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- Question: While meditating recently, I was overcome by some negative things that I know belong to
- Sri Chinmoy: Unfortunately, you entered into the subconscious plane. You have two rooms in your consciousness right now. One room is very clean, tidy and full of light. The other room is dark, dirty and messy. One room you have kept very clean and pure; that is your heart. The other room you have kept full of unimportant,...
- Question: The moment I sit down to meditate, all kinds of silly or ugly thoughts come into my mind
- Sri Chinmoy: First you have to determine whether the thoughts that are attacking you are coming from the outer world or from deep within. In the beginning, it is difficult, I must say, to distinguish the thoughts that are coming from outside from those that are arising from inside you. But gradually you will be able to feel...
- exactly, but it was like sinking down into something, and when I came out it was like coming out of meditation
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- Interviewer: I understand that you have approximately one hundred meditation centres throughout the
- Sri Chinmoy: My philosophy is very simple — love, devotion and surrender. Our philosophy is based on divine love, divine devotion and divine surrender. We love God without expecting anything from God. We devote ourselves to God’s Will and we surrender our earth-bound life at every moment to His Heaven-free Consciousness. While...
- Saroja Douglas: Why do many people feel attracted to meditation when it is represented as an intellectual
- Sri Chinmoy: Many people are not aware of what the term ‘devotion’ means and they misinterpret it. They feel that devotion is a type of slavery; they feel that to touch the feet of someone is devotion. But this is not true. One is not touching somebody else’s feet; one is devoting himself to a higher cause, a higher reality. So...
- Question: What should we do if we are meditating and we know we are not receptive, just sort of
- 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...
- Celibacy
- It takes time; it takes aspiration and meditation. … If somebody aspires for a minute, meditates for a minute and remains in the animal consciousness in the … He must gradually transcend the vital life through years of serious aspiration and meditation, the inner … Celibacy is not for the so-called aspirant who meditates once a week and then has nothing to do with...
- Why do I have to become spiritual?[^20]
When he prays or meditates on God, the seeker uses the divine instrument called surrender. … So I have to think of the soul or meditate on the soul first.
Next I think of my heart. … I have to meditate on the mind with the idea of expanding and illumining it. … The spiritual person enters into the heart-room, sees the diamond, touches the diamond, meditates on...
- Life-awakening experiences[^7]
That night I entered into my highest meditation. … When I enter into my highest meditation, I know everything. … When we do not enter into meditation, we are like absolute beggars. … In my meditation I saw that this girl was a disciple of the Sri Ramakrishna Ashram and a devotee of Sarada...
- God in nature
- In your case music has been your prayer, your meditation, your oneness with Nature, with God....
- Question: Does any change take place in your body when the divine forces enter the physical?
- Many people have seen me as a small child when they have meditated with me....
- Question: Where is God and how do we fulfil Him?
Every day when you meditate, try to feel that you are inside the Heart of God, the Inner Pilot....
- The Master's inner life: The Master's miracle-power
- But when we pray and meditate, the joy and peace that we receive, is that not a miracle?...
- Akbar is superior to Indra
- So he tries to pray, he tries to meditate, and gradually he increases his knowledge and inner wisdom....
- Scene 5
- Now, I have meditated, and I have occult powers....
- Akbar is superior to Indra
- So he tries to pray, he tries to meditate, and gradually he increases his knowledge and inner wisdom....
- Question: Guru, in one of your plays there was a king who was jealous of a spiritual Master. So he went and realised God, and after he realised God, he was still jealous. How is that possible?
- Only when they meditate, they enter into the soul’s purity and perfection....
- Part VI[^2]
- While you were meditating with me, right from the very beginning your inner man came to the fore....
- Photo Caption
- Sublime meditative poise and tangible peace emanate from this statue, which embodies the living consciousness...
- Question: In the conflict between intuition and common sense, which one should we listen to?
- For you, it is quite common to pray and meditate and follow a spiritual Master....
- Silence[^3]
- When we aspire, pray and meditate, God in us becomes a roaring lion....
- Reincarnation
When you meditate on your previous incarnations, if you see or feel that you were not an important...
- Question: Was God born?
- Every day early in the morning I meditate and concentrate on you and I see that God is most pleased with...
- Question: How can we be more attached to pleasing God?
- When we start praying and meditating, we try to please God....
- Question: Is the practice of sports contrary to spiritual tradition?
- are spiritual, you cannot do physical things, and if you are physically active, you cannot pray and meditate...
- Justice-light shines
- Kali Kumar turned off the light and they meditated for a few minutes....
- Question: All around us we hear of wars and conflicts. I want to know if these conflicts are all part of the divine order?
- You have prayed, you have meditated, you have done everything right here....
- Appendix: these quotes, from other writings of Sri Chinmoy, were included in the first editions.
I meditated on God. God became my real God....
- Question: If someone is a sincere seeker, should he follow a specific path?
- In the spiritual life you need aspiration; you need to practise concentration, meditation and contemplation...
- Scene 2
- I will go and meditate on the bank of the Sarayu, and when the time comes I shall jump into the river...