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- Mu Magazine: There are many meditation teachers and there are many methods of meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: I recommend meditation on the heart. … Many meditation techniques teach us to eliminate worldly thoughts and to empty the mind, but in my case … , I teach my students to concentrate on the heart and to meditate on the heart....
- Question: Sometimes I like to meditate while I am lying down. Is this wrong?
- Sri Chinmoy: I wish to tell you that that kind of meditation is not at all advisable for the beginner … , nor even for those who have been meditating for several years. … Others who try to meditate while lying down will immediately enter into the world of sleep or into a...
- Transcending insecurity
- Today an individual may do the best meditation and his spiritual Master may be partial to him; but tomorrow … if that person does not maintain his standard the Master will have no hesitation in saying that his meditation … Again, if the seeker achieves a permanent standard of excellence and does good meditation all the time...
- Question: What is meditation?
- 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 … Constant and conscious awareness of God — His Truth, Light and Bliss — is called meditation....
- Question: What is the importance of mantra?
- But again, there are many people who do not repeat mantras: they aspire and meditate in a different way … But we cannot say that mantra is superior to prayer and meditation or that prayer or meditation is superior...
- Question: Why should we meditate on our food before eating it?
- Sri Chinmoy: Before eating, it is obligatory to meditate. … Before doing anything it is advisable for a spiritual person to meditate, to think of the Inner Pilot … If we meditate before we eat, then His Compassion descends on us, and His Compassion is nothing short...
- Question: Can we use meditation to increase our creativity?
- Prayer and meditation are the only way. Many people are not born poets or born artists. … But by practising meditation, they bring into their system literary capacities, painting capacities, … musical capacities, because meditation means new life....
- Question: What is the best way to meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: The best way to meditate is to feel that you have come from the Source. … When you meditate, feel that you have come from that Source and you go back there triumphant and victorious … This is the ultimate way of meditation....
- 78 Enervate
- one thing: what is the thing that you are doing wrong which enervates you after you have had a long meditation … Chinmoy: Madal, nothing actually takes away my strength before, during or after a long meditation. … To me, meditation is all energy and all life....
- Interviewer: Reading about your background, I see you entered a place called an ashram. Can you tell me something of your experience there?
- I stayed there twenty years and I prayed and meditated most sincerely. … Here we are on earth, in the physical body, and the Light we receive from our meditation must be expressed … The higher messages that we get from our meditation must have a channel for expression and the body is...
- Question: Is there any way of punishing criminals that is more effective than putting them into jail so that they won't repeat their crimes?
- The spiritual method is prayer and meditation. … If prayer and meditation can reign supreme on earth, then there will be no necessity for putting anybody … Prayer and meditation are the most effective ways to put an end to all crimes....
- Question: Guru, if some disciples regularly leave the Centre meditations before prasad, is it all
- Sri Chinmoy: How long is the meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: If the whole programme is two hours, and they stay for two hours of meditation, recitation … I am happy that the people in your Centre spend two hours at the meditations....
- Question: What is the rational and logic base for your philosophy?
- For that, one has to meditate. … He can meditate in some other place, but he has to meditate, he has to contemplate....
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- United Nations Meditation Group (Room 3401) United Nations, New York, N.Y. 10017
Our Hope for Mankind … President,
On behalf of the United Nations Meditation Group,
I most humbly offer to you our deepest
With our soulful concern, Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Director United Nations Meditation Group The...
- Question: Why doesn't God make all our meditations equally good?
- Sri Chinmoy: You don’t have a good meditation every day, in spite of your best intentions. … Some days you get up and meditate early in the morning at your proper time but real meditation does not … You are trying your best to meditate well, but unfortunately your meditation is not at all satisfactory … Now it is up to Him to give me the best meditation or the worst meditation.” … But please remember that your own aspiration and your will to meditate regularly and punctually at a...
- Question: What is the difference between a thought that comes to you during meditation and an ordinary
- Sri Chinmoy: When you are not in meditation, you will see that each thought or idea is composed of words … But during meditation, if the meditation is deep, you do not need words in order to form an idea. … In deep meditation the idea comes in a flash. Words will not convey it....
- Question: Is the field of art another form of meditation?
- If it is spiritual art, then certainly it is a form of meditation. … write unbearable books or keep your mind in the gutter while you are painting, this is not any kind of meditation … While you are creating, if your consciousness is in the lower vital world, it will not be a form of meditation … divine way to the object or subject that you are involved with, then definitely you are doing a form of meditation...
- 901. In My own Way
- Father, I think of You so much,
Do You ever think of me? “Daughter, I do think of you.
But I think of you in My own Way.”
Father, I meditate on You so much. Do You ever meditate on me? “Daughter, I do meditate on you. But I meditate on you in My own Way.
Father, I love You so much. Do You love me? “Daughter, I do love you. But I love you in My own Way.”
Father, what will happen If You once please me in my own way? “Daughter, if I please you In your own way, Your little ‘I’ will be overfed and fall sick And die before it gets its own Illumination, And Your divine Self will starve, And remain unmanifested. Further, this will engender My immediate death.”
- Question: Do you teach any mantra or any meditation techniques to your disciples?
- But inwardly I do help them when they meditate. … When my disciples meditate with me, or when they invoke me in their meditation, I bring down Peace, Light … and Bliss from Above, and in silence they learn how to meditate properly from within....
- Question: Is it better to concentrate or meditate when running a marathon?
- If you meditate, then you will feel that you are either on the top of a snow-capped mountain or at the … That is the very highest type of meditation, but that will not help your running. … Before you run, meditation is good to make the mind calm and quiet so that wrong forces do not enter. … Before running a marathon, meditation is of paramount importance....
- When I Pray to God
When I pray to God, He powerfully protects me. When I meditate on God, He lovingly promotes me.
- In the Morning I Pray
In the morning I pray to God’s Compassion-Eye. In the evening I meditate on God’s Forgiveness-Heart.
- Each Time I Pray, My Lord Shakes Hands
Each time I pray, My Lord shakes hands with me. Each time I meditate, My Beloved embraces me.
- I Pray to God to Receive His Power
I pray to God to receive His Power.I meditate on God to give Him my love.
- O My Mind, When Will You Start?
O my mind, when will you start Praying and meditating At the foot of my soul’s Peace-mountain?
- May I Find Myself Every Day
May I find myself every dayPraying and meditating
Between a peace-mountainAnd a bliss-fountain.
- Second interviewer: You mentioned the presence of God a number of times, and that would lead to another question: Is this God compatible with every religion that anybody might belong to?
- Meditation also talks about God....
- Question: Do people meditate in Heaven and does their consciousness go up and down?
- Sri Chinmoy: The souls can meditate there....
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- Not thinking, not planning,
But starting right now,I pray to God
And meditate on God.
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- To take a vow of silence
Is not enough —We have to pray and meditate in silence.