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- If you forget to take Your meditation-medication, How will you be invited By Infinity's illumination?
- Work, Pray And Meditate Soulfully
- Work, pray and meditate soulfully. You are bound to remain happy And make most satisfactory progress.
- Since I stopped meditating
- Alas, since I stopped meditating My soul-bird has been crying On my dead life-tree.
- 2204. To pray
- To pray sincerely Is better than to receive. To meditate soulfully Is better than to achieve.
- 4779. An answer
- A soulful moment of powerful meditation Is an answer To a day of ruthless confusion-thoughts.
- 4564. Prayer is the cry
- Prayer is the cry Of a sorrowful heart. Meditation is the smile Of a soulful life.
- 1547. My needs
- What my prayer needs Is a patience-tree. What my meditation needs Is a gratitude-flower.
- 2 November 2006
- Each prayer comes from earth's heart-tears.
Each meditation comes from Heaven's soul-cheers.
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- A moment of gratitude offered to God is an hour of most intense meditation on God.
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- Self-offering comes from our prayer to God. Self-faith comes from our meditation on God.
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- Each time I have A profound meditation, My entire being beams With a oneness-fulness-smile.
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- Sri Chinmoy conducting a meditation session at All Angels’ Episcopal Church, at 251 West 80th Street....
- Question: Why do I sometimes become afraid after I've had a good meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: When you do good meditation, sometimes you feel extremely happy and delighted, and sometimes … When you are meditating on the heart, if the meditation has also included the mind, the vital and the … But what happens sometimes is that you meditate well only in the heart. … During the meditation you are inside your heart; you are quite satisfied with what you are doing and … So when you meditate, meditate on the heart....
- Question: How can we know whether we are meditating well or not?[^98]
- Sri Chinmoy: We can easily know whether we are meditating well or not just by the way we feel about the … in a loving way in spite of its imperfections, then we can know that our meditation was good. … do something and become something good, this indicates that we have done a good meditation. … be sure that we were meditating well. … It is our own creation, but we have forgotten it, and it is meditation that brings it back....
- Question: You say we should meditate in the heart, but I find it easier to meditate in the mind.[
- Sri Chinmoy: If you find it easier to meditate in the mind, then do so. … may meditate very powerfully for only one minute. … If you meditate in the heart, you are meditating where the soul is, and the soul is the source of constant … When you concentrate or meditate in the heart, you get much more inner satisfaction than when you meditate … Meditation in the mind can give it to you....
- As I understand it, if you are meditating properly, light or knowledge will come from outside sources
- Meditation is something else. … You say that it is extremely difficult for you to meditate. … That is because you are trying to meditate inside your mind. … It is always advisable to meditate in the heart. … Then your meditation can be meaningful and fruitful every day....
- Question: How do you teach us to meditate?
- Outwardly I have given meditations to only a few; but inwardly I have given meditations to many, many … How do I give meditations? … and why to meditate. … different meditation. … We can meditate together for an hour or two a week, but daily meditation is also of paramount importance...
- Question: Guru, very often I feel full of love and joy before I fall asleep. If I want to go to bed early and I turn out my light, I may remain awake without any conscious thoughts except gratitude. But I am worried about getting up in the morning. I want to be rested, but instead, I get maybe three or four hours of sleep.
- Why don't you try to meditate again? … If you cannot fall asleep and undivine thoughts are not bothering you, if you don't feel like meditating … thoughts are not entering into you, then the best thing is for you to study and prepare yourself for meditation … God has given you an opportunity to meditate more. But on the following day are you tired? … thoughts, no disturbing elements, then you should be very happy that you can utilise that time for meditation...
- Meditation
- Meditation is the language of God. … If you want to communicate with God, then meditation is the language that you must speak. … When you go deep within, into the deepest recesses of your heart, you commune with God through meditation … Thinking has nothing to do with meditation. … When you go beyond thinking with the help of your aspiration and meditation, only then can you see and...
- Prayer and meditation
- Prayer and meditation are medicines to cure us. … In meditation we do not do that.
When we meditate, it is nothing like that. … In the East we pay more attention to meditation. … When I meditate, God talks and I listen....
- Question: Is it bad to eat right after meditating?
- When you meditate you take in inner food — Peace, Light and Bliss.
So please try to rest for half an hour after meditating, before you eat. … Also, if you want to meditate after eating, please wait at least two and a half hours. … meditate. … So I feed him first and then he does his meditation well."...
- Question: I would like to know how to overcome negative thinking, both during meditation and during
- We may be vigilant for ten minutes a day during our meditation, but the rest of the day we are totally … At that time we are no different from the ordinary people all around us who never meditate.
You can throw doubts and negative thoughts aside if you can constantly remember your meditation. … During all of your ordinary activities try to remember your soulful meditation and do not forget the … strength when you do meditate....
- Question: Why is it that sometimes when I sit down to meditate it is very spontaneous, but other … times it is so difficult to get into a meditation state?
- the spiritual life also, especially in the beginning, it is next to impossible to have a successful meditation … Now, how is it that every day we can not meditate well? … Then we will not have to suffer from having a poor meditation even one day. … And finally the time will come when we will be able to meditate spontaneously at any time. … After some time, after a few years, we will become one with the consciousness of meditation....
- Question: Practically speaking, how does one go about learning how to meditate?
If you want to aspire intensely and meditate regularly, you need more inspiration and more aspiration … He himself will meditate on you. … If he meditates on you for a minute or two daily, then he will offer you the capacity to meditate for … It is the Master who increases the power of meditation and aspiration in the seeker. … But to start off in the field of meditation, I advise you to read books....
- Question: I have meditated on the pictures of many Masters, but I did not get any strong feeling
- Or while you were meditating, perhaps you did not meditate in a very receptive consciousness. … Perhaps you are meditating with only mental inquisitiveness or curiosity. … In the meantime, since you are not sure, please continue meditating on the different Masters. … Meditate one day on one Master and the next day on some other. … will meditate on at some time in the near future....
- Question: Sometimes I don't have the inspiration to meditate. How can I create it again?
- Sri Chinmoy: Think of the time when you had your highest meditation, three months ago, or yesterday, … After a while, imagination will grow into reality, and you will enter into deep meditation. … You can immediately increase your aspiration by thinking that through your meditation you are feeding … If you have that idea, immediately your heart will compel you to meditate....
- Question: When I start to go deep within, I feel sleepy.
- While you are meditating, your mind is entering into the world of calmness and silence. … However, if meditation proper has not yet taken place, if you feel sleepy when you are merely preparing … to meditate, it means that inertia and sloth are present. … But if it is after a good meditation that this feeling comes, it is not sleep at all....
- Question: Does each person have a different way of meditating?[^88]
- Sri Chinmoy: If you want peace, then you have to meditate on peace. … If you want love, then you have to meditate on love. … If you want joy or any other divine quality, the best thing is to meditate on it. … Each individual will have a different way of meditating because his mind or his heart will want different...
- Question: I used to meditate for half an hour every morning, but recently I have only been meditating … Is it better to meditate longer?
- Do you think if you meditate more than fifteen minutes and still maintain your height that it will not … If you can meditate for half an hour instead of for fifteen minutes, certainly it will be better for … They meditate on the hands of the clock rather than on their hearts. … Then, after you develop the power of concentration, you can meditate on your heartbeat in any part of...
- Question: How can we meditate well?
- Sri Chinmoy: Let us try to feed the Supreme with our meditation and aspiration. … For my disciples, the easiest and most effective way of doing a good meditation is to enter into me, … Also, to get a good meditation, one has to have inner discipline and one has to know what the truth is … If God-realisation is your sole wish, then I wish to say, please meditate well....