outer world?[^1]
- Someone may not aspire, someone may not pray to God or meditate on God, but if anything happens to his
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...
- The defeat of Britrasur[^9]
- They pray and pray and meditate and meditate, and gradually they regain their power. … The asuras pray and meditate and become stronger, while the gods become weaker because they have entered...
- Patience illumines[^14]
- Kashyapa used to spend most of his time in meditation while his wives did the housework.
Once, Kashyapa left for a few days of serious meditation.
When Kashyapa returned from his few days of meditation, he saw that Binate had become Kadru’s slave...
- The zamindar and the hermit
The hermit waited near the zamindar’s meditation room. … After finishing his shower, the zamindar went to his meditation room. … The zamindar came out of his meditation room and asked the guard, “What did he want?”...
- 16 October 1998
During the concert, Sri Chinmoy played his meditative compositions on a variety of instruments from
Sri Chinmoy opens the Peace Concert with a silent meditation.
Sri Chinmoy offers his prayers for President Mandela and gives the final meditation....
- Mactan-Cebu International Airport — a Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport[^1]
- These last 23 years I have been serving the United Nations with my prayers and meditations. … officials — ambassadors, delegates and diplomats — down to the general staff, who come to pray and meditate
Let us pray and meditate to be the beauty of our heart-flower and fragrance of our heart-flower....
- Question: I have noticed that most of the highly spiritually developed souls that I have read of or known seem to be men, and I have wondered why this is so.
- just go deep within, we see that most of the so-called great spiritual Masters and Yogis prayed to or meditated … For Immortality you have to aspire; you have to meditate.” … She meditated and she did realise the Highest....
- Question: Is the reason you discourage your disciples from having children because children hinder parents' progress?
- We have meditated for so many years; we are all spiritual people. … If it is unnecessary, He will try to convince you in so many ways through your aspiration and meditation … children — to see whether the child has eaten or whether the child is properly dressed — is as good as meditation...
- Question: Why do you ask your male disciples to have short hair and not to wear a beard?
- Then, when others sit near a man with dirty or unkempt hair, they feel uneasy; it disturbs their meditation … big that it obscures his face, even though he may not be aware of it, the people who are trying to meditate … But I wish to say that if he does not follow a Master and he meditates by himself, then naturally he...
- Cleanliness and purity
- When I see sincere, devoted disciples in front of me during meditation, it gives me tremendous inspiration … It would be good if the young men would buy one extra white outfit which they will keep only for meditation … You should not wear to meditation the same old clothes that you wear every day....
- Receptivity and the Master's Height
- There you can attend a meditation.” … Then he was interested in knowing who was going to hold the meditation. … It has happened that while a spiritual Master is talking to his disciples, visitors join in the meditation...
- Inner Flames at the United Nations[^4]
We, the members of the United Nations Meditation Group, are each inner flames, and we are each trying
We the seekers and members of the United Nations Meditation Group are trying to serve both the soul-reality … Meditation Group's Second International Conference for the Opening of the General Assembly with the following...
- Question: Does it help you to know what kind of animal you were in your past incarnations, or what kind of person you were?
- Deep in our meditation we can easily feel that we had previous lives. … forward in the spiritual life with his own aspiration and inner cry, with his own concentration and meditation … You want God, and if you meditate soulfully, God is bound to grant you that boon....
- Question: Why did God create all this misery and unhappiness if He is the Creator? Why did He not create perfection?
- What is worse, we don’t meditate at all. So you see how we misuse our limited freedom and capacity. … They don’t have five minutes to meditate daily on God. … Days will run into weeks and weeks into months, but to your utter amazement, they will not have meditated...
- The missing disciples[^8]
- Twice a week he would meditate with his disciples at his own house and share with them his highest meditation … I don’t think they are meditating and raising their consciousness at home....
- Question: Why do animals have to suffer pain, illness and injury since they are not conscious like human beings?[^1]
- But just because we pray and meditate, we do feel that there is Someone who is a little higher than we … For that we have to pray and meditate with utmost sincerity, utmost humility. … God laughs and says, “I do not need your twenty-four hours of prayer and meditation to make Me happy. … After you meditate, how many of you sing the Invocation? Every day I sing the Invocation. … If you do not want to meditate, only think of the Invocation: “Supreme, I bow to Thee!”...
- God pleases everybody in his own way
- He used to pray and meditate for hours and hours every day. … For countless years I prayed and meditated to realise the highest. … But please allow me to pray and meditate under the guidance of this guru.” … He started praying and meditating and having deep experiences....
- Question: How can we not think about ourselves first?
- If you think of the prayer and meditation that you have done for the last three or four years, you will … The best thing is to meditate on Him, through surrender, through devotion and through love; to pray to … But if you think, "Every day Guru meditates on me," then you will make the fastest progress. … He has kept at least one inner being for me, to meditate for me, to think of me."...
- The finite and the infinite
If you meditate in order to achieve something in a most tangible and intimate way, it is helpful to
When the beginner meditates early in the morning, he should meditate on the Feet of the personal Supreme … This form of meditation can be practised by any aspirant who is trying to go beyond his limited existence...
- Reflections on Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna
Meditation is our soul’s cry for our life’s perfect perfection.
Meditation alone can give birth to perfection. … Meditation carries us beyond the frustration of the senses, beyond the limitation of the reasoning mind … And, finally, meditation can present us with the breath of perfection....
- The significance of a flower
- On Saturday, 21 August, Sri Chinmoy conducted a 7-hour public meditation at All Angels Church in Manhattan … he gave a flower to each disciple and seeker present, and during much of the remaining time everyone meditated … Let us meditate on our sincere inner humility for a few minutes.
Purity. … Now let us meditate on divinity, our own highest inner divinity....
- 8 December 1995, Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center, New York, New York
- of you this evening as Sri Chinmoy graces Lincoln Center and all of us with his spiritual music and meditation...
- Scene 3
- I shall pray to God in this state and try to realise God through my prayers and meditation....
- Question: Guru, you ask us to feel oneness with others, but how can we feel oneness with others and at the same time not be affected by their negative qualities?
- But if the same person stops stealing and starts praying and meditating, then you will appreciate his...
- God-realisation in six months
- My eldest brother, Hriday, used to pray and meditate seven or eight hours a day, but perhaps he did not...
- Biren's vision
- One day during my highest meditation, I saw that Madal was Gorakshanath.”...
- Question: How can we always see the divine qualities in others?
- If you see inside them somebody praying and meditating, or a most luminous, divine child, you will be...
- The Master's ways are inscrutable
Sri Ramakrishna used to smoke a hookah frequently before he entered into his highest meditation....