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- I thought of God.God smiled.
I prayed to God.God cried.
I meditated on God.
God became my real God.
- Concentration, meditation and contemplation
After concentration comes meditation. In meditation, we enter into something vast.
In terms of aspiration, the distances between concentration and meditation and meditation and contemplation … Again, many, many people on earth meditate or pray. Prayer and meditation are very similar. … The only difference between prayer and meditation is that prayer goes up and meditation brings down. … Both prayer and meditation are linked by a common goal. Prayer and meditation are like a see-saw....
- Inner purification
- That is to say, during meditation we have to purify ourselves constantly. … meditation. … that we get when we are not in meditation. … Because at the time of meditation everything is intense, sharp, one-pointed. … In order to invoke purity during your meditation, whenever you meditate at home, please try to burn incense...
- I — Meditation
- Question: How can spiritual seekers working at the United Nations make other workers feel that prayer and meditation
- The days you meditate they see something totally different in you from the days when you do not meditate … So the higher and deeper your meditation, the more your face and outer being will radiate. … day after you have had a good meditation. … The day you have meditated well, they will see a tremendous change in you. … you when you do not meditate?...
- Question: If we want to focus on the heart, where is it?
- So if you get joy by meditating on your anahata chakra, then you can meditate there. … If you get joy by meditating on your ajna chakra or any other centre, then you can meditate on that place … to meditate. … You enter into your room and there you pray, you meditate or do whatever you want to do. … There our meditation becomes very deep, illumining and fulfilling....
- 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.” … But please remember that your own aspiration and your will to meditate regularly and punctually at a...
- Question: Do you feel it is necessary to assume a particular posture when you meditate, to sit in
- 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 … Meditation is something new to him and he may not get a satisfactory result all at once, or he may not … 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....
- Question: Could you please discuss how contemplation differs from meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you meditate on a specific divine quality, such as Light, Beauty, Peace, or Bliss in … You are meditating on Peace, Light or Bliss while the express train is constantly moving. … In meditation there is a goal. You are envisioning a goal and meditation takes you there. … But in your highest meditation there is a dynamic movement. … This is the main difference between contemplation and meditation....
- Question: Why is it that you do not give so much importance to occult power the way that Gorakshanath and others have done?
- In Nepal you can visit some of the caves where Gorakshanath meditated. … In these caves it is his meditation-power and not his occult power that you will feel. … Through meditation he developed forgiveness and received tremendous peace. … He just entered into his own meditation once more and became flooded with peace. … It is only from meditation that one gets peace, not from occult power....
- difference between true intuition or spiritual awakening and possible hallucination when attempting to meditate
- Sri Chinmoy: If it is real meditation, if it is sublime and soulful and intuitive meditation, then you … When you meditate, the first thing you come to discover is inner peace. … If it is true, soulful, intuitive meditation, you are bound to feel on the outer plane an exact replica … If it is true, soulful, intuitive meditation you are also bound to feel inner joy. … But if it is sublime meditation, you are bound to feel you have achieved something permanent....
- Is meditation the best way to find this peace in ourselves?
- Sri Chinmoy: Yes, prayer and meditation are the best ways. … We have to pray to God to bless us and we have to meditate on God also to bless us. … Similarly, what we need in the inner world is prayer and meditation. … Through prayer and meditation we can have peace. One must have peace deep within....
- Question: What is the difference between the meditation of the heart, spiritual concentration and
- Three of the main subjects are concentration, meditation and contemplation.
Meditation is another subject. … When the seeker meditates, he meditates on something vaster than the vastest in order to acquire infinite...
- Question: Sometimes I am afraid of meditation. Why is this?
- You have to take meditation as your dearest friend, who is taking you to God. … Prayer is your friend and meditation is your friend. … Meditation is not something to be afraid of; it is something to love, cherish and treasure. … So if you think about meditation in a positive way, if you take it as somebody who is full of affection...
- Question: What is meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is the invocation of some higher force or higher reality into the lower part … The higher and lower parts are both ours, but the higher realities which we try to bring down during meditation … When we meditate, we invoke the higher realities to enter into the lower realities and make them feel … So meditation is the invocation of our higher part into our lower part in order to illumine and convince...
- Question: When we are meditating, is it necessary to place our hands in any special position?
- Meditation should be done inwardly and devotedly. … The main thing is meditation. … When you are meditating, your whole physical, vital and mental existence should be entering into your … meditation....
- When I Pray
When I pray, God gives me the Joy of His Eye. When I meditate, God gives me the Love of His Heart.
- 674. To shorten your journey
- To quicken your faith,
Pray.
To frighten your doubt, Concentrate.
To enlighten your life, Meditate.
To shorten your journey, Consecrate.
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- HERE and NOW, By virtue of my prayer-life And my meditation-heart, I shall get the best view Of my Lord's Feet.
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- The difference between God and me: I hesitate indefinitely Before I speak about God. God meditates most seriously Before He speaks about me.
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- Every day
My mind starts prayingAnd my heart starts meditating
When dawn starts showingIts beautiful and cheerful
Rainbow-colours.
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- When I look upward,
I becomeMy life’s prayer-beauty.
When I look inward,I become
My heart’s meditation-fragrance.
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- When I meditate on God, God says to me: “My child, look, look! I have kept My Heart-Door Wide open for you.”
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- My heart has been Begging and begging my mind To pray and meditate. Alas, now it is exhausted To its very last breath.
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- Only the God-loving seeker Who sleeplessly prays to God And meditates on God Will have the dream Of the ever-transcending Beyond.
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- My Lord sheds bitter tears When I tell Him even playfully That I am unfit to pray, To meditate and to please Him.
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- Each time I do an excellent meditation,
God comes rushing towards meTo show me
His Tears of Light and Delight.
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- If you cannot meditate On your Goal, Try to dream of your Goal At least. It will be of great help To you.
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- On the strength of our prayer And meditation, We can come out of Our mental prison And fly in the sky Of Infinity.
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- After having a long, beautiful And soulful meditation, When I go to sleep, My Inner Pilot watches me With utmost Compassion-Light-Delight.