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- Question: What benefit can we get from meditation?
- This eternal happiness he can get only from meditation. … Meditation is the soul of God, meditation is the heart of man. … This self-transformation has to be done through inner meditation. … When we meditate consciously, we make the fastest progress. … We get divine peace through meditation....
- The feeling of humility
- From time to time, he could not meditate to his satisfaction. … highest meditation. … For years and years he had meditated so well that pride had entered into him. … That way is to remember your three highest meditations. … Imagine the particular day, the place where you sat and how you meditated....
- Meditation[^11]
Meditation is self-giving. We give what we have and what we are. … Both prayer and meditation lead us to the selfsame Goal. … We can say that prayer is the female and meditation is the male.
Sri Krishna meditated. His meditation-power has taught us many things.
- Meditation[^5]
Meditation is self-giving. We give what we have and what we are. … Both prayer and meditation lead us to the selfsame goal. … We can say that prayer is the female and meditation is the male.
Sri Krishna meditated. His meditation-power has taught us many things.
- Question: Sometimes I'll get a real high sound in my ear, even though I am not meditating.
- Sri Chinmoy: You are not meditating consciously, but your soul is meditating. … This is called spontaneous meditation. … Your soul is meditating, although your physical mind does not know that the soul is meditating....
- Question: You said your talk was based on your inner experiences. How did you get these experiences?
- Sri Chinmoy: From meditation. From my concentration, meditation and contemplation. … the ages of twelve through thirty-two, I went through rigorous spiritual discipline: concentration, meditation … It took me eight hours, ten hours, twelve hours, fourteen hours of meditation daily to achieve what I … In the inner life, also, when one concentrates, meditates and contemplates, one enters into the world...
- Question: If we are feeling tired, is it still beneficial to attend the meditation sessions at the
- Sri Chinmoy: If you are tired, you should come to the meditations in order to get a new flow of life … Meditation is a process that awakens our dormant energy or allows us to acquire energy that right now … But meditation has the capacity to bring into our physical existence the cosmic energy that is all around … So it is always advisable to come to the meditations regularly; then you will have new energy. … Meditation is illumination and illumination is the constant flow of new possibilities, new realisations...
- Terri Locicero: When I win a contest, I'm on top of the world; I'm so happy! When I lose, I worry too much about why that happened. How can I learn to keep a proper balance when I compete in a contest?
- Sri Chinmoy: There is only one way and that is through meditation. … If you meditate, even when you lose you can easily feel the same joy that the winner feels. … Meditation gives you the power of oneness. … So the winner and the loser can easily become one on the strength of their meditation. … Also, if you are the winner, on the strength of your meditation if you can for a few seconds establish...
- Question: Is physical fitness superior to spirituality?
- Sri Chinmoy: No amount of physical fitness can be superior to prayer and meditation. … Physical fitness can help prayer and meditation, if it is done soulfully. … And again, prayer and meditation will be able to help us increase our physical fitness. … want to have the necessary physical fitness, God will give it to you because God wants you to pray and meditate … So if God wants you to pray and meditate more soulfully and more devotedly, He will definitely give you...
- Terri Locicero: When I win a contest, I'm on top of the world; I'm so happy! When I lose, I worry too much about why that happened. How can I learn to keep a proper balance when I compete in a contest?
- Sri Chinmoy: There is only one way and that is through meditation. … If you meditate, even when you lose you can easily feel the same joy that the winner feels. … Meditation gives you the power of oneness. … So the winner and the loser can easily become one on the strength of their meditation. … Also, if you are the winner, on the strength of your meditation if you can for a few seconds establish...
- Question: How many times should one meditate daily?
- Again, if you want to meditate only once a day and you want Power, for example, but cannot meditate at … So let me come back to your question: how many times a day should you meditate? … How many minutes can you meditate soulfully? That is the most important thing. … People who meditate six times a day are not more spiritual than you people who meditate once a day most … Meditate for fifteen minutes or half an hour, twice a day, morning and evening....
- Question: If someone is having great difficulty in meditating because he lacks discipline and cannot … How can one develop self-discipline and improve his meditation?
- Meditation will be too difficult for him. … Concentration has to pave the way for meditation. … four a.m., then meditation will be easy for you. … a complete beginner, you will have very little resistance in your meditation. … It is in the early morning that one can meditate best....
- Question: 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 … something, to become something, this indicates that we have done a good meditation. … 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....
- Meditation: self-transcendence[^8]
- Man needs meditation to live a peaceful heavenly life.
Meditation means the evolution of the body and the soul. … Meditation: this is what an aspiring man constantly is.
- Prayer
- Prayer and meditation must go together. … When we pray we ask God to be responsible for us, and when we meditate we consciously accept responsibility … When we meditate, we become like lions: we become divine, devoted instruments of God. … Meditation brings God down to us and then we fulfil God. The two should go together....
- Question: Guru, what happens if you are really tired after you meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: After you meditate you should not be tired. … If it is real meditation, you get boundless energy. … If you do, that means you are not meditating correctly. … Similarly, while you are meditating you have got Peace, Light and Bliss, the inner wealth....
- Question: How can we make progress if we are not with you physically on our birthday?
- If you meditate on my highest transcendental consciousness, you are bound to feel my spiritual presence … During your meditation, if you can feel that while I am in that consciousness I am all for you — for … your spiritual success and progress — then your meditation will be extremely powerful. … Similarly, when I am physically absent and you are meditating on my transcendental picture, you have...
- Question: I am a beginner in meditation, and I find that I am constantly troubled by thoughts. … How can I have a successful meditation?
- It is better not to have any thoughts at all during meditation, but it is next to impossible for the … How can you have a successful meditation? Try to cry inwardly, cry for liberation. … When this cry comes from deep within, the Inner Pilot, God, will teach you how to meditate. … The secret of meditation is aspiration. Aspiration is the inner cry....
- George Riddell: Do you meditate or do you pray? In Yoga, how do you communicate with God?
- Sri Chinmoy: In Yoga we pray, we concentrate and we meditate. … And when we meditate, we enter into the deeper regions, deeper planes of consciousness. … Kingdom of God, by concentration we can also enter into the Kingdom of God and also, of course, by meditation … These three ways, prayer, concentration and meditation, are the most effective ways to commune with God...
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- My Lord, You ask me to keep My consciousness One inch above my head When I meditate. … I want you to remain Outside your mind-jungle, At least when you meditate On Me."...
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- When I do not pray and meditate,
My indifference to Mother EarthDoes not allow me to know
What is going on with her.But when I pray and meditate
Regularly and devotedly,I see and become the bleeding heart
Of Mother Earth.
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- What I wish to show by these feats of strength is that prayer and meditation can definitely increase … I hope that by doing this I will be able to inspire many people to pray and meditate sincerely as part...
- 95. Who needs it?
- Cave-austerity for meditation:
Who needs it?Not the truth-seeker in me,
Not the God-lover in me.No, never!
Palace-pleasure for meditation:
Who needs it?Not the life-warrior in me,
Not the Perfection-builder in me.No, never!
- Interviewer: Would it be a good idea to meditate at least for a few minutes before you sit down
- Sri Chinmoy: I do not advise my students to meditate seriously immediately before a meal. … But they often meditate for a minute or so before they eat....
- Editor's note to cover photo
- Sri Chinmoy meditates with Pablo Casals at the Maestro’s home in Puerto Rico on 5 October 1972. … After the meditation, Don Pablo said, “I am most grateful to you for granting me the most wonderful moment...
- 20. Unlearning and learning
- How do I spend my night?
I spend my night praying, Praying to unlearn.
How do I spend my day? I spend my day meditating, Meditating to learn.
What do I want to unlearn? World-information.
- The use of prayer
- The most important thing is to meditate every day. If you cannot meditate, then pray. … You have to pray and meditate. If you cannot meditate, prayer is also a form of contacting God. … If you pray you will get spiritual wealth; if you meditate you will get spiritual wealth. … But if you try to help others without meditation, without your wealth, what will you be able to give
- Concentration and meditation
- When you meditate, you rise into a higher consciousness. … Meditation wants to live in the vastness of Silence. … If you want to lose yourself, meditate. … Meditation says to God: “Father, do come to me.” … Meditation lets him in. Why? Just to catch the thief red-handed....
- Question: Is dancing to soulful music a form of meditation?
- Talking to someone soulfully is a form of meditation. … Dancing soulfully to soulful music is a form of meditation. … Soulfully reading spiritual books is a form of meditation.
- 6. Question: Is insomnia a blessing or a curse?
- not want to sleep because he wants to meditate more at night, this is good. … If he can meditate well and, at the same time, if his health is not affected, then if he wants to meditate