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- 7. Prayer-cry
- A tree is the seeker’s
Prayer-cry.
A flower is the seeker’s Meditation-smile.
A fruit is the seeker’s Realisation-song.
- 16 June
- My evening descends And lovingly teaches me How to pray to God, How to meditate on God And how to love God Unconditionally.
- 9. I shall wander no more
- I shall wander no more. I shall collect my inner strength. I shall cover the world and its length In my meditation-core.
- "I adore the Father's Son"
- My poems and meditations on the Saviour Christ
An extract from The Son
Songs to the Saviour... - 2.
- Concentrate!Humanity will like you.
Meditate!Divinity will love you.
Contemplate!
Humanity will adore you and Divinity will cherish you.
- 9.
- My prayer is my continuously powerful intensity for my Lord's Compassion.
My meditation is my constantly soulful intimacy with my Lord's Satisfaction.
- I shall wander no more
- I shall wander no more. I shall collect my inner strength. I shall cover the world and its length In my meditation core.
- Miss Lillian welcomes the Meditation Group
- Meditation Group's public concert that evening. … [To the members of the Meditation Group] Good afternoon. … It took my best to sit still, much less meditate. I'm not much of a meditator.
Sri Chinmoy: But you have meditated with me extremely well. … When you meditate, you completely bare your mind, don't you?...
- Obedience was my way of life
- I want you to meditate. From now on you must meditate regularly every day.” … I shall always do everything for you if you pray and meditate. … Prayer and meditation are of tremendous importance.
“It is difficult or impossible for the prayer-life to embody the meditation-life, but the meditation-life … Right now you should both pray and meditate....
- Question: If people do not consciously pray or meditate, but they use their heart to love humanity
- Sri Chinmoy: What is meditation? Expansion of the heart. … Meditation means to dive deep within and claim the whole world as your own. … Is that not also the aim of meditation? … If one is having a good meditation, will he say, “Let my own will be done”? No! … Prayer and meditation are two roads. When I meditate, I bring down God....
- I have read a few books but I am a beginner in meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy: You are coming here for the first time, and you have read many books, but have not meditated … for their meditation. … A seeker should always meditate on what inspires him most. … coming from within and telling me that that person meditated at this hour and so forth. … The easiest way to meditate for my disciples is to concentrate on my picture....
- The flight of birds[^16]
- For a few days I meditated while riding my chariot round and round and round in the hotel. … Now I find I have better meditation when Savyasachi drives me in the car.
Always in the morning Savyasachi and I leave at six o’clock to drive, and at that time I meditate. … At that time, when I am returning, I have practically finished my meditation — it is a matter of only … That is why I go out driving in the car to meditate....
- Question: Is it a good idea to compare yesterday's meditation with today's?
- Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is like running along a path. … The disciples have to meditate regularly, devotedly and powerfully; and while they are doing this, they … But they don't make it a point to see how long they meditated yesterday or how intense their meditation … Meditation means self-offering. And when we have self-offering, we do not make any comparisons....
- Question: What do you mean when you speak about our highest meditation?
- My highest meditation may not be as high as somebody else’s highest. … According to my own standard, today I may have my highest meditation; then tomorrow perhaps my meditation … will not be so high, and the day after tomorrow my meditation can be lower than the lowest. … When we have our own highest meditation, it is because on that day our love for the Supreme, our devotion...
- Question: Sometimes when I meditate I feel as though I am being drained of energy, and I go into
- It is not good to be tense when you meditate, but you are going to the opposite extreme. … When you meditate you have to make a conscious effort. This does not mean an aggressive effort. … But in your case, while you are meditating you are unconsciously enjoying a kind of lethargy in your … When you meditate please feel that there is someone who is watching you. … He is only watching how sincerely and devotedly you are praying and meditating....
- Question: How do you meditate?
- Sri Chinmoy: Each Master has his own way of teaching his students how to meditate. … In his conscious observation and conscious acceptance of light, the seeker enters into profound meditation … And in his profound meditation he sees the purification, transformation and illumination of his life. … So it is the soul’s light that actually meditates in and through the seeker. … But each spiritual Master has his own way of teaching meditation....
- Question: I have wonderful meditations with you and then go home that night and have very vital and
- Here in meditation you will seek light, and this light has to enter into your vital to purify it. … When you get light and bliss from your meditation, when you enter into the vital world, there is every … When you have a wonderful meditation, try to bring the light from your meditation into your vital dreams … Let your dreams be purified by the power of your meditation....
- Question: Our Centre meditations are from seven-thirty to nine o'clock, an hour and a half.
- Sri Chinmoy: Do you have silent meditation for an hour and a half? … If at seven-thirty the meditation starts, and by seven-forty people have not come, they have to sit outside … , not inside the meditation hall. … During the meditation and other activities, they will not be permitted to enter. … If the meditation starts at seven-thirty, the disciples should arrive by seven-forty....
- Question: At home, how can we tell when we have meditated long enough?
- Sri Chinmoy: When your meditation is only ten minutes old, during these ten minutes if wrong forces enter … transform, illumine or purify the wrong forces that enter into you, that is the best time for you to stop meditating … Recently we have adopted the best method: to meditate for five or ten minutes, then relax for a few minutes … strength, willingness or capacity to transform, illumine, destroy or purify the wrong forces during your meditation … At that time you have to feel that you have meditated enough....
- Question: When I meditate after six-thirty in the morning, I don't feel that it's as rewarding as … when I meditate earlier.
- Early in the morning is the best time to meditate, and the earlier the better, provided you can be fully … Each person should have a fixed time for his morning meditation, but it should not be after seven o'clock … But there are many who can easily get up before seven o'clock to meditate, but don't....
- Question: What is the best way to be in a divine consciousness when we are working very hard?
- At the end of each hour, no matter what is happening, for three minutes be alone and meditate. … If you can meditate for three minutes and get peace, light and confidence, then for an hour you can easily … You can be inside a room or in the street, but nobody should be with you or around you when you meditate...
- Question: What should I meditate on before I enter a classroom to teach?
- Sri Chinmoy: Please meditate on the Supreme in each student of yours. … You do not have to meditate on each student individually, but try to feel them all as a single being … meditating right in front of you....
- Question: How should I meditate before I enter a classroom to teach?
- Sri Chinmoy: Please meditate on the Supreme of each student of yours. … You do not have to meditate on each student individually, but try to feel them all as one being meditating...
- Question: How can we use our imagination to see our soul?
- By imagining and imagining our high, higher, highest meditation of the past, we can enter into that high … meditation once again and give new life to our present meditation....
- Interviewer: You are very relaxed for a man who has just lifted that amount of weight. It is incredible! Do you mind if I check out your muscles?
- That is why I am saying that my weightlifting achievements are all due to concentration and meditation … You may think that concentration, prayer and meditation are only for the inner life. … From meditation and concentration we can get inner power, and this power can be used in the physical...
- Caller: I find that when Sri Chinmoy speaks about meditation, it sounds very familiar and very normal … , although I always thought that meditation was something quite remote.
- Sri Chinmoy: It is a wrong conception that meditation is something abnormal, or that we have to enter … When we pray and meditate properly, we feel that there is only one family, and that is God’s Family. … We have to meditate in the heart, with the heart, to bring forward the soul....
- Editor's note to cover photo
- At a recent meeting of the Meditation Group at the United Nations, Sri Chinmoy greets his long-time friend … On many occasions Rossides has ardently championed the cause of the Meditation Group and, over the years … At one gathering of the Meditation Group, Rossides said, “I want to praise Sri Chinmoy for what he is...
- Question: Can a spiritual dream be as beneficial as meditation?
- new dawn, a new birth, this kind of dream is nothing short of a vision and it is as good as a high meditation … Such a dream is not only as good as meditation, but far surpasses meditation....
- Question: How can we achieve that?
- Sri Chinmoy: It is through inner meditation that we can achieve it. … Quite often we meditate on the things that give us satisfaction. … But from now on, we have to meditate only on the things that give God satisfaction....
- Question: I've always thought that the people who did some work using their hands were more conscious than others.
- He who prays and meditates well has more capacity to do things consciously. … However, if you are meditating while using your hands, you become infinitely more conscious. … Meditation is consciousness itself and it makes us conscious....