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- Question: Is there any value in associating with spiritual people?
- Then you will see that your meditation becomes most valuable, most soulful. … You will have a most powerful meditation. … When you take exercise regularly, your muscles become strong. … It is in group meditation, collective meditation, that you can easily strengthen your will-power. … Then, when you become an expert in meditation, you can meditate alone....
- Studying with Sri Chinmoy
Bishop Kennedy: Speaking about meditating together reminds me of the problem of meditating alone. … It is like exercise. If we take exercise regularly, we develop powerful muscles. … Then we can exercise for two or three hours. … But in the beginning, if we want to take exercise, we get tired after five minutes. … of prayer and meditation....
- Question: Is contemplation what develops when we do breathing exercises?
- Sri Chinmoy: There are three stages: concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Now, we should start with breathing exercises. … And then we feel the necessity for meditation. … When we enter into meditation, we see vastness before us, all around us, and we try to enter into that...
- Sri Chinmoy must be a runner as well as a meditation Master.
- So every day we run or do physical exercises in order to become strong, healthy and dynamic. … Again, our prayer and meditation also help us in our running. … Through prayer and meditation we can develop intense will-power....
- Question: Do you have any practical suggestions for athletics, especially for the workers at the restaurant?
- So while you are working at the restaurant, you will pray, you will meditate. … While you are walking from one corner to another, feel that you are taking exercise. … They do not focus their attention on either the exercise aspect or the spiritual aspect, so this kind … While you are working, you can inwardly meditate, not outwardly. … If you start meditating outwardly, everything will be burnt....
- Interview
- He is the founder and director of the meditation group at the United Nations in New York and an exponent … He is an accomplished composer and performer of music for meditation. … And Sri Chinmoy is someone who knows a great deal about meditation — the benefits of meditation and the … There I practised prayer and meditation for twenty years, and also I gave much importance to physical … exercise to keep the body fit....
- Question: Is there a different technique for women and men when it comes to meditating on purity?
- Sri Chinmoy: When the girls meditate for purity, they should try for a few seconds to breathe through … But the exercise that I just mentioned applies both to men and women....
- Question: Do you work also in a political way to bring about peace?
- silent for a few days, a few months or even a few years, but the very nature of the mind is to try to exercise … I will not dare to try to solve the problems in Bosnia and other places by exercising political means … I have my own way, which is to pray and meditate to bring about peace. … But we feel, in the inmost recesses of our heart, that the way of prayer and meditation is best for us...
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- Once upon a time, many of you used to run, do sports, physical exercise, stretching exercises and so … At least do some stretching exercises. Otherwise age will descend upon you sooner than the soonest! … Five or six days a week, I spend thirty-five minutes taking stretching exercises and then I do my weightlifting … The spiritual aspect — prayers and meditation — I do it, I do it. … In my case, I do meditate for hours and I am also involved in the inner world and in many other worlds...
- The Master’s Discipline
- Right after my morning meditation, either at 3:00 or 3:30 or 4:00 – it depends on my meditation – I sing … After that, I do ten different exercises on various machines, followed by stretching exercises and lifting … For two or three minutes, I pray and meditate. Then I take one, two, three exercises on a machine. … Then I take all kinds of hand and leg exercises.
This is how my morning starts. … The very first thing I do is serious meditation....
- Bowing and bowing
- Then I would have to bow a second time to show that the meditation for that particular individual was … So yesterday I had very good neck exercises!...
- Question: How can we maintain the light feeling of soulfulness we get while singing spiritual songs after we have stopped singing?
- By exercising your imagination-power.
In the morning you meditate at six o'clock. … But if you can imagine that the prayer and meditation that you did at six o'clock are still living inside … your heart, then you will get the benefit of your prayer and meditation throughout the day. … Then, during your evening meditation try to recollect all the good things that you have done during the...
- Question: Does illumination come all at once?
- We have to exercise for a few months or a few years before we develop very powerful muscles. … In Buddha's case, he meditated under the Bodhi Tree for six months. … Before that he had meditated in various other places. … They meditated for fifteen or twenty years. … In the case of Buddha, he had meditated for many, many years in previous incarnations before he realised...
- Question: What is spirituality and meditation? Is spirituality peace?
- Meditation is our conscious attempt to become consciously aware of God. … But if we do the same things consciously, it is called exercise; we develop our strength. … Similarly, if we consciously meditate, then we feel God, see God and talk to God....
- Question: If we are only meditating for fifteen minutes each morning, is that really enough for God-realisation
- We have disciples who say they meditate for twenty hours. … You develop your physical muscles by taking exercise. … In my family, two or three members meditated more than I did. … In my case, meditation became spontaneous. … It depends on how intensely and deeply you meditate....
- Question: How much importance should we give to physical exercise in comparison to our regular work
- So when you are here taking exercise or practising sports, you have to think that this is the only thing … practise sports, feel that this is the most important thing, more important even than selfless service or meditation...
- Joel Martin: But somebody can also say that if I lift weights and get stronger physically, then why do I have to be concerned with peace? I can use that strength to be aggressive.
- If I get strength only from the physical — by taking exercises and so on — I may become aggressive. … But if I get strength from my prayer-life and my meditation-life, I will not use it for destruction....
- When you came to realisation, was it a sudden thing during meditation or what?
- When we take exercise regularly, we strengthen our muscles and become very, very strong....
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Now I wish to ask you, are you taking allround exercise or are you doing specific exercises for a … Do you take exercises with weights or do you do free exercise? … For the landing, you do not need my exercises. … People will think that you are praying or meditating, but you have to feel that your whole body has become … You should do these exercises five days a week....
- Question: Sometimes when I approach you in person or when I try to approach you in meditation, I
- These are like the stretching exercises. … If you do not do the stretching exercises, if you do not jog, how will you run the fastest? … You have to start with spiritual exercises, like japa.
Again, in the beginning you have to do japa or other spiritual exercises, like singing some spiritual … If you sing a few soulful songs, these are your stretching exercises....
- Question: In one of your books you said that four hours of sleep is all you need if you are meditating
- When you exercise your physical muscles, they become stronger. … Similarly, if you pray and meditate, you can get a kind of inner power. … Gradually you can increase the length of your meditation. … Then meditation itself will give you the power to remain awake. … Meditation will strengthen the nerves. We have 86,000 subtle nerves....
- Question: What is the role of Pranayama in the spiritual life?
- There are many who do not go through breathing exercises before meditation. … The only breathing exercise a spiritual aspirant really needs is to try to breathe in purity. … But to go through many vigorous exercises is not at all necessary for God-realisation....
- Question: Before beginning meditation and concentration, I was wondering if there should be a specific
- The very first exercise you can practise is to repeat once, as you breathe in, the name of God, the Supreme … But of course, these exercises should not be done in public or where other people are trying to meditate … Pranayama is a traditional yogic discipline with many serious, complicated breathing exercises. … If you do the exercises improperly, you may develop tuberculosis. … But these exercises that I am telling you about — the one-four-two count and alternate nostril breathing...
- Question: How much importance should we give to the physical exercise in comparison with our regular
- So when you are here taking exercise or playing games, you have to think that this is the only thing … you play a game here, feel that this is the most important thing — not to do selfless service or to meditate...
- But in my meditation I cannot go beyond love, so how am I ever going to reach devotion and surrender?
- It is like taking exercise to increase your muscle power. … Prayer and meditation are like exercise in the spiritual world. … You can easily strengthen your love for God by virtue of your prayer and meditation. … But when the meditation is over, all their expectations and demands come forward. … When we meditate, we increase our inner vision; we increase our love for God....
- Question: How can we stop thoughts from bothering us during meditation?
- We can call this a kind of inner exercise....
- Question: About two weeks ago, a Hatha Yoga Master came to the United Nations and said that first you must conquer and overcome the body and only then can the Supreme be manifested. What are your feelings about this?
- We become aware of our inner, spiritual life only through prayer and meditation.
Suppose we want to meditate in the morning. … Western exercises are all right, but if we do Indian exercises, asanas, we get a kind of relaxation that … helps in meditation. … But one can become expert in the Indian system of exercises without attaining any spiritual advantage...
- Question: How many hours do you sleep?
- I take lots of exercise. … feel that if we are physically fit, then early in the morning we will be able to get up to pray and meditate...
- Question: What do you mean when you speak of unconditional surrender to God's Will, and how can we develop this quality?[^134]
- It takes a few months of constant exercise to develop very powerful muscles. … It takes continual daily exercise, and that exercise is our prayer and meditation....
- Question: What do you mean when you speak of unconditional surrender to God's Will, and how can we develop this quality?
- It takes a few months of constant exercise to develop very powerful muscles. … It takes continual daily exercise, and that exercise is our prayer, our meditation....