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The end of all knowledge[^2]
But if we want to see God through an open door, then we have to meditate. … We have to meditate daily for at least twelve hours. … want to see God face to face as you are seeing me and I am seeing you, face to face, then we have to meditate...
From the book AUM — Vol. 6, No. 9, 27 Apr. 1971
United Nations
Since then, every Tuesday and Friday I have been going to the United Nations to offer prayers and meditations … We have a well-established Meditation Group at the UN Headquarters to love and serve the United Nations...
From the book I prayerfully bow to the soul of Russia
Money, too, can serve God: give the money a chance[^4]
me to tell you that you are polluting the spiritual atmosphere of my house by carrying money into my meditation … You are welcome to come inside to meditate, but each week, when I give you an interview, it will be outside...
From the book The Master surrenders
Lord Ganesha's birth[^8]
Lord Shiva was all the time meditating and meditating....
From the book The power of kindness and other stories
God the supreme Musician

In the spiritual world next to meditation is music, the breath of music. … Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling....

From the book God the Supreme Musician
Question: Would you call the ability to communicate directly with one's own Master without the use of the spoken word a form of psychic power?
India’s spiritual Masters have great admiration for the Himalayas, and most of the Indian Vedic Seers meditated … If we have true faith in God, we need not meditate twenty-four hours a day; just a few minutes will serve...
From the book Astrology, the supernatural and the Beyond
Question: Could you please speak about ego, pride and confidence?
But if we don’t pray, if we don’t meditate, if we don’t actually have that realisation, then we are only … When we pray and meditate, we have that feeling. That is called real confidence, divine confidence....
From the book Flame-Waves, part 12
Once I understand God, nobody can misunderstand me
A few days ago I happened to be at one of his public meditations. … If she goes deep within and prays and meditates, who knows but that one day she may accept our path."...
From the book A yogi's justice, an Avatar's Justice and God's Justice
Krishna's son mocks the sages
He entered into the forest and in his meditation he gave up his life-breath. … There, he sat down under a tree and he started meditating; he wanted to give up his life....
From the book The Earth-Illumination-Trumpets of Divinity’s home, part 2
A lost friend
Now, at the age of sixteen he was already meditating for six, seven, eight, nine, sometimes ten hours … about it, but Brahmamoy was very happy since it was a simple job and permitted him much free time to meditate...
From the book A lost friend
The rules of the Master
He entered the meditation room to formally start the meeting, meditated only five minutes facing the...
From the book A Galaxy of Saints
Question: If you told me you could swim across the ocean, I would say, "Let me see you do it." I wouldn't accept the fact that you could until I saw you do it, and then after I saw you do it, I'd say, "Well, now you can teach me."
ask you to give up your doubts, your impurities, your attachments, your desires for a few months, and meditate … If you want to prove the authenticity of a spiritual Master, meditate and go deep within, make your mind...
From the book Mind-confusion and heart-illumination, part 1
Belief and faith
These friends are prayer and meditation. Prayer helps us realise the highest Height. … When we meditate, the Supreme Lord, our Eternal Beloved, comes down and dictates to us what to do, how...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
I feel it is very important, as a disciple, to still follow our discipline —- to read, to sing, to meditate
Towards the end of your birthday meditation, for the last few seconds when I smile at you, at that time

She had a friend and that friend came to our apartment a few times to meditate....

From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 37
Our life itself is art[^2]
your soul, the way the soul has established its free access to the Supreme, during your prayers and meditations … When you pray and meditate, try to feel, in the inmost recesses of your heart, two million wings to carry...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 20
Question: In the outer life, when you have a goal, you can imagine it. But in the inner life, sometimes it is hard to imagine what the goal is. Sometimes I look at you and say that you are my goal, but then I see that you have all kinds of problems and physical suffering.
When you have had a good meditation, are you the same person as you are when you are in your ordinary … But when you have a very high meditation, you feel totally different....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 26
Question: Guru, what can I do to please you more?
Early in the morning if you are praying and meditating for ten minutes, then try to meditate for twelve...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 9
The priest who changed his profession
In India, we believe that one can gain merit by praying and meditating early in the morning before entering … The priest continued, “Every morning you have been fooling the sincere devotees who come to pray and meditate...
From the book Amusement I enjoy, enlightenment I study, part 6
Question: What is love?
When we enter into the universal Consciousness through our meditation, we do not think of human love

Divine love will come from the spiritual Master, from God and from our own meditation, but only when...

From the book Service-boat and love-boatman, part 2
Accept or reject, but stick to your principles
Just last night while everyone else was meditating at the meeting, I saw you drinking in the beauty of … The Master asked the two women and the two men to come into his meditation room....
From the book Love-power and gratitude-flower
God the Supreme Musician

In the spiritual world next to meditation is music, the breath of music. … Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling....

From the book Arise! Awake! Thoughts of a yogi
God the Supreme Musician

In the spiritual world, next to meditation is music, the breath of music. … Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling....

From the book God the Supreme Musician (1976)
Question: If you told me you could swim across the ocean, I would say, "Let me see you do it." I wouldn't accept the fact that you could until I saw you do it, and then after I saw you do it, I would say, "Well, now you can teach me."
ask you to give up your doubts, your impurities, your attachments, your desires for a few months, and meditate … are of no use for seeing inner things, if you want to prove the authenticity of a spiritual Master, meditate...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
In search of a perfect disciple
Concerned, he entered into deep meditation.

One day in meditation he went very, very deep within and as he entered into his highest trance he...

From the book AUM — Vol. 7, No. 2, 27 Sep. 1971
Short story — Money, too, can serve God: give the money a chance
me to tell you that you are polluting the spiritual atmosphere of my house by carrying money into my meditation … You are welcome to come inside to meditate, but each week when I give you an interview it will be outside...
From the book AUM — Vol. 1, No. 1, January 27, 1974
A lost friend
Now, at the age of sixteen he was already meditating for six, seven, eight, nine, sometimes ten hours … about it, but Brahmamoy was very happy since it was a simple job and permitted him much free time to meditate...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-2, No.11, 27 November 1975
The Bhagavad Gita — The God-Song. Chapter V: Renunciation
In the field of spirituality, although meditation and concentration constitute a totally different approach … , work and dedicated service are nothing short of pure meditation....
From the book AUM — Vol. 5, No.12, 27 July 1970
Question: I pray and meditate, I feel a flood of love and joy.
Sri Chinmoy: You may feel the suffering of the world, true; but you can go one step further. You can share your happiness with those who are unhappy. Suppose you have a mango. It is up to you whether you eat the mango all by yourself or share it. You may not want to share it because it is most delicious. Again, you can offer a...
From the book Flame-Waves, part 11
Otherwise, if we only develop ourselves in a spiritual direction, through meditation and prayer, are
Sri Chinmoy: Each one has a way of serving the world. Somebody may enter into politics because he feels that politics is the only way to save mankind or to solve all human problems. Again, there will be someone who feels that only the inner life can cure the maladies of millennia. He feels that if he can enter into the inner...
From the book Politics and spirituality: can they go together?
Question: The situation in Bosnia deeply troubles me and I have been meditating very much in the
God’s Will we can know by virtue of our prayer and meditation and by virtue of our conscious self-giving...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 6
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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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