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- Oneness[^3]
- When we meditate, we feel that we are of God. Our sincerity leads us along the right path. … Our meditation brings the goal nearer to us.
Here we are all seekers....
- Question: Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from?
- On the strength of their inner urge, they prayed and meditated. … So when they prayed or meditated, they invoked different cosmic gods for different things....
- Nothing but ridicule for a saint
- The doctor came home full of greatest delight and said to his wife, "It is not in vain that we two meditate … Just because you and I both meditate a divine force has intervened."...
- Oneness[^14]
- When we meditate, we feel that we are of God. Our sincerity leads us along the right path. … Our meditation brings the Goal nearer to us.
Here we are all seekers....
- The Brahman of the Upanishads
- When we meditate on Brahman in the heart, in the silent recesses of the heart, our life becomes pure … That is to say, through regular concentration, meditation and contemplation, the seeker enters into the...
- Question: When we have Joy Days, what should we do?
- Of course, meditation has to be there. … There should be meditation at least three or four times at Joy Days, even if it is only for ten minutes...
- Devotion and familiarity
- Sometimes when I leave my shoes outside the meditation hall, I see that some of my disciples rearrange … Early in the morning when we meditate, we have to feel that we are a river....
- Question: Why do we have to pass through sad experiences such as suffering and sorrow?
- We can prevent unconscious mistakes only through our aspiration, prayer and meditation. … Often we think of God, pray to God and meditate on God and then we see that all sorts of problems arise...
- Question: Do you think that an aspirant needs a living Guru in order to realise God?
- Again, if the seeker is doing something wrong in his meditation, he will be in a position to correct … Similarly, in the spiritual life, the Master teaches the student how to pray, how to meditate, how to...
- The thief's gold cup
- Most of the time he just stays at the foot of a tree near his small house and prays and meditates. … I pray to God and meditate on God. Why do I need this kind of expensive thing?...
- Life energy victory's crown is yours[^3]
- When we meditate, we have to discriminate. What are we meditating on?...
- Divine duty and supreme reward[^2]
- God meditates on His Duty. Man loves his reward. Man cries for his reward. … Divine duty is to meditate on God in Man. Divine duty is to see God in Man....
- The Upanishads — "The Brahman of the Upanishads"[^2]
- limited mind, sophisticated mind, unaspiring mind, our life becomes sheer frustration; but when we meditate … That is to say, through regular concentration, meditation and contemplation the seeker enters into the...
- So, how can we be expected to get up early and meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: They go to bed early? Dearest one, you are mistaken. In some ashrams I have visited they go to bed at eleven or twelve or later because every night there is some function or activity. And in many cases they also have to go to work or to school early every morning. In some Indian ashrams, for example in the...
- Question: Guru, at times in my meditation I get a feeling of great strength rising from my heart,
- Sri Chinmoy: You have to know from where this confidence is coming. Is it confidence from the vital, or from the heart and the soul? If you have confidence in your vital before the heart is totally purified and illumined, it will amount to destructive aggression. Many people have confidence: the boxer has confidence, the...
- Question: On my birthday, I usually feel that the most important thing is my meditation with you,
- Sri Chinmoy: Whatever people want to do to celebrate your birthday, they should be allowed to do. On your birthday if somebody else wants to express joy because you are a member of humanity, a member of a spiritual family, then they should be given the freedom to do so. On a birthday, joy is freely available. If somebody gets...
- programmes here and we may feel more inclined to stay at home watching the TV programmes than to go to meditations
- Sri Chinmoy: That is not a hindrance at all; it is a lack of wisdom. If I have money, that does not mean that I shall squander it all the time. I have to know when to use it and how to use it for a right purpose, for a divine purpose. Similarly, there are many things that might distract me or prevent me from following the...
- Question: When you have a personal problem which you wish to solve through your meditation, how can
- Sri Chinmoy: One way to know the difference is to feel that the emotional vital has one voice and the soul has another voice. Let us take the vital as one runner and the soul as another runner. In the case of the vital runner, he runs very fast at the very beginning, with excessive excitement and enthusiasm, but he does not...
- Question: When you have a personal problem which you wish to solve through your meditation, how can
- Sri Chinmoy: One way to know the difference is to feel that the emotional vital has one voice and the soul has another voice. Let us take the vital as one runner and the soul as another runner. In the case of the vital runner, he runs very fast at the very beginning, with excessive excitement and enthusiasm, but he does not...
- If we slept for 2 or 3 and a half hours at night and got up for a half hour and read your books or meditated
- Sri Chinmoy: Unfortunately, it may happen that only after three hours you enter into a deeper part of sleep. For the first three hours you have not slept properly at all, and then you are entering into a very nourishing and refreshing type of sleep, but mechanically you have set the alarm for three hours and you are getting up...
- Oneness-heart
- Then I started doing other spiritual disciplines: concentration, meditation, contemplation and so forth … But if we pray and meditate, we clearly see that God has a special purpose when He takes away our dear … Again, by virtue of our prayers and meditations, we can establish an access to that particular world....
- The beauty and purity of gratitude
- For a few seconds during their meditation if they want to identify themselves with their friends, dear
So, dear ones, if you want to get rid of your undivine qualities, you do have to pray and meditate … But along with your prayer and meditation, there is a supreme secret, the secret of secrets, to conquer...
- The foolish, the clever and the wise[^10]
- The one who decided that I was not a realised soul now thinks, ‘When I used to meditate with the Master … , I used to have very deep meditations. … But now that I am meditating alone, I feel nothing....
- Music and religion[^2]
Before he plays, the seeker-musician soulfully meditates so that he can fathom the ocean-depths.
In religion there is soulful prayer and fruitful meditation. … Fruitful meditation illumines our human heart....
- Music and religion[^94]
Before he plays, the seeker-musician soulfully meditates so that he can fathom the ocean-depths.
In religion there is soulful prayer and fruitful meditation. … Fruitful meditation illumines our human heart....
- Three hundred book jubilee
- In the morning you have a special hour for meditation, but you can read my writings anytime — early in … day at the United Nations when the General Assembly began, the president stood up and said, “Let us meditate … A day will come when lines from my poetry, meditations and soulful writings will be quoted like Indian...
- Short story — the foolish, the clever and the wise[^2]
- The one who decided that I was not a realised soul now thinks, ‘When I used to meditate with the Master … , I used to have very deep meditations. … But now that I am meditating alone, I feel nothing....
- Poetry-Reading at the Jharna-Kala Gallery[^7]
- When we pray and meditate, we grow into divinity. … When we don’t pray and meditate, we remain undivine. … But just because we don’t pray and meditate all the time, we cannot say that we are unspiritual....
- Question: Are you speaking of this incarnation of yours?
Four or five years ago when I was meditating in the meditation room, my transcendental picture was … For the first time the consciousness in that picture fell down and touched my feet while I was meditating...
- Question: Guru, could you please tell me what is standing in the way of my reaching my goal?
- The morning can start with frustration if you cannot get up on time to meditate. … But before we find fault with nature, if we use our prayer-life, our meditation-life and our life of … I can read spiritual books, I can pray and meditate, I can learn songs, I can do so many things!” … Only by prayer and meditation can we tame the mind....