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- Interviewer: When meeting with world leaders, what do you speak about?
- Interviewer: Where does meditation come into this? … Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is of paramount importance. … If we do not meditate, we cannot have even an iota of peace. … Meditation makes the mind calm and tranquil [Sri Chinmoy demonstrates meditation]. … With this meditation, I am bringing down peace from Above....
- Question: A disciple from Arecibo told me one night that he felt the necessity to meditate while
- But a day can come when he has more capacity; at that time he can concentrate, he can meditate. … At the beginning it is always advisable to meditate at home in one corner of a room. … If he is at home at the time of meditation, if he wants to sleep, he can lie down. … You can meditate for fifteen minutes, four times a day. … But at the beginning you will meditate at home or in the Centre....
- Question: How can we always see beauty within ourselves?
- Sri Chinmoy: You can always see beauty within yourself only by praying and meditating. … When you pray, you have to think that your Source is one; and when you meditate, you have to feel that … When you are meditating on the many, you are spreading your light to all....
- Question: Do you like meditating outdoors in parks?
- Sri Chinmoy: I do like it, but we have to know whether the disciples can meditate better outdoors or … While we were singing during the meditation in Central Park, many people who were just curious came to … One person who had not been meditating with us came up to me while I was giving out prasad....
- Question: Is it essential to have a mantra?[^104]
- Again, there are many people who do not repeat mantras; they aspire and meditate in a different way. … We cannot say that mantra is superior to prayer and meditation or that prayer and meditation are superior...
- Interviewer: I know you said before that it is the power of meditation that enables you to lift such … Meditation must hold tremendous potential for all of us.
- Meditation is not the sole monopoly of any individual. … Everybody has the birthright to meditate; and, if we can meditate well, then we establish our oneness...
- Question: Is it wrong to expect some result from our meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: After you pray and meditate you may think that you must get something from God. … You have had a good, good meditation, so you are expecting a little bit of Peace or Light.
The moment you have meditated well, try to feel that that is already your achievement. … during his highest meditation. … will be lower than if he had meditated only in pure self-offering....
- Question: If you set a time for your meditation and are able to get up earlier, should you still
- If your time to meditate is 4:30 in the morning, at that hour your soul will knock at your door — like … , some days even at nine o'clock — but is it real meditation? … So disciples should get up and meditate between the hours of 4:30 am and 6:45 am. … Please meditate at the time you are supposed to. … If you change your time every day or if you have not meditated, I will catch you people in the inner...
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- The difference between prayer And meditation is this: Prayer says to the world, “Look, look, O world, How much I love God.” Meditation says to the world, “O world, look, look, How much God and I love each other.”
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- Yesterday I did not pray
And I did not meditate. Therefore, my Lord Supreme remained
His unfulfilled Promise.
Today again I have not prayed And I have not meditated. Therefore, my life is now My own abandoned hope.
- feels that a person should refrain from physical and sexual intercourse if he wants to develop his meditation
- Donna Halper: Should one refrain from sex if one wants to develop in meditation? … One has to refrain from all lower vital movements if one wants to make the fastest progress in meditation...
- Question: What is the best way to distinguish between the mind's desire and the soul's will?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you want to know the soul’s will, you have to pray and meditate most sincerely and intensely … Otherwise, if you do not pray soulfully and meditate powerfully, automatically your mind’s desire will...
- Interviewer: So your disciples are spreading your mission in these countries?
- My students pray and meditate on specific days collectively at their respective centres. … They also meditate at home in the morning and evening....
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- When a seeker meditates on himself, he feels his inner potentiality and sees his outer possibility.
When a seeker meditates on God, he feels his inner divinity and sees his outer reality....
- Meditating and composing songs
- Today I spontaneously set to music 201 Bengali songs during our four-hour meditation in the grounds of … I was having a wonderful meditation. … While we were singing, the sky made a solemn promise to meditate on our behalf. … The disciples were not looking at the sky, but I saw that the sky was meditating on our behalf.
When we pray to God and meditate on God, everything helps us....
- When they come to you, do they stay, or do you find that they regard meditation as a kind of interesting
- In my case I am fortunate enough to be able to tell you that my students have taken spirituality and meditation … Meditation is not something that becomes boring after a few years. … They come to feel that this way of meditation is not suitable for them any more, but not because meditation … They took meditation seriously....
- Question: If we give you everything on the physical plane, will we grow more into your soul?
- Physical work is the body's prayer, the body's meditation. … In prayer you go to God and ask Him to please do this or that; and in meditation God comes and tells … During your prayer you go up so your Father can please and fulfil you; and during your meditation He … This kind of prayer and meditation you can do in the physical plane while you work. … Devoted service is a real form of prayer and meditation....
- Question: Does the fact that we are meditating mean that during the day our consciousness will be … higher than it used to be when we were not meditating?
- Even when they are not meditating, they are doing something else spiritual, and their consciousness remains … In other cases, only during the time of meditation, at the height of their meditation, has the consciousness … In the first category, the consciousness is raised during meditation and also during their normal activities … They go up in their morning meditation and start the race....
- Do you think there will ever be a time when significant portions of the population meditate on a regular
- Chinmoy: I definitely feel that there shall come a time when each and every individual will pray and meditate … Now almost everyone is praying and meditating, but it is not done consciously. … But there shall come a time when each individual will pray and meditate soulfully and consciously, for … For that, meditation is of supreme importance. … So there shall come a time when each individual will meditate soulfully and unconditionally to become...
- Question: If we give you everything on the physical plane, will we grow more into your soul?
- Physical work is the body’s prayer, the body’s meditation. … In prayer you go to God and ask Him to please do this or that; and in meditation God comes and tells … During your prayer you go up so your Father can please and fulfil you; and during your meditation He … This kind of prayer and meditation you can do in the physical plane while you work. … Devoted service is a real form of prayer and meditation....
- Question: How many times should we meditate per day?
- Sri Chinmoy: If one follows the spiritual path, then one has to meditate at least once a day. … It is better to meditate at least three times a day, but if it is not possible to feed your soul three … meditation at noon should be for five or ten minutes. … You may meditate seven times a day, but it has to be done most soulfully. … If you feel that you can meditate soulfully only once, early in the morning, then that is enough....
- Question: When I try to meditate, I very often feel that although I want to, some part of me resists … and doesn't let me meditate well.
- Sri Chinmoy: The part of you that wants to meditate is your soul, and the part that wants to stand in … the way of your meditation is your vital. … One reason that the vital does not want you to meditate is that it feels that it will lose you. … So when you meditate, ask your soul, "Why do I have to meditate?" Let the soul give you the reason. … It will tell you that if you meditate, it is for your own good....
- How much time should I allot to chanting and how much for meditation?
- Chanting is also part of prayer and meditation. We cannot separate them. … After chanting you can pray for five minutes, and after praying you can meditate for ten minutes. … After meditating, slowly we have to enter our outer life. Meditation takes us deep inside. … Do not think that meditation is superior and chanting and prayer are inferior — no, no, no. … Do chanting first, then prayer, then meditation....
- Question: To attain joy, should we always meditate the same way as we do in the Centre?
- Sri Chinmoy: The highest type of meditation is done in silence, with one objective in mind: to please … When you meditate, if you can feel that you are pleasing God in God’s own Way, then that is the best … type of meditation. … Otherwise, if you start meditating in order to get joy, you will get joy; you are bound to get joy if … Before you meditate, if you can offer the result of your meditation to the Source and say, “I wish to...
- Question: What is meditation?
- It starts with concentration, then meditation, then contemplation. … Now meditation is the second stage. … So if you want to know what meditation is, I wish to say that meditation is that very state of our consciousness … Meditation is God’s language as well as man’s language. … Thus meditation is the language we use to speak to God....
- Question: How does physical pain, illness or an unpleasant experience affect meditation?
- Then how will you meditate? In real meditation, the entire being has to aspire. … But the next morning you cannot meditate. … Everything on the physical plane has to be illumined before you meditate. … Otherwise, meditation cannot be profound. … Even breathing can affect meditation....
- Question: If we look at your meditation technique itself, can you explain a bit about it?
- Everybody knows that in the beginning, when you start meditating, you should make the mind calm, quiet … and tranquil so that you can have a very peaceful meditation. … Then I tell my students: try to meditate the way you feel is best. … Anything that gives you joy while praying and meditating you should do. … If you want to meditate on the power aspect of life, then look at the sun and meditate....
- Interview with Joel Martin[^3]
- Perhaps the first thing to ask you about is meditation. … You are a Master of meditation and understand very well what that means. … How do we begin to understand what meditation is, the nature of meditation? … But proper meditation we do with our heart, with our soul. … Meditation is the way to have communion with God in a most perfect manner. (3): 3....
- Question: Is there any value in associating with spiritual people?
- Then you will see that your meditation becomes most valuable, most soulful. … You will have a most powerful meditation. … It is in group meditation, collective meditation, that you can easily strengthen your will-power. … Then, when you become an expert in meditation, you can meditate alone. … But until then, it is advisable to meditate regularly with other sincere seekers....
- Question: Sometimes in the morning after meditation, I fall into a doze, not a sound sleep. … But it doesn't seem to be a conscious meditation. Is this good?
- So after you meditate, try to be absolutely dynamic. … Your dynamic energy will help you enter into meditation. … It is always better for the aspirants not to meditate while lying down. … At least in your case, the time has not come for you to meditate while lying. … milk, something liquid and hot, before you enter into meditation....