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- 13 January
- Then I began meditating in the Meditation Hall....
- A lot of times, when you are meditating one by one on all the disciples, I notice that my mind is wandering
- Think of me or meditate on me; or if you can't think and you can't meditate, then just imagine....
- Question: Could you explain what inner hunger is?
- In your case, since you are a sincere seeker, if you pray to God or meditate on God for Peace, Light … So if you pray or meditate, then you can easily hold the Light and Peace that descends....
- Question: How can we all manifest love more?
- and he will be so grateful to me that I have awakened him, for it is high time for him to pray and meditate … We want to knock at someone's door and wake him up so that he can meditate....
- There is no God
- NAREN
BHAVANANDA
BHUPEN (YOUNGER BROTHER OF NAREN) (Naren is meditating in his room. … Since your childhood you have been praying to God and meditating on God....
- Question: Sometimes when I approach you in person or when I try to approach you in meditation, I
- Sri Chinmoy: Absolutely!
Question: I feel that I need to go towards sincerity before I can have any gratitude. I feel that if I admit I do not have this spontaneous feeling of gratitude, then I am being sincere. If I feel gratitude only on the surface, I think that it is not real.
Sri Chinmoy: It is real. Indians say that...
- How can a disciple feel from a distance the same force or magnetism that he feels when he is meditating
- But in the inner world, when somebody meditates and thinks of me for five minutes and when he offers...
- What can I do to enter into my inner being and feel my inner self more in my daily meditations?
- Sri Chinmoy: Try to think that you have three things in your possession: the soul, the heart and the mind. In your case one possession, the mind, the intellectual mind, is suffering because it has been given very good training at Yale and now you are neglecting it. Try to take the mind as a possession, but feel that it is a...
- Question: Guru, sometimes when I meditate or when I am confused, I hear a voice within myself that
- Sri Chinmoy: Your soul is giving you the message, and your soul is in direct communication with me, with my height, with my light, with my inner capacities. It is my message which your soul is expressing to your physical mind. If the message comes in pindrop silence, and if you accept it soulfully and devotedly, then it will be...
- Question: In our Centre we have meditations on Wednesdays and Sundays. … You told us that Wednesday is the compulsory meditation night, so I wanted to clarify whether that was
- Sri Chinmoy: Every rule admits of exceptions. If one or two disciples cannot come on Wednesday, but they do come on Sunday, that is fine. What can you do? There will always be problems, and then we have to deal with them. If they come regularly on Sunday, that is all right. But if they do not come regularly, then this is not...
- Question: Quite often I find that when I look at students who are standing in front of me and meditating
Again, it may happen that a saint or a saintly person has sat at the foot of the tree and meditated...
- Question: When we are giving meditation classes, how can we make it clear to new seekers why there
- Sri Chinmoy: It is a matter of consciousness. Our entire philosophy is founded upon consciousness. If you want to remain in an undivine consciousness, then you will always be a beggar. Already spiritual seekers have enough problems, but if they start thinking of girlfriends or boyfriends, then they will descend and descend....
- Question: Guru, you are always telling us that our souls have the capacity to punish us, and that they will punish us if we displease them. I am wondering, if our souls have so much power that they can actually do physical harm to our body, why do they not appear to have the power to inspire us?
- Since you joined the path, from that very day, who inspired you to come and meditate? … When you are in a good consciousness, when you have a good meditation, at that time you are bound to
The joy that you get after six months' meditation, all of a sudden one day you will receive at a function … When you have a very powerful meditation, on that day once again you are resolved, you are determined … That very day, when you do not have obstacles to your meditation, that is the victory for the soul....
- Wisdom-light
- When we pray and meditate, we enter into the reality of silence, and this gives us the opportunity to … We discriminate the one from the other by praying and meditating, by trying and crying. … When we pray and meditate, we go deep within and hear the dictates of our soul. … But when we pray and meditate, we come to feel that God’s Fulfilment is our fulfilment, that God’s Fulfilment … When we transform them on the strength of our conscious concentration, meditation and contemplation,...
- Question: When people have an unproductive or negative thought pattern that goes around and around inside their head, and they have been caught by it for many years, how can they get rid of it?
- They may get angry with God for ten days, so they will stop praying and meditating. … But then, although they do not know how or why, again they will start praying and meditating. … But in a few years He may say, “Meditate, meditate! Forget about writing!” … Like that, a day came when Sri Aurobindo gave up writing, dictating and all other activities only to meditate...
- Wisdom-Light[^6]
- When we pray and meditate, we enter into the reality of silence, and this gives us the opportunity to … We discriminate the one from the other by praying and meditating, by trying and crying. … When we pray and meditate we go deep within and hear the dictates of our soul. … But when we pray and meditate, we come to feel that God’s fulfilment is our fulfilment, that God’s fulfilment … When we transform them on the strength of our conscious concentration, meditation and contemplation,...
- Talk at the beginning of the New Year[^13]
- Those who are coming here faithfully, and meditating devotedly, must feel our presence, our spiritual … their rescue, but they can't receive my help because their receptivity is poor due to their irregular meditation … Similarly, every day if you pray and meditate, you develop your psychic power, your inner power. … Look at those who are coming regularly and devotedly, doing selfless service here and attending meditation
Now before we enter into meditation, this is my last request to the sincere seekers: be regular, be...
- Interview with the San Francisco examiner[^7]
- spoke to the authorities and got permission for me to be of service to the United Nations by conducting meditations … Twice a week we pray and meditate there. Sometimes I give talks and answer spiritual questions. … If we are physically fit, then early in the morning we will be able to get up and meditate. … and other physical ailments, then we will not be inclined to get up early in the morning and pray and meditate … If you can pray and meditate soulfully, you don’t have to go through these traditional four stages of...
- Initiation and the Master
If God wants to, he may appear before a seeker during the seeker's meditation or in a vision or a … Along with the mantra, the Guru gives him instruction about how to sit properly for meditation, how to … initiated people occultly from miles away while they were in a very high state of consciousness during meditation
But the Master meditated on the night-soil and entered into the very heart of it, finally reaching...
- How to solve world problems
- We can solve world problems by our heart’s prayer and by our life’s meditation. … Meditation is our conscious manifestation of God’s illumination on earth. … We meditate in order to bring down the Transcendental Height and manifest it here on earth. … But when he prays and meditates, when he aspires, he comes to realise that multiplicity is alive, multiplicity...
- How to solve world problems[^6]
- We can solve world problems by our heart’s prayer and by our life’s meditation. … Meditation is our conscious manifestation of God’s illumination on earth. … We meditate in order to bring down the transcendental Height and manifest it here on earth. … But when he prays and meditates, when he aspires, he comes to realise that multiplicity is alive, multiplicity...
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- Chinmoy received from Leonard Bernstein was a letter which was hand delivered to "Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation...
- Question: How does one bring the mind under control?
- Here we shall meditate and energise ourselves with the inner light of the soul....
- 23 May 1995, General Assembly Hall Lobby, United Nations, New York, New York
- During this time I have been privileged to participate in a number of activities of the Peace Meditation...
- 5 October 1995, Centre Sportif du Bout du Monde, Geneva, Switzerland
- having given me the golden opportunity to be of service to the United Nations through my prayers and meditations...
- Question: If everyone followed the spiritual path they would reach a time when they would give up their sexual lives. If everybody did that, there would be no more incarnations!
- If you had been able to enter into the highest kind of meditation, you would have been able to envision...
- Grace
- We will say, "If I meditate for five hours, God's Grace will descend like a drop of honey."...
- Peace: God's dream-reality's oneness-boat, fulness-shore
- Each seeker, during his Heaven-ascending prayers and earth-transforming meditations, must learn this...
- Question: What is the relationship of the individual soul to the soul of the country that it is born into?
- So, the soul of each country meditates upon the highest Reality to get souls which will be of help to...
- Sri Chinmoy: The moment I see you, I see a sea of peace, a sea of joy. I see your heart of purity.
- Every day, in my most powerful meditations, I treasure you inside my heart. Mr....