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- Question: The other night you spoke about our plays that we perform for entertainment here on the Christmas trip. What can we do in our plays to please you more?
- For that you have to pray and meditate, meditate, meditate....
- Lightless soldiers fail
- They had to spend several hours cleaning up after your last outdoor public meditation. … We are sorry, but you will no longer be allowed to hold meditations or give lectures in our town." … But instead of sending for just the disciples who had been in charge of the last meditation, he asked...
- Two instruments: impurity and purity[^8]
- Today purity teaches us how to meditate with a calm, quiet, vacant and tranquil mind. … When we meditate, our Beloved Supreme descends and stands right in front of us. … And when we meditate, we play the role of a magnet; we pull God down to our height, to our consciousness...
- Question: We try to live the spiritual life and then we feel that the forces of the world seem to act apart from us and try to drag us down. When we give in to those forces, something happens and then we lose our contact with the Divine. We get mixed up with the things of the world. We have desires, passions, and we ask God for material things. Then when we try to go back to the spiritual life, we find that we do not deserve it.
- It has meditated for so many years and it could not keep up the continuous prayer and meditation, the … Suppose a man for twenty years has meditated and practised the spiritual life....
- follow so that, even when the disciple is far away, he can get the same force that he feels when he is meditating
- But in the inner world, when somebody meditates and thinks of me for five minutes and offers me his life...
- Question: Guru, if you are sincerely getting up and praying and meditating, why is it that the soul
- Perhaps He will change our mind and tell us to offer some other prayer or do some other type of meditation...
- Question: At the public meditation you talked about the crying child within.
- Sri Chinmoy: Inside my Transcendental picture you want to imagine a crying child? No, that is not the way. My Transcendental as such is not crying. In a sense, you can say it is crying for the perfection of the human beings, but my Transcendental is full of infinite compassion, love and light. When I spoke about the crying...
- Question: When you meditate you become very, very still.
- Sri Chinmoy: The rest of the time I shout and bark and become restlessness-prince, but at that time you want to know how I become poise incarnate. The physical has to be a perfect instrument for manifesting the inner wealth that comes from beyond the physical. Take the eyes, for example. When I offer light, I offer it through...
- Question: Guru, when you give us grades for our meditation, what scale do you use?
- Sri Chinmoy: It is your present capacity, not the ultimate. If I give you grades in comparison to the ultimate Goal, you will get 0, because your standard is so low. The Goal is not, say, 20 miles away and you are now at one mile. If that were true, then you would get some grade. But the Goal is so far, so far. It is a million...
- Question: When creative people or serious artists enter into the spiritual life, sometimes they lose their creative inspiration because spirituality is so vast that it seems no longer valuable to them to make their own style of art. Or they have to compromise their spirituality just to survive as artists. I see that they often do not seriously continue to create their own art. Is there any way to utilise creativity to make the maximum progress in spirituality, instead of taking them as two different things? How can we unite these two activities into one?[^3]
- that we get from creativity cannot be compared to the satisfaction that we get from our prayer and meditation … But when we have prayed or meditated most soulfully for five minutes, we feel that our entire being — … right, if you cannot see Me or feel Me everywhere, then see Me in your prayers and feel Me in your meditations … From spirituality, from prayer and meditation, we have to learn everything. … entered into the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at the age of eleven and a half or twelve years, I prayed and meditated...
- I meditate on scenic forests, taking in the view of flowers and trees.
- Sri Chinmoy: When you are in the country, when you look at a tree, when you look at the flowers and blossoms and foliage, you get joy, tremendous joy. But when you come back to the city, you do not get any joy. First of all, you have to know that the country is all nature. There, everything tries to be pure, outwardly purer...
- Question: I find public meditations very hard for me. I come in feeling beautiful.
- Sri Chinmoy: It is not others' impurity or any other negative force that is entering into you. No. Your difficulty is that when you sit in front, you try to pull far beyond your capacity. When I am on stage, the whole stage is flooded with light. When you sit in front of me and look at me, you try to pull. It is as if you are...
- Question: Once during meditation I had the experience that I was neither inside nor outside.
- Sri Chinmoy: This is a good experience. You were neither inside nor outside. Then where were you? When you are not inside, that means you are not inside your highest reality. And when you are not outside, that means you are not in your outgoing energy. The inside has the message of purity and the outside has the message of...
- Are spiritual people somewhat abnormal?[^25]
- But if each day we pray and meditate soulfully, then we come to realise that the most important thing
The first thing we have to do in our life is pray and meditate. … Then we try to offer the Light that we have received from our prayer and meditation to the world around … He will meditate there for five minutes or half an hour, and then if he does not see an iota of Light...
- The role of justice-light
- Kali Kumar darkened the room and everyone meditated in silence for a few minutes....
- Science surrenders to spirituality
- His disciples now pray and meditate in front of that picture....
- Alexander The Great And Alexander The Lazy
- To be worthy of God's Love, Affection, Fondness, Compassion and Blessings, we must pray and meditate....
- The Spiritual Overdose
- He got so much inspiration from the sacred books that he wanted only to be absorbed in prayer and meditation...
- Scene 1
- Every day you will be served food in your rooms, and you will spend all your time in meditation....
- Question: Two mornings ago, when I woke up, the first thought that came into my mind was, why did God make it necessary for us to sleep?
- And, if you cannot get up at six o'clock to meditate, then get up at seven or eight....
- Question: Sometimes when I am attacked by doubt, my first reaction is that I won't let it enter. But it comes back every five minutes. I want to know what is the best thing to do to put it away permanently.
- You are praying and meditating, and here a monkey is constantly bothering you....
- Question: Guru, I've been earning my living through music for about ten years, but now it's very difficult for me to take money for my art. I feel that I only want to serve the Supreme through music.
I pray with you, I meditate with you, and then, out of your love and gratitude, some of you give me...
- The pilgrim seekers
- If one has been aspiring and meditating in previous lifetimes, then there is no reason why he cannot...
- Question: How can a person feel a longing for God and, at the same time, have patience? It seems like a contradiction.
- If we are seekers, we have to pray and meditate. Sincerity is of paramount importance....
- Question: I read that Sri Ramakrishna, just by his touch, was able to send some of his disciples into trance and ecstasy. How was it possible?[^11]
Question: A few years ago you were saying that the Vedic Seers meditated for years to achieve a certain...
- Sound and silence[^4]
- I devotedly pray to my Lord Supreme and soulfully meditate on Him for all the answers....
- Temptation-power almost succeeds
- On the contrary, I shall help you to meditate all day and night. Let us get married....
- The conqueror of time and space
Shyama Charan said to him, “Let me enter into the adjacent room and meditate for some time....
- Chapter VIII: The Imperishable Infinite
- His mind is placed in the heart, He meditates on Me. AUM he soulfully chants....
- Question: Is it possible for us to be consciously aspiring and yet somehow not be aspiring in parts of the being that we are unconscious of?
- Early in the morning, when you pray and meditate, it may be only your heart’s spiritual exercise....