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- 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 … village, 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....
- 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 … village, 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....
- The best exercise[^12]
- For me, walking is by far the best exercise. I cannot run, I cannot jog. … While walking, I am meditating most seriously. (12): WCB 54. 15 September 1998...
- Second interviewer: What are some of the exercises?
- But as regards physical exercises, I feel they are not absolutely necessary. … These preliminary exercises help us to a certain extent, but they are not indispensable.
Second interviewer: When we are getting ready to meditate, doesn't the environment have to be just … In the beginning it is impossible to meditate when there are people around who are making noise or who … But there comes a time when you become an expert in meditation....
- Question: Is it possible for us to be consciously aspiring and yet somehow not be aspiring in parts of the being that we are unconscious of?
- For this reason, it is always good to take exercise with both hands. … But when you practise every day, you should take some exercise that uses both hands. … If you take exercise with your right hand, your left hand remains unconscious. … Early in the morning, when you pray and meditate, it may be only your heart’s spiritual exercise. … Awareness comes only through constant inner exercise....
- Exercising and dieting[^5]
- He has made me a vagabond; I can spend time taking exercise. … At that time, I am meditating and meditating. … I am meditating. When you walk or jog, you, too, can meditate....
- Question: How should I do meditation if I have never done it before?
- You don't have to actually do any kind of meditation.
If you have friends who know how to meditate and you meditate with them, even unconsciously, your … When you begin taking exercise, you cannot do it for more than five minutes. … But if you practise daily, then after a few months you can take exercise for an hour or two. … If you can meditate early in the morning at a particular hour, then try to continue meditating every...
- Question: I am familiar with the weightlifting that you have done. Maybe you can give us a little better idea how you prepare for lifting the heavy weights, because I'm sure you don't just work out with heavy weights all the time.
- To start with, I do stretching exercises for forty or fifty minutes. … I just use my prayer, my meditation and my surrender-life to God’s Will. … I pray and meditate and, at the same time, I surrender the results to God’s Will. This is what I do....
- Schonfeld: Does physical exercise go with the meditation?
- I teach my students concentration, meditation and contemplation. … with Sri Chinmoy, an Indian Guru who has a large and growing following believing in the concept of meditation...
- Question: Can anybody practise Yoga?
- Unfortunately in the West, there are many people who think that Yoga means physical postures and breathing exercises … These postures and exercises are preliminary and preparatory states, leading towards concentration and … meditation which alone can take us to a deeper, higher and fuller life....
- Question: If we start at the same time, can we meditate one day for half an hour and another day
- Continue for one month, two months or three months meditating for the same length of time. … Otherwise one day you will meditate for half an hour more and the next day you may not meditate even … So it is like eating or taking exercise....
- Interviewer: What about sports? What does it have to do with your mission?
- We are praying to God to keep our body physically fit so that early in the morning we can pray and meditate … If we do not do sports and take exercise to keep the body fit, then we may become weak and sickly and … Then we will not be inspired to get up early in the morning to pray and meditate. … The most important thing in our life is prayer and meditation, and that we cannot do if we are not physically...
- Question: Sometimes during my meditation something shows me some imperfection in my human nature. … Some event that occurred portrays this imperfection and I have this in my mind during my meditation.
- Do not try to fight it, do not try to exercise your will-power and destroy it. … But do not try to fight it during your meditation. … If you have to fight against something during your meditation, it will not be possible for you to maintain … your highest meditation at the same time....
- Question: Is faith something that increases when we practise meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: If we pray or meditate we can increase our faith. Faith is like a muscle. … If we take exercise, we develop our muscles. Inner faith also can be expanded....
- Preparing to meditate
- — a sacred place which you use only for meditation.
It is the same with using candles during meditation. … Some people do physical exercises and postures. … These exercises, called hatha yoga, relax the body and bring peace of mind for a short period. … If someone is physically very restless and cannot stay still for more than a second, then these exercises...
- Question: I get frequent headaches, and quite often have pain in the back of the neck and in the back.
- Sri Chinmoy: When you concentrate or meditate, what actually happens is that you put pressure on your … So when you meditate, try not to put any pressure on the third eye. God’s Hour has to be respected. … Then, early in the morning if you can do a certain Indian exercise, it helps a lot. … You can learn these two exercises from a Hatha Yoga teacher....
- Question: Can anybody practise Yoga?
- Unfortunately, in the West there are many people who think that Yoga means physical postures and breathing exercises … These postures and exercises are preliminary and preparatory states leading towards concentration and … meditation, which alone can take us to a deeper, higher and fuller life....
- Question: Can anybody practise Yoga?
- Unfortunately, in the West there are many people who think that Yoga means physical postures and breathing exercises … These postures and exercises are preliminary and preparatory states leading towards concentration and … meditation, which alone can take us to a deeper, higher and fuller life....
- Question: Do you notice the results of the work that Vivekananda did in America?
- There is a great difference between Hatha Yoga exercises and ordinary physical exercises, and there is … In the same way, they could have started with real meditation in America. … They ignored meditation and the inner life, so Westerners associated Yoga with only physical exercises … Then the Hatha Yoga teachers, who perhaps never meditated in India, became clever. … But when it is a matter of meditation, I wish to say that many of my own disciples have meditated for...
- Devotion
- As we take physical exercise daily, so also we must take spiritual exercise daily. … Spiritual exercise is prayer and meditation. … In order to increase our devotion we have to meditate daily on the heart centre and we have to feel that...
- Question: How can we work on three or four projects simultaneously and do them well?[^5]
- Every day, early in the morning, I meditate. … Then I take exercise for half an hour or so. … After taking exercise, I practise the cello, the esraj and some other instruments. … Then again I take some more exercise.
Every day I do physical exercise, mental exercise and psychic exercise along with my prayer and meditation...
- For many people, Yoga is nothing more nor less than a set of physical exercises where you stand on your … Are there exercises? Are there physical postures that you try to teach your students?
- The fastest way to achieve this is to concentrate, meditate and contemplate. … If one practises Hatha Yoga, which is the physical exercises, it may help to some extent. … But there are thousands of people, especially in India, who can do all the physical exercises most correctly … If it were only by practising physical exercises that one could realise God, then everybody would have
Spirituality, which is true Yoga, demands concentration, meditation and contemplation....
- Question: Does the body have to be perfect in order to be a perfect instrument of the soul?[^219]
- We become aware of our inner life only through prayer and meditation.
Suppose we want to meditate in the morning. … Western exercises are definitely beneficial, but if we do Indian exercises, asanas, we get a special … kind of relaxation that helps in meditation. … There are hundreds of Indian villagers who can do these exercises, but how many incarnations will it...
- Question: If we are up very late and we feel that if we get up to meditate at our usual time, we … will not be able to get by the next day with that much sleep, should we meditate later or should we meditate … at the usual time and go back to sleep after our meditation?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you have a fixed hour to meditate, the best thing is always to get up at that hour, except … After even three or four hours of rest one can easily meditate. … But if somebody has gone to bed only half an hour or an hour before his scheduled meditation time, then … it will be very difficult for him to meditate, if not impossible. … At that time there will be no meditation; it will only be a mental exercise and a physical torture....
- The yogi's advice[^2]
- with me, get up at three o'clock in the morning and take spiritual exercises to prepare yourself. … Before one runs, one has to exercise and make himself limber. … Five o'clock is your starting time, but before that you must take various spiritual exercises."
"What kinds of spiritual exercises should I take, Master?" asked the seeker. … But in silence you should also do these spiritual exercises that I have just mentioned."...
- The yogi's advice[^2]
- with me, get up at three o'clock in the morning and take spiritual exercises to prepare yourself. … Before one runs, one has to exercise and make himself limber. … Five o'clock is your starting time, but before that you must take various spiritual exercises."
"What kinds of spiritual exercises should I take, Master?" asked the seeker. … But in silence you should also do these spiritual exercises that I have just mentioned."...
- Question: Is Hatha Yoga necessary in concentration, meditation and contemplation?
- Naturally, you will not be able to concentrate and meditate. … By doing Hatha Yoga exercises, we feel that we are regulating and disciplining our life. … But when we meditate properly and life-energy enters into us from our meditation, automatically our life
Just as Yoga exercises will bring calm and quiet, breathing exercises will bring poise. … The seekers start directly with aspiration and meditation....
- First interviewer: I've heard about meditation, but I really don't know too much about it. … This morning our guest is Sri Chinmoy, who is an expert in the area of meditation. … lectured at many universities and written several books on the subject, and he also conducts twice-weekly meditations
- Is it a mental exercise or is it like self-hypnosis? Is it an alternative to religion? … Do people meditate instead of going to church?
Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is not a mental exercise, it is not self-hypnosis and it is not a form of
Sri Chinmoy: I wish to meditate for a few seconds. Then I shall explain how to meditate. … [Sri Chinmoy meditates for a moment.] You just observed as I meditated for a couple of seconds....
- Question: How can we stay conscious when we're sleeping?
- Sri Chinmoy: In your case, since you only meditate a half hour or an hour a day, it is not possible. … And in that meditation one cannot all the time be looking at the clock to see how many hours have gone … One may not watch the time, but he must know that he is meditating at least six hours daily. … It is like exercising the body; every day you take exercise and gradually you develop your muscles. … If you have been meditating for half an hour, you can try to meditate for forty-five minutes or an hour...
- Question: You don't do complicated yoga exercises?
- Sri Chinmoy: We don’t give much importance to complicated breathing or postures, and difficult exercises … People take many exercises for purification. … We pray and meditate; we pray to the Supreme to grant us purity, sincerity, humility and other divine … In our sincere prayer and meditation easily we can get these divine qualities....