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- Question: I meditate on God for many hours at a time, but God never appears before me.
- Sri Chinmoy: In India some village woman may say, "I meditated for six hours or eight hours, but God … But when she starts meditation, what does she actually do? … Then she says, "I have meditated for so many hours." … If I ask her, "Please tell me, what did you meditate on," she will say, "I meditated on God."...
- Those who pray and meditate at the United Nations
- When the disciples go to meditate at the UN in my absence, it gives me such joy. … I take such pride in these Meditation Group members. … They go to meditate in my absence; they think of me, they meditate on me.
- The prayer plant and the meditation tree
- Question: What will give me the best meditation?
- While you are meditating, only feel that you are the soul, you are the soul, you are the soul. … Then your soul will give you the best meditation. … Then the beauty, fragrance, light and delight of the soul will give you the best meditation....
- Question: What is the purpose of meditation?[^85]
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is conscious awareness of God. Here we are all seekers. … When we meditate, we come to feel and realise twenty-four hours a day that we are of God and we are for … To become constantly and consciously aware of God — His Truth, Light and Bliss — is the purpose of meditation...
- Question: But if the soil is dead, it is dead. If a forest is gone, it is gone. If the ozone is gone, it is gone.
- Prayer and meditation mean new life. … When we pray and meditate, at every second we are invoking God’s Compassion. … So He who created this earth can once again create a new creation on the strength of our prayers and meditations...
- Question: If we are trying to go up to a higher plane of consciousness, how can we be sure that we are doing so in God's Way and not just using our own wisdom to go up?
- Sri Chinmoy: From your own soulful prayer and from your own deep meditation you will know. … In the beginning your meditation will tell you that the height of your wisdom and the height of God’s … But when your meditation becomes very deep and profound, you will stop having your own way of thinking...
- Question: When I meditate at the Centre, it is good, but when I meditate alone, I often have the
- At home when you meditate, you have to think of the Centre when other people are meditating. … Then you will be able to throw yourself into your meditation without any fear....
- Question: Is the world progressing spiritually?
- I cannot categorically say that right now ninety percent are meditating and ten percent only are not … meditating or nor spiritual. … People are meditating now in the West. Real spirituality has come....
- Editor's note to cover photo
- welcomes Archbishop Giovanni Cheli, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, to the Meditation … During the ceremony, Archbishop Cheli declared, “Your intentions and your work in this beautiful meditation … Sri Chinmoy, who had met with Pope Paul on several occasions, had opened the programme with a special meditation...
- Question: I want to inform the television audience of the location and telephone number of your Centre.
- Every week we hold special meditations and classes. … On Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. we have a special meditation and a discourse. … On Wednesday evening, we start meditation at 8:00 p.m. and end at 9:30 p.m....
- 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....
- Fourth of July meditation for the Soul of America
- To celebrate America’s 200th birthday, Sri Chinmoy held a 13-hour public meditation for the Soul of America … The meditation began at midnight on July 4th and ended late in the afternoon. … A few days later, a question was asked at the New York Centre about the inner events, at that meditation...
- Concentration and meditation
- Concentration is the Arrow. Meditation is the Bow.
When you concentrate, you focus all your energies upon the chosen phenomenon in order to unveil its mysteries. When you meditate, you rise into a higher consciousness.
Concentration wants to penetrate into the object it strives for. Meditation wants to live in the vastness of Silence.
In concentration, you endeavour to bring the consciousness of your object right into your own awareness. In meditation, you rise from your limited consciousness into a higher and wider domain.
If you want to sharpen your faculties, concentrate. If you want to lose yourself, meditate.
It is the work of concentration to clear the roads when meditation wants to go either deep within or high above.
Concentration wants to seize the knowledge it aims at. Meditation wants to identify itself with the knowledge it seeks for.
Meditation is at its highest point when the seeker and the object of his concentration become merged into one consciousness.
An aspirant has two genuine teachers: Concentration and Meditation. Concentration is always strict with the student; Meditation is strict at times. But both of them are solemnly interested in their student's progress.
Concentration says to God: "Father, I am coming to you." Meditation says to God: "Father, do come to me."
Concentration is the commander who orders the dispersed consciousness to come to attention.
Concentration and absolute firmness are not only inseparable, but are interdependent divine warriors.
Concentration does not allow Disturbance, the thief, to enter into his armoury. Meditation lets him in. Why? Just to catch the thief red-handed.
Concentration challenges the enemy to a duel and fights him out. Meditation, with its silent smile, diminishes the challenge of the enemy.
Concentration and the surface mind dislike each other. Concentration is the father of an inner and outer opening to higher states, while the surface mind wants to stay where it has always been.
The mind that is incapable of concentration is as changeable as the wind and as elusive as moonlight.
When concentration reaches its acme, revelation dawns. Newton saw the law of gravitation in the falling of an apple; Archimedes discovered the secret of displacement and cried out "Eureka!" ; J. C. Bose discovered life in plants, even in metals. The crown of success is attainable only in moments of deepest concentration.
Concentration gives the aspirant two boons. The first boon intensifies the aspirant's experience. The second boon dynamically energises the aspirant's consciousness.
Concentration has two permanent and all-fulfilling palaces to live in. One is in the human mind, another is in the heart. When concentration lives in the mind, it cultivates will-power. When it lives in the heart, it develops spontaneous delight.
Concentration in the heart cries for the psychic being, the all-flowering divine element in the individual. Concentration in the head wills for the wide and silent mind, the abode of spiritual experience and knowledge.
Only that meditation is worth having that remains equally unperturbed in the midst of clamour and in stark silence.
Concentration is an immediate success. Meditation is a lasting success.
- Does what you say about meditating when you get up apply to disciples or do you have a different standard
- Sri Chinmoy: I expect all my disciples to meditate in the morning before six-thirty. … But if you want to give me joy in the physical mind, then please meditate before six-thirty. … If you meditate after six-thirty my inner beings will have to take care of you. … And again, if you meditate in the evening or at night, my inner beings and your inner being will commune...
- Question: What is Christian spirituality?
- In the East we give more importance to meditation. In Christian spirituality, prayer comes first. … In Indian spirituality, meditation comes first. … But the Christ spoke so much of prayer, prayer, prayer, whereas our Krishna emphasized meditation, meditation...
- 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...
- Question: How can a person learn to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: If someone wants to learn how to meditate, either he has to go to a spiritual teacher or … The difficulty here is that each individual seeker has a specific way to meditate. … A book will give general instructions with regard to meditation, but if the seeker has no teacher, he … , the Master will give him at the very beginning the inner guidance that will help him learn how to meditate...
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- In the hoary past seekers used to meditate with their hearts. … the hearts have been destroyed by ignorance-prince, the minds of the seekers have started praying and meditating...
- Question: Can we give it to others by writing about it, and does it help them?
- When we pray and meditate, we do it in silence. … Similarly, when we want to offer the fruits of our prayer and meditation, we can also do it in silence...
- Question: Can true meditation ever become an escape from reality?
- Sri Chinmoy: No, true meditation can never be an escape from reality, for true meditation is the real...
- 1016. To please You most
- My Lord Supreme, To please You most Shall I use my aspiration-cry, My dedication-smile Or my meditation-silence?
- Question: Would you say something about feeling your body in a spiritual way? Is feeling a kind of electric force or wave a spiritual experience?
- But this is not a form of meditation; it is the result or after-effect of a meditation....
- Temporary peace
- Now there is so much peace in the meditation room! … When the birds are in the meditation room, I cannot play any instrument....
- Question: Can true meditation ever become an escape from Reality?
- Sri Chinmoy: No, true meditation can never be an escape from reality, for true meditation is the real...
- When I Meditate, My Heart Confidently Flies
When I meditate, my heart confidently fliesBeyond, far beyond, the peace-sky.
- My Prayer Is My Endless Hope
My prayer Is my endless hope. My meditation Is my birthless and deathless joy.
- My Morning Friend
My morning friend Is my meditation-silence. My evening friend Is my surrender-peace.
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- Mine is the heart That meditates on God For the Smiles of His Compassion-Eye.
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- Only during my meditation Am I able to go beyond The world’s pulls and pushes.