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- 25.
- My meditations must intensify The God-hunger Of every seeker....
- 208.
- A powerful meditation Can easily clear The mind's thought-jungle.
- 2.
- Prayer is personal. Also universal. Meditation is impersonal. Also transcendental.
- 3.
- Prayer is petition. Also adoration. Meditation is absorption. Also perfection.
- 4.
- Prayer needs God’s Compassion-shower. Meditation needs God’s Illumination-tower.
- Question: Sometimes I get angry for no apparent reason. What is the inner reason?
- So try to have peace of mind on the strength of your prayer and meditation. … If you pray and meditate, anger can be conquered. … We are bound to use it for a negative purpose if we do not pray or meditate. … If a spiritual person gets angry, then his meditation is not real meditation. … This is not meditation....
- Question: What is the difference between thinking and meditating, or are they the same?
- Thinking and meditating are like north pole and south pole.
When we meditate we do not think at all. … The aim of meditation is to free ourselves from all thought. … In profound meditation, in deep meditation, thoughts can come in, but not in the highest, deepest meditation … Through aspiration and meditation....
- Question: Guru, how can we go deeper and deeper within to get out of the surface mind?
Three times a day you eat, so you can meditate at least three times a day also. … But you have to know that meditation is not like eating. … If you spend one hour trying to meditate, during that hour perhaps five minutes you can meditate well … But if you make up your mind that you will meditate only for five minutes, but meditate well, it does … If you are ready to meditate fifteen minutes, try to keep one hour aside....
- Question: How can we know whether we are meditating well or not?
- Sri Chinmoy: How can we know whether we are meditating well or not? … Right after our meditation, if we have a good feeling for the world, then we know our meditation was … we can be sure that we were meditating well. … When we have this experience, we know that we have done a very good meditation. … It is only through meditation that we can remember our forgotten story....
- Question: At a recent seven hour meditation I found it difficult to meditate for the entire period
- Sri Chinmoy: From time to time we will have very long meditations. … If you try to meditate seven hours a day, you will turn insane. … practise at home and try to lengthen the time that you can meditate.
When you come to the meditation on my birthday and find that you cannot meditate well, my request … I will be most grateful if you can meditate at home....
- 32. A better way
- A better way To pass the morning: I shall meditate every morning For fifteen minutes To love God in His own Way, Plus cheerfully. A better way To pass the afternoon: I shall meditate every afternoon For fifteen minutes To please God in His own Way, Plus cheerfully. A better way To pass the evening: I shall meditate every evening For fifteen minutes To fulfil God in His own Way, Plus cheerfully.
- Question: How does meditation help to expand the silence within ourselves?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation undoubtedly helps to expand the silence within ourselves. … Meditation is like an inner flashlight. … When we enter with our meditation into our subconscious, unconscious, or even inconscient parts, immediately...
- Question: People are often afraid of practices like meditation, which are not prescribed by their
- Sri Chinmoy: In the West, especially, prayer is given much more importance than meditation. … So some people feel that if they meditate instead of praying, they are being disloyal to their religious … Also, many people are not accustomed to meditating, whereas all along they have been praying....
- Question: Can a soulful smile be meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Definitely a soulful smile is part of meditation. … If it is a genuinely soulful smile, it comes from the depth of our meditation. … a few times soulfully at your fellow travellers on life’s road, then definitely it is part of your meditation...
- 5607. Be regular, punctual and sincere
- In your early morning meditation Be regular, be punctual and be sincere. If you do not meditate regularly and punctually, The Supreme will forgive you, Your Master will forgive you, But you will never be able To forgive yourself, never! If you deceive yourself in your meditation, There will eventually come a time When you will spontaneously become Absolutely sincere. Then it is you who will not be able To forgive yourself.
- Question: What do we learn from meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: The first thing that we learn from meditation is vastness. … Meditation is the only way to expand our outer existence, our limited being. … Without meditation, we would never expand ourselves; but if we meditate even for one minute, we have … The sense of being a conscious instrument we get only in our meditation. … Only meditation can accomplish this, nothing else....
- Meditation[^10]
- I wish to say a few words about meditation.
What is meditation? … Meditation is not an escape exercise. … But when we meditate, we do not try to escape. … So silent meditation we must learn.
How do we meditate silently? … Silent meditation is totally different....
- Question: When I first began meditating at three o'clock in the morning, I used to have very good … meditations and I was very inspired.
- But here you have to realise that you are not an expert in meditation. … Now your meditation is at the mercy of your inspiration or aspiration. … But when you become an expert, meditation will be at your command. … It is the same with meditation. … We will feel that meditation is our soul’s necessity and the inner urge to meditate will never be able...
- Question: Guru, I was told that some disciples go to New York to see you on their birthdays. Is it more important to you that we all go on your birthday or on our birthdays?
- You will have their inspiration, plus the power of group meditation. … There will be morning meditations almost every day, and other big meditations. … You will not get the strength of the long group meditations or the inspiration of multifarious spiritual...
- Question: I'm very involved in my work, and it leaves me little time to sit and meditate. … I feel that my work at the restaurant is a meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: If you feel that your work is meditation itself, there is nothing wrong with that. … Meditation means consciousness, conscious oneness with the Inner Pilot, the Source. … or dealing with the customers, if you feel that your consciousness is high, then certainly that is meditation … possible for you to enter into your highest or deepest while working, then you have to set aside time for meditation...
- If I get up at three or four o'clock in the morning, is it bad for me to go back to sleep after my meditation
- But if you can continue meditating, that is infinitely better. … If you are sleeping at 8:00 or 9:00 because you meditated at four, then your own vital forces or the … agitation from the earth's consciousness or from your own lower vital can enter into the results of the meditation … So if you do go to sleep after you meditate, the best thing is to get up at five or six o'clock....
- Alan
- "My Lord, how long should I meditate on You every day?"
"My child, five seconds will be enough." … I don't meditate on you even for one second. … Therefore, how can I have the audacity to ask you to meditate on Me for more than five seconds a day?
"My Lord, You don't meditate on me even for five seconds a day? How can You be so cruel?...
- Question: Sometimes when we meditate with you, I feel such peace that I fall asleep.
- Only if you fall asleep after meditating, sometimes you have assimilation. … But if you don’t receive anything from meditation, then what will rest do? … If you don’t meditate well and then you sleep, do you think an angel will drop from Heaven and meditate...
- Question: Recently my voice does not seem to come out when I sing. How can I overcome this?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditate on softness. Think of a flower. A flower will give you softness. … You can meditate on anything that is very delicate. But do not think of anything sharp. … In your case, if you can meditate on something that is very, very soft, it will make your voice sweeter … Otherwise, you can meditate on your soul for a few seconds before you sing....
- Interviewer: So when people see you doing this and they see that you are not a big, muscular man, what message do you hope they will receive?
- Sri Chinmoy: The message that prayer and meditation can help them in all aspects of their lives. … If they want to become physically strong, then they can gain much by practising prayer and meditation … On the strength of my prayer and meditation, I have been able to build up my strength and to accomplish … So my message is that if one needs strength, then uncovering one’s inner strength through prayer and meditation...
- 935. No more, no less
- You are no more
Than a human being When you fail to meditate.
You are no less Than a cosmic god When you soulfully meditate.
You are no more And No less than God Himself When you divinely love and serve.
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- When I pray to God, I am, indeed, good. When I meditate on God, I am, indeed, better. When I do both — pray and meditate — I not only do the very best, But also I am on the way To perfect perfection.
- Question: How do I continue my aspiration in my sleep?
- Sri Chinmoy: Before you go to sleep, meditate most soulfully and feel that this meditation is like a...
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- When the cosmic gods meditate In Heaven, You can join them. They will definitely be happy If you do. Do they have a special time To meditate on special attributes of God? Yes, they do! In the small hours of the morning.
- The llamas with beautiful eyes[^12]
- I looked at them and meditated and meditated. Then I felt sorry for the llamas, so I bought six....