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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Question: Can you say something about past lives?
- past incarnation, you started your inner journey, your spiritual journey, that you cried inwardly, you meditated...
- Question: What do you believe happens when we die?
- The soul makes us aware of the inner wealth when we meditate and concentrate....
- Joy unlimited[^1]
- When I meditate on God, my soul becomes all Joy.
God has given me the body, mind, heart and soul....
- The power of purity[^2]_
- If we can hold one single pure thought during our meditation, then for hours we will derive benefit from...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- God the supreme Musician
In the spiritual world, next to meditation comes music, the breath of music. … Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling....
- 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...
- The Beyond[^6]
- Meditate! Let us meditate on the Beyond. Lo! Ours, forever ours, is the Beyond....
- 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...