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Question: I have recently become your disciple, and I was wondering if it would help my progress if I kept thinking about my Goal of God-realisation.
After meditating for several years, some people feel that God-realisation is impossible in this incarnation...
From the book The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi
Question: Am I correct in saying that the Buddha is one of those who advocated a kind of escape from the world?
What he advocated was prayer and meditation to enter into the everlasting blissful state of consciousness...
From the book The summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi
Editor’s preface to the first edition of Vivekananda: Divinity’s Soul-Rainbow and Humanity’s Heart-Blossom
World's Parliament of Religions to commence the august 1993 convocation with a few moments of silent meditation...
From the book Vivekananda: an ancient silence-heart and a modern dynamism-life
Question: Why would God take the trouble to compel slackers like myself to accept the inner life?
They are praying or meditating at home. They are doing all this consciously....
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 3
Question: Can you say something about past lives?
past incarnation, you started your inner journey, your spiritual journey, that you cried inwardly, you meditated...
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 3
Question: What do you believe happens when we die?
The soul makes us aware of the inner wealth when we meditate and concentrate....
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 2
Joy unlimited[^1]
When I meditate on God, my soul becomes all Joy.

God has given me the body, mind, heart and soul....

From the book AUM — Vol. 3, No. 7,8, Feb. — 27 Mar. 1968
The power of purity[^2]_
If we can hold one single pure thought during our meditation, then for hours we will derive benefit from...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-1, No.11, 27 November 1974
Question: Sometimes we think that we have surrendered to God, but later we find out that part of our ego has not surrendered at all. It has been hiding and afterwards comes out. How can we attain complete surrender? How can we make all this ego surrender as a whole?
Let us try, in our conscious meditation, to live in the soul....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-5, No.11,12, November-December 1978
Question: Is there anything in particular we can do to live up to our fullest potential?[^4]
By thinking of the Highest and by meditating on the Highest. … If I value my spiritual life, I will always pray and meditate and do the things that are needed in the … Then he meditated and concentrated only on the highest experience that he had had.

You can also try to remember how many times you had your highest meditation. … Out of those, select only one meditation that was absolutely your highest....

From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 30
Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow

President Gorbachev (smiling): But I do not practise meditation!

Sri Chinmoy: I shall meditate for you! I shall pray for you. … You do your world-transformation-work, and I shall be praying and meditating for you while you are transforming...

From the book Sri Chinmoy in Russia
A galaxy of saints
centres there were people who paid all attention to selfless service and did not pay any attention to meditation … Meditation is a supreme necessity; selfless service is a supreme necessity. … But unfortunately at this centre you don't give attention either to meditation or to dedicated service...
From the book A Galaxy of Saints
The existence of God

As a seeker, I have three friends: concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Then my meditation-friend offers me his advice. … Meditation tells us that we have to dive the deepest to find our Goal....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
Ego and emotion
We feel that we get will-power from concentration and meditation. … We concentrate, meditate and contemplate to attain will-power.

As I said before, from concentration, meditation and contemplation we derive divine will-power....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
The existence of God[^8]

As a seeker, I have three friends: concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Then my meditation friend offers me his advice. … Meditation tells us that we have to dive the deepest to find our goal....

From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 4
Ego and emotion[^3]
We feel that we get will-power from concentration and meditation. … We concentrate, meditate and contemplate to attain will-power.

As I said before, from concentration, meditation and contemplation we derive divine will-power....

From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 6
The Master requests the Puerto Rican disciples to speak on his philosophy[^15]
You have read my writings, you have meditated on my writings many times.

So please meditate first for two or three minutes. … Chinmoy says that by following his path of love, devotion and surrender, and through aspiration and meditation...

From the book More talks to the Puerto Rican disciples 1970-1973
Question: After our meditations at the United Nations, we all have to go back to work.
Sri Chinmoy: You can sing quietly or in silence. If you are singing Jiban debata in silence, who is going to hear you? Your boss cannot say anything about what you are doing. If you are singing in silence, how can your boss or anybody else say anything? If everybody is talking when I leave, then wait for two or three minutes....
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 11
Yet when you answer a question, your eyes are closed, as if you are, well, in meditation, or in a restful
Sri Chinmoy: This is a most interesting question. I do not actually close my eyes totally. I keep them half-closed and half-open. I try to communicate with two worlds at once. When you ask me a question, first I dive deep within in order to get the answer immediately. But again, I have to live here on earth; I have to...
From the book Inner peace and world peace
Monkey-Master vs. donkey-Master

One day Banar was meditating deeply when a revelation dawned. … Now we are free from ignorance, both you and I, Gadha, so what we shall do is pray and meditate sincerely … Let your disciples pray and meditate soulfully. And let my disciples pray and meditate soulfully....

From the book A yogi's justice, an Avatar's Justice and God's Justice
Khadal's daughter[^2]
Tell me, why do you yourself pray and meditate?"

"I pray and meditate for various reasons, but the main reason is because I feel that I am quite old

"Then why don't you allow your son and daughter to come and meditate here with me?" … That is why I insisted that she meditate with me and become my disciple....

From the book One lives, one dies
Monkey-master vs. donkey-master[^1]

One day Banar was meditating deeply when a revelation dawned. … Now we are free from ignorance, both you and I, Gadha, so what we shall do is pray and meditate sincerely … Let your disciples pray and meditate soulfully. And let my disciples pray and meditate soulfully....

From the book AUM — Vol.II-1, No.10, 27 October 1974
Question: During my meditation I try to pray for health for my father because he's very sick.
Sri Chinmoy: As a human being, you have every right to pray to God to cure your father, since he brought you into the world. He is your closest and dearest. As a human being, you have received affection from him millions of times, and you spontaneously offer your own affection, concern and gratitude in return. This is the human...
From the book Prayer-world, mantra-world and japa-world
I'm not sure that I could ever achieve the kind of meditative power to be able to do that.
Sri Chinmoy: Certainly you can. Our prayer-life reminds us of the infinite capacities that we have deep...
From the book Aspiration-body, illumination-soul, part 2
Morality and spirituality
The saint is meditating and he says to the man, “Here you will be well protected.”

The saint is praying and meditating all day and morality will say that he is a liar....

From the book The doubt-world
The disciple proves his obedience
Underneath the hay was a very beautiful 12-year-old boy seated in a meditative posture. … He was meditating and breathing quite normally....
From the book Obedience: heart-fragrance
God the supreme Musician

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

From the book Eternity’s Breath
The Garland of Nation-Souls[^10]
Since 1970, Sri Chinmoy has served as Leader of the Peace Meditation Group at the United Nations, holding … meditations twice a week for UN representatives, delegates and staff and delivering a monthly lecture...
From the book U Thant: Divinity's Smile, Humanity's Cry
The Beyond[^6]
Meditate! Let us meditate on the Beyond. Lo! Ours, forever ours, is the Beyond....
From the book My Ivy League Leaves
Question: How can Dipti Nivas please you more?
From your prayer, from your meditation, from your inner vision, if you see that something can be done … The first message that you get from your aspiration after your meditation and prayer is the message that...
From the book Dipti Nivas
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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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