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- Realising that the ability to surrender is 99% dependent upon grace, I have been using part of each meditation … In view of the fact that you have said that prayer is a lesser form of devotion than meditation, I wonder
- I have not said that prayer is a lesser form of devotion than meditation. … What I stated was that prayer is a lesser form of aspiration and that the rung of meditation is by far … Since you are meditating devotedly, you are undoubtedly doing the right thing....
- Sri Chinmoy conducts public meditation, 12 April 1975
- At 8:00 p.m. there was a public meditation in the McMillan Theatre of New York City’s Columbia University … All those present meditated in sublime silence except for an occasional interspersing of spiritual songs … evening, Sri Chinmoy showed and dedicated eleven large paintings to the soul of America, as this public meditation...
- 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 were not in a very receptive consciousness. … Perhaps you were meditating with only mental inquisitiveness or curiosity. … In the meantime, since you are not sure, please continue meditating on different Masters. … Meditate one day on one Master and the next day on another Master. … you will meditate at some time in the near future....
- Question: Sir, do you feel it is necessary to assume a particular posture when you meditate, to sit
- If you can breathe in properly, you can have a proper meditation even while you are lying down. … 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, while talking to people; but if you … While he is walking, while he is doing office work, his mind is on God, he is meditating on God. … When you start to meditate, what happens? If your mind roams, then you have to be very careful....
- Prayer
Prayer has a soulful brother, meditation. Prayer's God is high above. … Meditation's God is deep within. Prayer's God is greatness and goodness. … Meditation's God is fulness and oneness. Prayer is the strongest intensity in a seeker's life. … On the strength of my meditation, I bring God to me. … Meditation's ultimate goal is God-Eternity's Silence-Beauty....
- Question: How do people meditate on your path?
So, when you meditate, you try to open the heart and the entire being. … Only then can you really have a good meditation.
Our progress will be faster if we meditate on the heart. … And even those who will not fit in with our path can try to meditate on the heart. … It is not only our path which emphasises the importance of meditating on the heart....
- Question: What do you recommend for beginners?
- When you are meditating, in the beginning thoughts will come. … or what you are supposed to do in your evening meditation. … You do not actually have to meditate, only remember. … This remembrance itself is a form of meditation. … meditate at home early in the morning or in the evening....
- Prayer
Prayer has a soulful brother: meditation. Prayer's God is high above. … Meditation's God is deep within. Prayer is the strongest intensity in a seeker's life. … Meditation's God is fulness and oneness. When I pray, I speak to God devotedly. … On the strength of my meditation, I bring God to me. … Meditation's ultimate goal is God-Eternity's Silence-Beauty....
- Question: I've been trying to meditate for some months now, but have been troubled by restlessness
- You may say that your mind also wants to meditate, but this is not true. … The physical mind does not want to meditate. … from your meditation. … Only you have to give your conscious concern to your meditation. Treat meditation like a child. … Similarly, please offer to your meditation your love and concern....
- Question: It seems that during our group meditations, especially the early morning meditations, everyone … is falling asleep instead of meditating.
- As soon as you come to meditate you should feel that you have come to the starting point in your race … When you sit down to meditate, feel that the starter has just fired the gun and now is the time for you … what most of you do is feel that once you have gotten out of bed and taken a shower and come to the meditation … So please do not feel that you have done your part just by coming to the meditation. … , you will never be able to meditate well....
- Question: When you call us up in front of the room to meditate facing the other disciples, what is
- Sri Chinmoy: When you meditate in front of the disciples, you have to feel that your spiritual brothers … When you stand and meditate with your utmost devotion, immediately they are inspired by you. … When you have that kind of feeling, that you are inspiring and being inspired, then your meditation will … But do not meditate on the disciples. You know that I am behind you. … I am looking like a judge, to see whether you are meditating or not....
- Meditation Group meetings?
- If you are tired, you will get from your meditation new energy, new enthusiasm, new promise. … Meditation is a process to awaken or acquire the energy that is not within you at this moment or the … In meditation, you invoke cosmic energy. The energy that we have most of the time is very limited. … But in our case, meditation constantly supplies us with energy, for it has the capacity to enter into … It is most important to come to meditation regularly....
- Question: What is the highest meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: The highest meditation is when you do not have any thoughts at all. … Right now when we are meditating, we are victims to many thoughts: undivine thoughts, ugly thoughts, … But when we do the highest meditation, at that time it is not like that. … That is why we do not need thoughts or ideas in the highest meditation. … This is the highest type of meditation....
- Question: What is your view on fasting?
- We also have to meditate properly. We have to offer our inner life to God. … It will also aid us in our concentration and meditation. … In order to increase our inner cry we have to meditate regularly and devotedly. … If we meditate, then purification is bound to come. … Then, in our meditation and contemplation we get the results of fasting....
- Question: Do you feel pain while you are meditating? Do you feel any pain?
- Sri Chinmoy: If somebody strikes you while you are meditating, will you feel pain? Am I correct? … Now, if it is the highest type of meditation, you will not feel any pain because at that time you are … So, when you are doing your best meditation, your highest meditation, you are not in the physical, you … On the contrary, when he sees that you are meditating, he will come and he will also start meditating...
- 4.
- My meditations cannot satisfy You.
What else, then, can I do for You To satisfy You?
“My child, How do you know That your prayers and meditations Are not satisfying Me?...
- Question: Should I pray for purification of the mind?
- When you pray and meditate, consciously pray or meditate on purity inside the heart first....
- 139. Perfunctory
- Madal:
Chinmoy, every day, being very busy, I meditate for fifteen minutes in a rather perfunctory … If you meditate in a mechanical and soulless way, your God-Realisation will always remain a far cry....
- My bus experience
- I was only meditating and meditating on the moon....
- 90.
- My Lord Supreme,
They say that there is always a short cut. Can You not bless me with a shorter than the shortest distance to realise You?
Or is there any secret meditation You can give me so that for one day a week
I shall meditate and get the seven days' results?
This is how I think I can rest on my laurels!
— Charlie Rebich
- Donna Halper: So the person on the phone should just keep on trying, and ultimately...
- Learning meditation is like learning anything else. One cannot become an expert overnight.
Donna Halper: So in meditation you have to practise?...
- 7 July 1999
- My Lord Beloved Supreme, I feel Your Presence inside my heart Even when I do not Pray and meditate … But, my Lord Beloved Supreme, Your Presence I feel inside my mind Only when I do pray and meditate...
- Question: Can we give our happiness 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 should also do it in silence...
- Interviewer: How does meditation help in this peace mission of yours?
- Sri Chinmoy: How will we get peace without prayer and meditation? There is no other way. … When I meet with politicians of the highest order, we meditate together and try to bring about inner...
- Interviewer: Is there one thing that inspired you to do all these small drawings of birds?
- I pray and meditate. … From my prayer and meditation I receive inner messages and inner inspiration to compose songs, write...
- Examiner: How did you get involved with the United Nations?
- spoke to the authorities and got permission for me to be of service to the United Nations by conducting meditations … Twice a week we pray and meditate there. Sometimes I give talks and answer spiritual questions....
- A U.N. worker recognises me[^13]
I have never seen this man at our meditations there. … He went and told his wife, “This is the meditation teacher.”...
- What is the actual nature or technique of meditation? What does one do when one meditates?
- When a seeker starts meditating, he has to feel that his mind is pure, his heart is receptive and his … So with these things a beginner starts his meditation....
- Question: Did your feeling about weightlifting change as you started to do it? Do you now like it?
- As I said, I pray and meditate. … As soon as I pray and meditate, I become a devoted instrument of God, and then automatically I become...
- Russell Barber: We have another videotape here that shows some of your other efforts at meditation … Are you trying to give us examples of how, through meditation, we can find God and achieve amazing things
- Through meditation we can find peace. … If we pray and meditate soulfully, then we can transcend all our barriers — mental and otherwise....