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Question: Why is it that in all the world there are only a few spiritual seekers? And why is it that only perhaps a few of those will ever see God?
Not only those who are praying to God and meditating on God but also those who have faith in God are...
From the book The giver and the receiver
Question: Does being conscious of former life experiences help us in our road to self-discovery?
So the best thing is to pray and meditate....
From the book Consciousness: God-Journey to man, man-journey to God
Question: Should we do selfless service if we cannot do it in a good consciousness, with surrender? Should we go ahead and do this service even though we can't do away with our negative feelings about it?
difficult to do selfless service devotedly and soulfully all the time, then that individual should pray and meditate...
From the book Selfless service-light
Temptation-world and illumination-world
During meditation, if you have impure thoughts, the best thing is to throw them into me....
From the book Illumination-world
Question: How can we build our intuitive power?[^16]
When you pray and meditate, if you try to enter into the heart or bring the heart to the fore, you can...
From the book Earth-bound journey and Heaven-bound journey
Question: What is the difference between an ordinary learning situation and spiritual study?
The teacher can inwardly offer the message of how to concentrate, meditate and contemplate....
From the book Canada aspires, Canada receives, Canada achieves, part 2
Question: Sometimes I feel a sense of insecurity in my heart. Could you please tell me how I can overcome this feeling?
From now on during your prayer and meditation, please try to offer yourself to God as His instrument,...
From the book Canada aspires, Canada receives, Canada achieves, part 1
My tennis coach, Ron Rebhuhn[^33]

I am a man of prayers and meditations....

From the book My golden children
Question: Thailand is a Buddhist country. Whereas we emphasise God and the soul on our path, the Buddhist philosophy on these matters is one of silence. Usually this silence is interpreted as meaning that God may or may not exist and that the soul may or may not exist. It would be very helpful for us to have your word on what the Buddha meant or intended.
These are not dictionary words; they are realities that we can realise through prayer and meditation....
From the book Lord Buddha's Compassion-Hand
Question: Do those who follow your path have to give up their religion?
If we pray and we meditate, we accept all religions as our very own and place them in the very Heart...
From the book Self-discovery and world-mastery
Lost in London[^4]
Why did I have to meditate while running instead of paying more attention to the landmarks?...
From the book Run and become, become and run, part 17
Question: Is there a spiritual method of self-analysis?
But when we enter into deep spiritual meditation, when we are far along in the spiritual life, we are...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Is pain necessary?
But when we go deep within, on the strength of our highest meditation, we discover that Delight was our...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Do you believe that a human being can realise God and become one with Him here on this material plane, which is so ignorant and dark?
Only here, in the physical body, can we pray and meditate and realise the Highest....
From the book The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi
Interviewer: I accept the fact that you are a Master, a Guru, a teacher. As a Christian, what am I expected to do, or what, in fact, would you teach me that would deepen my inner silence, my spiritual life?
But on the strength of our prayer and meditation, there comes a time when we realise the highest part...
From the book My Rose Petals, part 7
Question: I would like to know why your students keep your picture on their shrines.
feel they can get more inspiration from a mountain top or from the sun or the moon, and then they will meditate...
From the book Fourteen American mothers and fourteen American daughters with Sri Chinmoy
The rich man's sons
He remains quiet and always prays and meditates, for he knows that this world has nothing to give him...
From the book Is your mind ready to cry? Is your heart ready to smile? part 6
The king and the sage
The sage said, “I pray to God and meditate on God. He is the only thing that I need....
From the book Is your mind ready to cry? Is your heart ready to smile? part 4
Mr. Ed Belville: Sri Chinmoy, the question in my mind is: why do we need a teacher or guru? Or is it important to have a teacher to follow the spiritual path?
a teacher is inevitable because the spiritual teacher has to teach the student how to pray, how to meditate...
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 1
Question: You spoke of a Guru as someone to help make a short cut in the search for realisation. I find it hard in myself to channel myself in the search. Could you recommend or direct me somehow in a channelling of my energies toward self-realisation, because I find it hard to direct myself in that way.
Just as you take exercises every day or almost every day, to develop your muscles, you should likewise meditate...
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 1
Question: I find that during races my aspiration varies a lot, sometimes going up, sometimes going down. Is there any way that I can maintain my aspiration throughout the whole race?
Before the race starts, meditate most soulfully for five minutes....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 6, June 1980
I don't meditate as much as I should, I don't do anything right, and still you are so nice to me.
Another type prays or meditates to please the Supreme in me fifty per cent of the time, and fifty per...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-4, No. 2, 27 February 1977
Question: You spoke of a Guru as someone to kind of make a shortcut in the search for realisation. I find it hard in myself to channel myself in the search. Could you recommend or direct me somehow in a channelling of my energies toward self-realisation, because I find it hard to direct myself in that way.
Just as you take exercises every day or almost every day, to develop your muscles, you should likewise meditate...
From the book AUM — Vol. 4, No. 7, 27 Feb. 1969
Akbar is superior to Indra
Then he feels miserable and tries to pray, he tries to meditate....
From the book AUM — Vol. 8, No. 9, April 1973
Question: How can we build our intuitive power?
When you pray and meditate, if you try to enter into the heart or bring the heart to the fore, you can...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-2, No. 6, 27 June 1975
Question: Why is it that in all the world there are only a few spiritual seekers? And why is it that only perhaps a few of those will ever see God?
Not only those who are praying to God and meditating on God but also those who have faith in God — that...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-3, No. 2, 27 February 1976
Question: Sri Chinmoy, the question in my mind is: why do we need a teacher or guru? Or is it important to have a teacher to follow the spiritual path?
a teacher is inevitable because the spiritual teacher has to teach the student how to pray, how to meditate...
From the book AUM — Vol. 3, No.11,12, June — 27 July 1968
The Master's self-appointed emissary
distant Centre, the Master always used to ask him to come to the front of the room after the evening meditation … understand why you told a man to leave his wife and six children and go off to the Himalayan caves to meditate

Afterwards, when the meditation was over and all the disciples were moving around, Satyavama approached...

From the book The Master's self-appointed emissary
In search of a perfect disciple

He decided to enter into deep meditation, and he did. … While he was in a profound state of meditation, he saw in front of himself his own figure, his own face

One day in meditation he went very, very deep within, and as he entered into his highest trance, he...

From the book In search of a perfect disciple
Exposed in the inner world
The Master had spent many years in meditation and spiritual practice in India, and he had achieved God-realisation … We say, 'I have been praying and meditating for so long! … But in the inner world, at two o'clock in the morning when I meditate on them, some of the disciples...
From the book A lost friend
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Books found: 17

Meditation
The meditation-world
Concentration, meditation, contemplation
Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
The hour of meditation
My meditation-heart
Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
The mind and the heart in meditation
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow's Noon
Fifty-Four Morning Prayer-Cries and Morning Meditation-Smiles
My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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