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- Question: Is it better to meditate in the lotus position than in other positions?[^100]
- If you can breathe in properly, you can have a proper meditation in any position. … There are many people who meditate very well while they are seated in a chair. … If you have control over your mind, you can meditate while running, even while lying down. … Meditation is something new to him and he may not get a satisfactory result all at once. … While he is walking, while he is doing office work, he will be meditating on God....
- Question: What is the difference between prayer and meditation?
- But when I meditate, I open my heart, widen my consciousness and allow God to enter into me.
When you meditate, if you keep your mind calm and quiet, you will hear a voice from deep within. … But when your meditation becomes profound, the voice becomes clear and distinct. … We always speak of meditation, meditation, meditation, so the Westerners who follow Indian teachers have … But both prayer and meditation are significant ways of communing with God....
- Meditate before running[^6]
- It is good to pray and meditate one minute before you start. … One girl meditated for ten or twelve seconds, and the others started without meditating.
Kindly try if possible to meditate for a minute. … boys and the girls I wish to say that if you are going to run, at least for half a minute pray and meditate...
- Question: Should disciples accept the service of other disciples?
- By doing something for you, they are doing the equivalent of meditation. … There are disciples who occasionally don't go to meditation because they are working for the Centre. … serving the Supreme in me, they have extended their consciousness and are getting the result of real meditation … Their service is their way of meditation. … Ask them to meditate for five, ten or twenty minutes, and they will enter into the world of daydreams...
- Question: What is the best attitude to have when meditating with others?
- Sri Chinmoy: First you have to know what kind of vibration you are getting while you are meditating with … Here all of you are good meditators. … not feel any resistance, because everyone knows how to meditate in his own way and everyone is meditating
But suppose you meditate with another group. … know how to meditate, or who are enjoying vital thoughts, emotional thoughts, impure thoughts....
- Question: How can we stay conscious when we're sleeping?
- Sri Chinmoy: In your case, since you only meditate a half hour or an hour a day, it is not possible. … And in that meditation one cannot all the time be looking at the clock to see how many hours have gone … One may not watch the time, but he must know that he is meditating at least six hours daily. … If one can meditate consciously for six or seven hours — and not only for a day or two, but for a few … If you have been meditating for half an hour, you can try to meditate for forty-five minutes or an hour...
- Question: If sports people would like to meditate, how should they do it?
The other approach is through meditation. … While I am meditating, the elevator is coming down. … prayer-friend and meditation-friend on your side.
So many world-class athletes pray and meditate. … He has prayed and meditated with me many, many times....
- Question: How can we achieve immediate alertness once we wake up so that we can meditate well?
- Sri Chinmoy: In order to meditate well immediately after we wake up, we must take a few deep breaths, … But, before we actually sit down to meditate, we have to wash our face and clean ourselves thoroughly...
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- You pray early in the morning And meditate early in the evening. Indeed, this is your conventional approach To the spiritual life. But if you feel that this approach Is not offering you Satisfactory results, Then try an unconventional approach: Pray and meditate Any time of the day or night Until God-hunger tortures Your entire being.
- Editor's note
- While he was in Malaysia for three months from mid-November 2005 to 25 February 2006, Sri Chinmoy meditated … morning Sri Chinmoy offered Ongkar his own prayer, which Ongkar would recite out loud during their meditation...
- Question: In concentration we must concentrate on something small and in meditation we must concentrate
- Sri Chinmoy: During meditation we are not concentrating. … Again, inside contemplation there is concentration and also meditation....
- Question: It seems the Christ never meditated but all of a sudden became very high.
- The Christ definitely meditated. What do we know about the past? … During this time he was in India and other places, and he definitely meditated....
- 5037. The paramount questions
- If you pray to God For forgiveness, God will grant you forgiveness. If you meditate on God For another chance in life, God will grant you another chance. But the paramount questions are: Will your haughty mind allow you To pray to God for forgiveness? Will your impure heart allow you To meditate on God for another chance?
- Editor's note to cover photo
- I, too, believe in meditation... … I really believe that in these days of turmoil and strife, we all need something like meditation.”...
- Question: At your Aum Centre, you are preaching life? Is this the idea that I get from you?
- Sri Chinmoy: In my AUM Centre, I teach them, first of all, how to meditate and how to concentrate, so … I also hold special meditation classes almost every evening....
- Note
- the eve of Christmas, 1974, many of Sri Chinmoy’s disciples from all over the world met together to meditate … The preceding picture was taken during the meditation....
- Chetanar Rupantar
Chetanar rupantar ei dhyan nirantar
Translation
My nature’s transformationIs my constant meditation.
- When I Meditate on God
When I meditate on God, I know He is Watching me, standing right in front of me.
- Each Time I Pray
Each time I pray,I am thrilled.
Each time I meditate,I am fulfilled.
- With My Prayer-Cry
With my prayer-cryI purify my mind.
With my meditation-smileI beautify my life.
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- Try to worship God Not only when you are Praying and meditating, But also while you are sleeping.
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- To sit on the throne of time,
Our life has to be armedWith prayers and meditations.
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- When we do not pray and meditate
Regularly,God’s heavy Sighs
Devour His living Breath.
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- When I pray and meditate sleeplessly And breathlessly, God blesses my mind With a moonlit sea of peace.
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- First pray and meditate For the awakening Of your inner life, And then play In your life-garden.
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- Since I do not pray and meditate Regularly, How can I expect God’s Arrival At my heart-door?
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- If we do not pray And meditate regularly, Then we are bound to face An army of misfortunes.
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- Deep within each heart There is a secret and sacred shrine Where the seeker can pray And meditate.
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- If we pray to God And meditate on God, Then our life’s responsibility-weights Become lighter and lighter.
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- Meditation not only leads us To the world of fortune, But also makes us Citizens of fortune-land.