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- Question: If you want to meditate as well as do Hatha Yoga, should you meditate before doing the … exercises?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you do Hatha Yoga exercises, it is better to do them before your meditation. … After the Hatha Yoga exercises please rest for about fifteen minutes, lying down, and then meditate. … But if you do Hatha Yoga exercises, please do not do more than five or six each day. … If you do Hatha Yoga exercises for an hour and a half and then want to meditate, it will be extremely … difficult for you to enter into meditation....
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- Meditation Is by far The best soul-exercise....
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- Just exercise Your meditation-muscle To become inwardly strong, Stronger, strongest.
- Question: Do several hours of breathing exercises help our meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: Some breathing exercises are of real help to meditation. … But we should not exercise for an hour or two before we meditate. … If we do, by the time we start our meditation, we will be totally exhausted and have no energy left or … If we do breathing exercises for five or ten minutes first, it will be of great help to our meditation...
- Question: How can we conquer laziness and be more active, especially in the morning?
- If you feel that meditation is infinitely more important than your exercises, then you are wrong. … Inside your physical exercise you will find the capacity and the necessity of your meditation. … True, meditation will take you to God-realisation whereas physical exercise will not take you to God-realisation … sublime meditation. … to add to your meditation....
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- When meditation gives me The God-oneness-exercise, Only then am I perfect In my own estimation.
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- Your heart’s aspiration-rocket Will blast off If you can take Your meditation-exercise Seven times a day.
- Delicate hand and powerful hand
- At a quarter to four, I get up and meditate. … Then I go to my second room and do chest exercises 30 times; then quadricep and hamstring exercises. … Then I come back and do stretching exercises for half an hour. Next comes more exercises upstairs.
After this I meditate and play the cello. … Next I do another exercise and then play the Chinese instrument....
- Real joy[^24]
- I take exercise with heavy weights, 1,200 pounds. And I take stretching exercises. … Before seven o’clock I do exercise for two hours. … Again at nine o’clock I exercise for an hour or an hour and a half. … Daily I take exercise for three and a half hours, including stretching.
Meditation! My joy is only meditation....
- How can we wake up and be alert for meditation?
- Before you start to run, you take all kinds of exercises. … We call them limbering up exercises in athletics. … For meditation it is also good to do preparation exercises. … If you try to start your meditation the moment you wake up, you will have difficulties. … This is why it is good for the disciples to meditate at the Centre before I arrive....
- Three meditation exercises
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- Physical postures
- Question: Most of us in the Western world who are not familiar with Yoga and meditation tend to associate … How are these exercises related to spirituality?
These exercises will never give us realisation, Never! … I must emphasise, however, that hatha yoga exercises are far superior to the Western system of exercises … Hatha yoga exercises are done calmly, quietly, in a meditative mood....
- Question: How long should I meditate? … Is fifteen or twenty minutes enough, or should I meditate longer?
A muscle is developed by taking physical exercise. … Meditation is an inner exercise; if you practise regularly, its power increases. … When you take physical exercise daily, even if for only five minutes, you strengthen your muscles. … Then, after a few months you can take exercise for half an hour, an hour or two hours at a time.
It is not how many hours you meditate but how you meditate....
- Franco Columbu: How important are yoga stretching exercises to the mind?
- Sri Chinmoy: If one is practising stretching exercises thinking that he will be able to achieve peace … No matter how many stretching exercises one takes, no matter how many hours one spends stretching, one … Peace of mind comes only from one's prayer-life and meditation-life. … I have a few students who are extremely good at stretching exercises....
- Franco Columbu: How important are yoga stretching exercises to the mind?
- Sri Chinmoy: If one is practising stretching exercises thinking that he will be able to achieve peace … No matter how many stretching exercises one takes, no matter how many hours one spends stretching, one … Peace of mind comes only from one’s prayer-life and meditation-life. … I have a few students who are extremely good at stretching exercises....
- let us say, sitting with his legs crossed, or someone standing on his head, someone doing particular exercises
- But realisation can never be had by merely doing Hatha Yoga exercises. … What these exercises actually do is to help the seeker enter into the true spiritual life. … Concentration, meditation and contemplation are taught in the higher courses.
I must emphasise the fact that Hatha Yoga exercises are far superior to the Western system of exercises … The Hatha Yoga exercises are done calmly, quietly, in a meditative mood....
- let us say, sitting with his legs crossed, or someone standing on his head, someone doing particular exercises
- But realisation can never be had by merely doing Hatha Yoga exercises. … What these exercises actually do is to help the seeker enter into the true spiritual life. … Concentration, meditation and contemplation are taught in the higher courses.
I must emphasize the fact that Hatha Yoga exercises are far superior to the western system of exercises … The Hatha Yogic exercises are done calmly, quietly, in a meditative mood....
- Question: When we go to the track to exercise and you are not there, can that be substituted for … our early morning meditation?
- More than that you don't have to meditate, but only if you are taking exercise with the understanding … , real meditation. … But if it is to show off or to defeat someone, or to get pleasure by taking exercise in the morning, … When I come to take exercise, a hundred people come. When I am not there, only three people come. … or is not meditation....
- My self-appointed task
- That was my spiritual exercise, my self-appointed task. While cycling, I used to meditate....
- Spiritual exercises
- There are quite a few exercises that a beginner can practice.
Each person's soul has its own way of meditating. … My way of meditating will not suit you, and your way of meditating will not suit me. … There are many seekers whose meditation is not fruitful because they are not doing the meditation that … So also when you meditate every day, your soul is being nourished....
- Question: Many of us here understand Yoga to be the practice of certain physical exercises, like
- The benefit that we derive from physical postures and breathing exercises can be attained by other methods … One of these is meditation by itself.
Question: What exactly are these benefits? … Sri Chinmoy: The traditional yogic exercises attempt to place the body in a state of receptivity in order … These exercises are also performed as a preliminary to entering into a higher consciousness. … Nevertheless, it is quite possible to invoke that higher consciousness by meditation alone, without depending...
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- Madal, if you feel that our society is suffering from exhaustion and emptiness, then pray to, and meditate … on, God the Energy, and command your outer sheath to take exercise daily for 15 minutes....
- 74 Effete
- Chinmoy: Madal, if you feel that our society has become exhausted and decadent, then pray to and meditate … on God the Energy and command your physical body to take exercise daily for fifteen minutes....
- Question: Do you concentrate more than once on each metal plate before you lift?
- Sri Chinmoy: How many times I concentrate and meditate! … First, I do lots of easy exercises, along with concentration and meditation. … In front of her picture I concentrate and meditate. … Then I look at myself in the mirror and concentrate and meditate. … Then I hold the bar and concentrate and meditate once more on each metal plate....
- Question: How long should one meditate? How long can one meditate?
- There is no hard and fast rule that we have to meditate for ten or twelve hours. … We should continue to meditate as long as we can do it soulfully and devotedly. … Someone might force himself to meditate for twenty-four hours, but what kind of meditation will it be … Today we may exercise and become tired after five minutes. … After ten days we develop our muscles and we can exercise for half an hour or even more....
- Question: How can we be more active in daily life?
- Sri Chinmoy: Early in the morning we should meditate on God the dynamic Power. … If we concentrate and meditate on God the Power, we will be able to give real life to the time that lies … If every day you are supposed to go to the playground to take exercise, it will give you twenty reasons … Then, when the hour for taking exercise or meditating is past, these forces go away. … The same forces that inspired you not to exercise or not to meditate come and tell you, now it is too...
- Plagued by the Florida lady
- I was meditating very powerfully facing the sea. I meditated for about forty-five minutes. … Now that I had meditated for forty-five minutes, I could go home.
I stood up. … Let me take a few stretching exercises.” … I was taking stretching exercises, moving my arms and so on. At one point I turned around. … Just thirty metres away, the Florida lady was doing the same exercise. I had not seen her before....
- were to accept a seeker who was meant for you, would he be practising or following certain specific exercises
- : In my case I do not give much importance to the physical part of Yoga, the postures and breathing exercises … villages, you will see many, many village boys who will be able to perform hundreds of difficult physical exercises
The exercises do help to some extent.
Physical postures and exercises are like the kindergarten class. … Concentration paves the way for meditation, and meditation paves the way for contemplation....
- Question: If you have a sports injury, for example, a calf injury, is there any way to inwardly heal it totally?
- Sri Chinmoy: Everything has to depend on prayer and meditation. … Then, if you can take minor stretching exercises to strengthen the calf, it may help. … But if the exercises create more pain for you, then I advise you to go to a therapist. … science as possible, and at the same time you have to think of our spiritual science, which is prayer and meditation...
- Are there any exercises?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you know how to meditate well, then it is not necessary. … You can take a few hatha yoga exercises or you can run. That will help you. … But do not confuse your serious meditation with hatha yoga. Hatha yoga is not the answer. … If you are not feeling well or if you are tired all the time, how will you meditate well? … If you take regular exercise, then you keep the body fit....