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Question: Through meditating and being here, I get so much happiness and joy and you spoil me and
Sri Chinmoy: That joking is infinitely better than brooding and sulking and speaking ill of others — infinitely better! You are lightening yourself when you joke, when you enjoy the humour aspect. Is there anybody among the spiritual Masters who did not like jokes? Sri Aurobindo enjoyed humour very much. So did Sri Ramakrishna....
From the book Beyond likes and dislikes: illumining questions and answers
Alphabetical listing by country and by university — Volumes I, II and III
Gayatri Mantra” II:16410 December 1971

Columbia University; New York, New York

“Concentration, Meditation … Upanishads” II:1881 March 1972

Massachusetts, University of Amherst, Massachusetts

“Prayer and Meditation … City, Missouri

“Prayer” II:3625 March 1974

Monmouth College; Asbury Park, New Jersey

“I Pray, I Meditate … ” II:10320 March 1970

New York, State University of at Albany; Albany, New York

“We Pray and We Meditate … >“My Lord Supreme” III:384 May 1977

Pace University; White Plains, New York

“We Concentrate, We Meditate...

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 3
Newsday — 10 September 1997[^6]
I was born in India, and I spent many years praying and meditating there. … But if we pray and meditate, then God does everything for us. … In my case, at the age of four I started praying and meditating. … In my case, I pray and meditate first, and I also serve. … Real knowledge and wisdom come from prayer and meditation — not from books....
From the book Mother Teresa: Humanity’s Flower-Heart, Divinity’s Fragrance-Soul, part 3
Two strangers: money and light
One day when the meditation session was over and Isabella had left, the Master was in a joking mood.

At the end of the next meditation meeting, the Master said to Quentin, “Is it fair of you to say I … The disciples will soon be coming for meditation, so please leave now and I will mail it to you.” … During his meditation the Master saw inwardly that Quentin would not take his own life, and that he should...

From the book The ascent and descent of the disciples
The seeker's four lives[^97]

We get this inner smile through prayer and meditation. … Here in the Western world, we give more importance to prayer than to meditation. … Prayer and meditation are like two eyes.

In the spiritual life, we have to offer our aspiration, our prayer, our concentration, our meditation...

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
Sound-life and silence-life
We regulate and discover our life-art through prayer and meditation. … When we meditate, we realise that God is constantly offering us His divine Message. … Now, when we are meditating, we are just receiving. God is the Talker and we are the listener. … But when we meditate and light enters into us, we see that we have entered into the realm of darkness...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
Sound-life and silence-life[^2]
We regulate and discover our life-art through prayer and meditation. … When we meditate, we realise that God is constantly offering us His divine Message. … Now, when we are meditating, we are just receiving. God is the talker and we are the listener. … But when we meditate and light enters into us, we see that we have entered into the realm of darkness...
From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 6
The seeker's four lives[^10]

We get this inner smile through prayer and meditation. … Here in the Western world, we give more importance to prayer than to meditation. … Prayer and meditation are like two eyes.

In the spiritual life, we have to offer our aspiration, our prayer, our concentration, our meditation...

From the book My Rose Petals, part 2
Enter students
This is the place where we meditated together.

Leonard Bernstein: Yes, this is our place....

From the book Four Summit-Height-Melodies meet with Sri Chinmoy
The conqueror of space and time

Lahiri Mahashoy said to him, "Let me enter into the adjacent office and meditate for some time....

From the book Lahiri Mahashoy: a revelation of the Beyond
Scene 5
discipline, this austere life, he decided that he would eat only blades of grass after beginning serious meditation...
From the book Mother, give me the Light of Knowledge
Discipline
We have to practise the spiritual life, and there is no other way to practise it than to meditate every...
From the book Illumination-Fruits
Question: Guru, you said not too long ago that it has been a very, very long time since you received a sincere smile. My question is this: is there anything at all that we, your disciples, can do to change that?
From the second floor I entered into the elevator to come down to the meditation hall....
From the book My heart-door I have kept wide open
Question: How can we protect ourselves from unaspiring people that we're constantly thrown in contact with and make them feel our aspiration, even though they may be almost hostile in their attitude?
We must not feel that we are so divine because we are praying and meditating and they are undivine because...
From the book The hunger of darkness and the feast of light, part 2
Question: When we disobey you, how can we get rid of the guilt?
If gratitude comes as a most soulful prayer or most soulful meditation, then it embodies everything....
From the book My Heart-Melody
Ashwatthwama surrenders his crown[^1]
They heard that Ashwatthwama was hiding on the bank of the Ganges, pretending to meditate amongst the...
From the book Great Indian meals: divinely delicious and supremely nourishing, part 8
The fight is for the brave[^18]

“You can get rid of these problems through your prayer and meditation.”...

From the book Great Indian meals: divinely delicious and supremely nourishing, part 2
Fear's transformer: light
If you invoke light and meditate on light, then automatically you will see your inner path....
From the book Three strangling sisters: fear, jealousy and insecurity
Question: Do you believe there are beings from other planets who come to earth in flying saucers?
When I bless her and look at her face during meditation, I immediately see that she comes from a spirit...
From the book Astrology, the supernatural and the Beyond
I wanted renunciation[^23]
He was in the Ashram, praying and meditating....
From the book God made, God moulded, God shaped
Question: The Yogi believes in realisation on earth after a series of reincarnations; the Christian believes in salvation after death through Christ. How can one synthesise these two great beliefs?
Realisation has to be achieved here on earth through prayer and meditation....
From the book Flame-Waves, part 10
Question: Why should you concentrate on the heart instead of concentrating on the mind?
mind, the mind that complicates and confuses everything, you will be doomed to disappointment in your meditation...
From the book Flame-Waves, part 2
Success-height[^10]
It is his bounden duty to pray soulfully and meditate fruitfully so that his progress, which is undoubtedly...
From the book The mind loves the heart, the mind becomes the heart, part 1
The punishment is compassion
Once at midnight he was walking along the street praying and meditating when he saw a man playing on...
From the book Illumination-experiences on Indian soil, part 2
Question: Why is darkness impermanent and light permanent?[^256]

This experience of Delight we get only when we meditate, for only then do we get inner peace or peace...

From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
Scene I
Instead of speaking about Him I shall meditate on Him, and like you, I am sure, one day I will be able...
From the book The Singer of the Eternal Beyond
Scene V
discipline, this austere life, he decided that he would eat only blades of grass after beginning serious meditation...
From the book The Singer of the Eternal Beyond
Scene 9

ASHWINIKUMAR: But your Master did ask you to meditate on us, to invoke us....

From the book Supreme sacrifice
Success-height[^57]
It is his bounden duty to pray soulfully and meditate fruitfully so that his progress, which is undoubtedly...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
Scene 1

UPASUNDA: Let us leave our palace tomorrow and go to the forest to pray to and meditate on Brahma....

From the book The disciple illumines the Master
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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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