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- Scene 1
- Ganesha sits and meditates.) … Let me meditate and see if I can get some brilliant idea. (He meditates.)...
- Inner communication with the Master
- At that time, even if you do not take a shower, your meditation will automatically go high. … If you meditate in front of my Transcendental picture, I am aware if you have not properly bathed or … What you need is God-realisation and that you will gradually get from meditating on my Transcendental...
- Talk to the Ponce Centre
- True satisfaction dawns on us only when we pray to God, meditate on God and try to please Him. Why? … By pleasing Him first and fulfilling Him in His own Way, that is, through our prayer and meditation, … We discover our infinite Reality only through our conscious prayer and meditation....
- Question: Could a creature of the Supreme Omnipotent, Omniscient, obtain a temporary suspension of his karma so that he can obtain worthy progress? What are the requisites thereof?
- forces are observing him and seeing if he is trying to turn over a new leaf and if he is praying and meditating … Today they offer meditation at the Connecticut Centre where Akuti is president. … She started meditating at nine o’clock....
- Sri Chinmoy and Pir Vilayat Khan[^2]
I have come here to share with you soulful meditation and also I have come here to be in the company … With your kind permission I will hold meditation.
[Sri Chinmoy meditated with the assembly.]...
- Who teaches whom the knowledge of Brahman!
- He meditated for some time and felt that what the king said was true — that not only is Brahman inside … It is in the meditation of the seeker who has studied the Vedas and who is applying the Vedic truths … Only by one who applies the Vedic truths in his life — in his concentration, meditation and contemplation...
- 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...
- Question: Guru, I heard somewhere that if we only meditate on the higher chakras in our body, then
- The most important thing is to pray and meditate and please the Supreme in His own Way....
- Question: Often when I know I am coming to meditation, I develop a swollen gland or a headache.
- Sri Chinmoy: The hostile forces attack us because deep inside our being, our consecration to the Supreme is not yet complete. We are not yet sure of what we actually want. When we have not yet fully decided what we are going to eat — either a mango or some other fruit — the hostile forces come and stand between our desire and...
- Question: I have a Master in India who told me to meditate on my navel chakra.
- Sri Chinmoy: You are in a boat that belongs to somebody. So your Master would be the right person to help you and guide you. If you are following a path, I feel I should not interfere. Your own Master knows infinitely better than I do what is right for you. I can only advise my own students and those who are not following any...
- Question: During meditation I have the feeling that there is a stranger inside me looking out.
- Sri Chinmoy: It is quite usual. It is nothing abnormal. At that time you are not identified with your body-consciousness. When you do this, you become the observer. That is to say, the soul-consciousness is observing the physical consciousness. When you feel that someone else is observing through your eyes it is the...
- Tribute To Dag Hammarskjold[^22]
[A short meditation follows.] … On the anniversary of Dag Hammarskjold's birth, 29 July 1976, the United Nations Meditation Group dedicated...
- 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 he is the Emperor, he does not pray or meditate....
- So many experiences[^7]
- Each year I would open the Games with a meditation. … Then Sudhahota Carl Lewis sang the national anthem while I meditated....
- 6 September 1989
- On 6 September 1989 Sudhahota attended one of Sri Chinmoy’s Wednesday night public meditations at P.S
[Sri Chinmoy meditates with Sudhahota, Narada and Anukampa, and the singers perform the “Carl Lewis...
- The Invocation is our life-breath
- Many years ago I used to meditate in Sri Aurobindo’s room early in the morning. … Inwardly I was seated in his room meditating while hearing my spiritual children sing the song which...
- God and the human Guru
When I tell my disciples to meditate on my transcendental picture, I take full responsibility for … You have talked with me so many times; you have meditated with me so many times and many, many times...
- Question: When I make a resolution, how can I have the determination to follow through with it?
- If we set the alarm clock in order to get up early in the morning to pray and meditate, then we have … He has kept us on the path, that He keeps us from time to time thinking of Him, praying to Him and meditating...
- Truth[^3]
- Truth is the fragrance of our meditation-soul. … We place this lotus at the Feet of our Beloved Supreme, and then, while we are meditating, we smell its...
- 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...
- 4. Introduction and award presentation[^1]
- Every day I pray and meditate to become a better human being so that I can be of better service to mankind … interfaith programme at the United Nations in 1975 at which Sri Chinmoy offered the opening silent meditation...
- Scene I
- Utanka is meditating. Enter Krishna.)
UTANKA: Krishna, Krishna, you have come.
UTANKA: No, I have been praying and meditating here all the time. I have heard no news....
- Truth[^95]
- Truth is the fragrance of our meditation-soul. … We place this lotus at the Feet of our Beloved Supreme and then, while we are meditating, we smell its...
- Question: Sometimes I feel that I am meditating well in my heart, but my head is resisting.
- Sri Chinmoy: The only disease you have is that you feel that I don't care for you. When that disease is cured, then you will be cured. When that disease is cured, there can be no sickness to bother you. A few other disciples also have this chronic disease. It is a powerful disease, the feeling that your Guru doesn't love you,...
- does it mean when one says that an aspirant has reached a consciousness above his imagination during meditation
- Sri Chinmoy: He is conscious of the Grace, but he cannot conceive it with his mind. Imagination is in the mind. With the mind, if we think that we are carrying something very deep, very vast and very profound, still that thought of vastness and profundity is next to nothing in comparison with the experience that we have had or...
- Interviewer: You conduct meditations twice a week at the United Nations in New York.
- Sri Chinmoy: I have not come into this world to change it. I have come only to love the world in such a way that you and I and everyone else can work together. I pray to God to give me the capacity to be of service to Him. One individual can never, never change the world, but collectively everybody has to work together....
- The beauty and duty of India's Soul[^3]
- But during our meditation, if we can have the vision of Brahman as the Infinite Self, then it becomes … We must meditate on the horse, on the qualities of the horse, and invoke these divine qualities to enter … But one has to see the qualities of the horse and inwardly meditate on the divinely fulfilling qualities … It is from one’s own concentration and meditation that one will get the qualities which the horse offers … The Master said, “You have to practise meditation for a long time.”...
- The beauty and duty of India's soul
- But during our meditation, if we can have the vision of Brahman as the Infinite Self, then it becomes … We must meditate on the horse, on the qualities of the horse, and invoke these divine qualities to enter … But one has to see the qualities of the horse and inwardly meditate on the divinely fulfilling qualities … It is from one’s own concentration and meditation that one will get the qualities which the horse offers … The Master said, “You have to practise meditation for a long time.”...
- The Upanishads — the beauty and duty of India's soul
- But during our meditation, if we can have the vision of Brahman as the Infinite Self, then it becomes … We must meditate on the horse, on the qualities of the horse and invoke these divine qualities to enter … But one has to see the qualities of the horse and inwardly meditate on the divinely fulfilling qualities … It is from one’s own concentration and meditation that one will get the qualities which the horse offers … “You have to practice meditation for a long time.”...
- Question: What should we do if we are meditating and we know we are not receptive, just sort of sitting
- Sri Chinmoy: There are many ways to develop receptivity or to get immediate receptivity. Two ways I can tell you. One way is to repeat the word “Supreme” over and over again, as fast as possible — just as fast as the Indian musicians say “Sa, re, ga, ma, pa, da, ni, sa.” But it must be done in silence. First select one place in...