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Question: With the stresses and demands of daily life, how can I maintain the kind of life-energy that I need to play my music with all my heart for the public?[^2]
There are so many rooms, but you want to be in your private room so that you can pray and meditate in...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 19
Question: When we cannot be with you at special and sacred times and we hear afterwards it was something that should not have been missed, something very important, how can we not feel sad that we had to miss it?
Sri Chinmoy: If you know I am having a seven-hour meditation or I have lifted 700 pounds, if something...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 30
Proper breathing
Question: Would you speak a little about proper breathing in meditation?...
From the book Sri Chinmoy primer
Question: Good morning, Guru. Because I love life so much and I am having such a good time, I find myself very frightened by the fact that at one point in my existence I will be passing from this life on to another life. I was hoping you could give me some advice about how not to be afraid of death.
If you pray and meditate, you will realise that death is only a temporary rest....
From the book Sacred Rock welcomes Sri Chinmoy
What I wanted and what the Supreme gave to me[^7]
Then there was a drunkard who never prayed and meditated....
From the book I wanted to be a seeker of the Infinite
Mental receptivity
When we pray and meditate most soulfully, the heart becomes one with the soul....
From the book Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 9
Fear
Through your inner light, through your prayer, through your meditation, you have to try to grow love...
From the book Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 9
Spiritual power
During our meditation, we have to invoke power in order to create a new life within us....
From the book The illumination of life-clouds, part 2
Question: Why does a God-realised Yogi suffer?
Let us think of God, pray to God, meditate on God, not because the world is full of suffering or because...
From the book The illumination of life-clouds, part 1
Has your soul a special mission?
Meditate within. You will discover your mission....
From the book Eternity's Soul-Bird, part 2
Question: I find that as we get older, we have to be kinder to our physical body.
Once upon a time, the mind compelled you to get up at six o'clock and meditate....
From the book Conversations with Sri Chinmoy
Question: How can we overcome fear?
When you meditate on the heart centre, every time you breathe in, try to feel that you are digging inside...
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: I have heard that seeing the relatives' and friends' tears gives great joy to the soul when parting from this life. Is this true?
The Master knows that he will appear before the disciples who are sincerely praying to him or who are meditating...
From the book Death and reincarnation: Eternity's voyage
My beloved dogs
Then, when I reached the meditation room, I sat with him and looked at him. O my God, he came back....
From the book Friendship with the animal kingdom
Question: How can a man achieve will-power — I mean the strength to go forward on the spiritual path?
For that you have to spend a few minutes two or three times a day in meditation....
From the book A seeker is a singer
Question: How can we have power and humility at the same time?
Because of his prayer and meditation, God gives him spiritual power, occult power, many things....
From the book Creation and perfection
Shyama's husband
He went into a forest to take up a life of prayer and meditation....
From the book Is your mind ready to cry? Is your heart ready to smile? part 8
The hermit and the king's wealth
I want only to pray and meditate. I am only a simple hermit....
From the book Is your mind ready to cry? Is your heart ready to smile? part 5
Question: Please explain the relationship between karma and fate.
It is adamantine will-power which we get through aspiration, through meditation....
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 3
Question: Some people who have reached enlightenment have felt compelled through compassion to serve other people in the sense of spreading their enlightenment, like you for instance. Whereas other people have retired with their enlightenment to live almost solitary lives. Which is the best? What makes them make this kind of choice?
But again, those people who are not taking part in helping mankind, say they are meditating, are also...
From the book Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile, part 2
IV. Who is fit for yoga?[^1]
mind), Dharana (the fixation of our consciousness on God, joined by all parts of the body), Dhyana (meditation...
From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 2, 27 September 1966
Spirituality and art
I have been a seeker from the dawn of my life, praying and meditating to realise the ever-transcending...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-2, No.10, 27 October 1975
Purity: selfless oneness with God
They spent most of their time praying and meditating, and totally neglected the demands of the body....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-4, No. 9, 27 September 1977
The Bhagavad-Gita — The God Song. Chapter XVI: Forces divine and forces undivine
committing a Himalayan blunder if they feel, on the strength of their vital impulses, that they can practise meditation...
From the book AUM — Vol. 6, No. 8, 27 Mar. 1971
The disciples' gifts
A disciple may feel that if he does good meditation that is enough. … There are some disciples who are very close to me inwardly when it is a matter of praying, meditating … of any material thing that will add to your inner experience if you are having a very high, sublime meditation...
From the book The disciples' love-power
The inner teaching[^38]
He who prays, he who meditates, he who concentrates, he who contemplates daily can easily enter into … We can consciously achieve this oneness only through real prayers, concentration, meditation and contemplation … But real meditation and spirituality, Yoga, not only leads us right up to the throne, but makes us sit...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
Miracles[^99]
one day said to his dearest disciple, Naren [Swami Vivekananda], “My son, I have practised so much meditation … The real miracle is his meditation. … come, to those who know that we are here listening to a spiritual talk or inwardly praying to God and meditating...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
The heart
If the beginner needs a peaceful heart, let him concentrate, meditate and contemplate on the very depths … us try to feed this inner flame through our constant spiritual practice, through our daily prayer, meditation … If we practise meditation regularly, faithfully and devotedly, not only do we come closer to our Goal...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
The heart[^9]
If the beginner needs a peaceful heart, let him concentrate, meditate and contemplate on the very depths … us try to feed this inner flame through our constant spiritual practice, through our daily prayer, meditation

If we practise meditation regularly, faithfully and devotedly, not only do we come closer to our Goal...

From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 1
The Light of the Immortals[^3]
I was extremely fortunate to meditate with him three or four times.

When we pray and meditate, we come to know that we do have an Inner Pilot who is guiding us at every … But if we do not pray and meditate, there is no guarantee that we will do the right thing....

From the book Sri Chinmoy with two brother-stars: Narada Michael Walden and Sudhahota Carl Lewis
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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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