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- Question: If human beings ever establish colonies on the moon, will their presence affect the moon in any way that will be evident? I mean, will it give the moon a different kind of consciousness or will the people who live there have a different kind of consciousness?
- Today we can pray and meditate or we can sleep, but there we will not be able to....
- Question: How can we know our mission in the spiritual life?
- We can know our mission if every day we pray to the Supreme or meditate on the Supreme to bring to the...
- Tribute
- Sri Chinmoy meditated and then made the following remarks:
Sri Chinmoy: I would like to express my...
- India: Her Consciousness and Light
- And to have the Realisation, meditation and concentration are of paramount importance....
- Question: I take the vibration of other people easily. How can I transform this into a divine quality?
- keep yourself receptive to the Supreme in me, to your Inner Pilot, to your own aspiration and inner meditation...
- Question: Does a person have to obtain a temporary suspension of his karma so that he can obtain worthy aspiration?
- Now during that time if they see that he is trying to turn over a new leaf, if he is praying and meditating...
- Question: Are invocations important in meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: This is wrong. It is not true that I am not with you. On the contrary, you have to feel that I am with you and you are with me, always. My consciousness is always with you and with all my disciples. You have to feel that you are within me and I am within you, which is absolutely true. Oneness is already...
- aspiration in our day-to-day activities — such as in a hectic office — as intensely as we feel it when we meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: No doubt, it is a difficult task to maintain intense aspiration while you are involved in multifarious outer activities, but it is not an impossible task. If you become an absolutely sincere seeker, then no matter where you are or with whom you are, you are bound to feel an inner cry. This inner cry can and will...
- Question: The fourth day after I started meditating, I felt that my body was lifting and I was looking
- Sri Chinmoy: What happened is that for a few seconds your soul left your body. You identified with the soul, while your physical consciousness remained below your soul-reality. Right now you do not see your soul-reality. The Divinity which your soul embodies you do not see. But when you become consciously one with the...
- Question: Sometimes I reach a state in meditation where I would like to go beyond.
- Sri Chinmoy: Once you enter into the spiritual life, you have to feel that there is a force that is high, higher, highest, or at least try to remember that this higher force exists. Spirituality means union with a higher force which is infinitely higher than our present physical strength, vital strength or mental strength. If...
- Is it necessary to do so before coming to the Centre to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: It is my fervent request to all my women disciples without exception to pay more attention to their hair, both for cleanliness and for neatness. Even if it is long, the hair should be washed often. Hair needs water. Water signifies consciousness in the spiritual world and also, as you know, water purifies...
- Question: In the last couple of days, when I have been meditating I have been getting a desire not
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- Question: The fourth day after I started meditating I felt that my body was lifting and I was looking
- Sri Chinmoy: What happened is that for a few seconds your soul left your body and you identified with the soul. Your physical consciousness remained below your soul-reality. Right now you do not see your soul-reality. The divinity which your soul embodies you do not see. But when you become consciously one with the soul-reality...
- I had much more aspiration, and my meditations were much better.
Some seekers, for two or three days before their birthdays, do good meditation. … being invited, telephone calls are coming from all over the world — then when do they have the time to meditate … if there is tremendous intensity in the morning, if for two or three minutes the birthday person can meditate … very soulfully, very sincerely, with all the eagerness of his heart, then that person does not have to meditate … I will meditate not only for myself, but also for you all.”...
- Meeting between Sri Chinmoy and senor Arturo Carrion
Sri Chinmoy: Now I teach concentration, meditation and spiritual philosophy. … It was something that will be done in the Olympic Winter Games — holding meditation in the morning for … We have already prepared a place for ecumenical services, but I don’t know about meditation. … If an athlete can pray or meditate or concentrate for a couple of minutes in the morning, then it adds … I will hold meditation there....
- Conversation with a young Cambodian monk[^2]
I understand that you have studied my book, Meditate On. … After Sri Chinmoy meditated in silence with Monk Sopheap, the two spoke about their experiences at a...
- The heart, the mind, the vital and the body[^9]
- With ritual prayer and meditation we can dive deep within and hear the constant message of and from the … Through our prayer and meditation we can embody Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure and then,...
- Scene 1
- (Naren is meditating in his room. Enter Bhavananda.)
NAREN (stands up): Come in. Come in, please. … Since your childhood you have been praying to God and meditating on God....
- Struggle
- You pray so hard, you meditate so hard, you do so many things to please Me, but because I do not fulfil … Then you will stop praying and meditating and not try to keep consciously any connection with Me.”...
- The hermit's only possession
- One evening he was meditating near his hut when two thieves saw him. … When he arrived, he saw that the hermit was once again meditating right in front of his doorway....
- Question: How can one most effectively influence children spiritually?
- You may tell your children, "Get up at seven o'clock and pray and meditate," but the next morning you
If you ask your children to get up and meditate and you yourself do the same, automatically they get...
- Question: If a person is satisfied with his own state of consciousness and has no particular desire to improve it, is this a mistake or a violation of the rights of his soul?
- I am praying, I am concentrating, I am meditating and He is helping me. I am happy with Him. … The other type of satisfaction comes when we are praying, concentrating, meditating, doing our best and...
- The Muslim mendicant
- Is it because you pray and meditate all the time?”
The mendicant said, “No, no, no! … I would have thought, ‘Oh, although you are the Emperor, you don’t pray and meditate....
- Question: Could you please speak about ego and pride?
- This feeling can only come when we pray and meditate. … Without prayer and meditation, we can never claim that realisation as our own; we will only be fooling...
- The heart, the mind, the vital and the body[^67]
- With prayer and meditation we can dive deep within and hear the constant message of and from the soul … Through our prayer and meditation we can embody Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure and then,...
- Question: Recently sports writers have been talking about a feeling in all kinds of athletes where everything slows down. What is it all about?
This morning, if you had a good meditation, if you did not suffer from doubt, fear, anxiety, worry … The following day, your meditation will be better....
- Question: How can I be more obedient?
- At eight o’clock if you have to go to work, you will feel miserable because the first thing — your meditation … going to work — the second thing — you will feel sad about the first thing — that you did not get up to meditate...
- Question: Why do I sometimes want to run away from the spiritual life?
- One day, after you have had a very good meditation, try to identify yourself with others who are not … Your aspiration and meditation.
Everybody is crying for one thing: happiness....
- My omnipresent soul watches[^45]
- Even if you do not meditate well, your singing helps you tremendously, tremendously. … Soulful and prayerful singing is in no way inferior to prayers and meditations....
- The Master's experiences
- pass comments on other spiritual Masters, but it seems that this Master has not spent years praying or meditating … Meditation comes early in the morning. Let us go."...