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- July 30
- I meditate, because I must.
I love, because I am God's.
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- Each soulful meditation Has the capacity to show me Where God is hiding.
- March 26
- Concentration makes us perceptive.
Meditation makes us receptive.Contemplation makes us intuitive.
- July 30
- Prayer is man's protection.
Meditation is man's salvation.Realisation is man's transformation.
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- I meditate In the temple of surrender To receive Peace From my Lord....
- 9127. To Sing One Song Soulfully
- To sing even one song Soulfully Is to have a profound meditation Unmistakably.
- 6964. Another Opportunity-Smile
- Another opportunity-smile God has granted me today To meditate on Him unconditionally.
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- The temptation-disaster May challenge The meditation-protector, But it will always lose.
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- To a heart of happiness Each day is the best day For meditation.
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- The meditation of the heart Begins When the domination of the mind Ends.
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- God cradles me Between My morning sunrise-prayers And My evening sunset-meditations.
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- Love is Life. Life is Light. Light is God’s Meditation and man’s salvation.
- Question: How long should we meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: Usually my disciples are not required to meditate more than half an hour daily. … At the maximum they can meditate for forty-five minutes. … But if one tries to meditate for one or two hours, the mind does not cooperate. … If you have the capacity, you can meditate for hours and hours. … Who knows, perhaps you will get another two minutes' worth of good meditation....
- Question: Can you take the senses as an object of meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Certainly, you can take the senses as an object of meditation. … If you meditate on a pencil or carrot or a cucumber, God is also there. … But if you meditate on the sun early in the morning, or if you meditate on the vast sky, you will receive … You have to know what is worthy of your meditation and concentration. … There are other things to meditate on which will offer you more satisfactory and abiding truth....
- Question: What is the difference between concentration, meditation and contemplation?
- Sri Chinmoy: First comes concentration, then comes meditation and then comes contemplation. … First you concentrate, then you meditate and then you contemplate.
Meditation is totally different. Meditation is vastness. … When you are meditating, you are dealing with what is vaster than the vastest. … Inside contemplation there is concentration and also meditation....
- Question: What is the difference between concentration, meditation and contemplation?
- Sri Chinmoy: First comes concentration, then comes meditation and then comes contemplation. … First you concentrate, then you meditate and then you contemplate.
Meditation is totally different. Meditation is vastness. … When you are meditating, you are dealing with what is vaster than the vastest. … During meditation a softness, sweetness and one-pointed adoration will come forward....
- Question: Should we meditate on various subjects?
- You as an individual will meditate upon one thing and I as an individual will meditate upon something … Again, today you may meditate upon peace and tomorrow you may meditate upon joy. … Naturally you will want to meditate on peace. … Every day you can change the subject of your meditation. … And if you are praying and meditating for infinite peace, naturally it will take you more than one day...
- Question: Why do you ask your disciples to meditate on your picture?
- My disciples can meditate on the sky or the sea. Our path is the path of love. … I tell my disciples to meditate on anything that they love, as long as it is something vast. … So since they love my vast consciousness, I tell them to meditate on me. … Otherwise I would have told each person to meditate on himself. … But if I tell my disciples to meditate on themselves, only their egos will be fed....
- Question: When we meditate you ask us to keep our eyes open and look at you.
- You think you are meditating, but you are in the sleep world. … Then I developed the capacity to meditate with my eyes closed or open. … But I feel that meditation with the eyes open is the meditation of the lion. … If you can meditate with your eyes open, that means you are a lion. … If you keep your eyes closed, you are meditating like a cat. Anybody can come and devour you....
- Real joy[^24]
- Then I do my meditation. Then I do singing and I draw. … At six-thirty I go out, again to pray and meditate.
Nothing gives me real joy except prayers and meditations. … When I pray and meditate, at that time I am my true self.
Meditation! My joy is only meditation....
- Question: How can I create and then intensify a greater desire to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: You do not have to create and then intensify your desire to meditate. … Just try to recollect one of the sweet experiences that you have had over the years during your meditation … Reaching a higher state of consciousness is undoubtedly a more fulfilling way of meditation....
- Sometimes when I get in late I feel fine, so I have my morning meditation then, at three-thirty, or four
- If you are not sleepy, do your meditation before you go to sleep for the night. … Three-thirty or four a.m. is the best time to meditate. In India it is called the hour of God. … In your case you cannot avoid going to bed so late, so how will you be able to get up and meditate well...
- Does he have to go to an ashram or a synagogue in order to be successful at meditating?
- Meditation entirely depends on one's inner sincerity. … It is advisable for a seeker to meditate at a certain place at a specific time, but meditation does not...
- Question: When the follower of one religion meditates on the ideals of his religion, will this produce … the same results as when the follower of another religion meditates on the ideals of that religion?
- Also, the meditation cannot be of the same height and the same standard in every religion. … The result will depend on the type of meditation and the ideal of the particular religion, the height … If the ideal is high, and at the same time the meditation is very soulful, the result will be extraordinary...
- Question: Are people growing away from organised religion and moving towards meditation?
- some countries it is true that people are growing away from organised religion and running towards meditation … Over the course of time, many people from various religions have practised meditation without feeling … On the contrary, they saw that meditation increased the power and the light of their own religious beliefs...
- Frank Zane's inner poise
- Olympia title because of his power of concentration and meditation. … But he was always ready because of his inner poise and the strength that he received from his meditation … Others couldn’t fathom it because they didn’t have his power of concentration and meditation....
- Question: Often when I first wake up in the morning, I don't feel happy.
- Sri Chinmoy: For a few minutes after you wake up, for four or five minutes, don't get up; just meditate … Then get up and do your proper meditation. … Otherwise, you will just go back to sleep and you will say that you have meditated for two hours....
- Question: This morning I had a dream in which you asked me to meditate.
- So in order to be satisfied, truly satisfied and fulfilled, I want you to meditate more. … What I told you was not just to meditate, but to meditate more than you have been doing....
- Meditation[^12]
- Since we are seekers, we all need meditation.
Everyone meditates either consciously or unconsciously.
Why do I meditate?
Why do I meditate? … Meditation has a free access to all spheres of life....
- Question: How do we start meditation?
- If we feel that we have a real love for meditation, then we can easily meditate. … We have to grow within us a love for meditation. Meditation is not an object. It is a subject. … We will start meditating. You asked how we can start meditating. … You don’t need any specific meditation now. Only ask yourself the question, “Do I love God?” … consciously to sacrifice your life-breath to God, devotedly and spontaneously, then I tell you that your meditation...