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- Question: If we have been meditating for a long time, how can we renew our inspiration?
- Every time you meditate, imagine a garden with beautiful flowers. … Meditation does not work like that.
Everything is preparation. … If I want to do a long jump, first I have to warm up by doing stretching exercises and jogging....
- Question: How important is it for a spiritual aspirant to remain physically fit?
- So it is important to run or do physical exercises every day in order to become strong, healthy and dynamic … they were spiritual people, they felt that a healthy body would enable them to continue praying and meditating … Today also we know that if the body is full of sickness, then we will not be able to pray and meditate … Again, if he pays attention only to prayer and meditation and neglects the body, then his body will not … If someone does not get any exercise at all, then the physical will remain unlit, lethargic and a real...
- Question: Sometimes we think that we have surrendered to God, but later we find out that part of our ego has not surrendered at all. It has been hiding and afterwards comes out. How can we attain complete surrender? How can we make all this ego surrender as a whole?
- By taking exercise we develop our muscles. … If we exercise every day, our muscles become strong, stronger, strongest. … This happens through regular physical discipline, physical exercise. … Similarly surrender, which is a spiritual quality, grows by regular exercise. … Let us try, in our conscious meditation, to live in the soul....
- Question: Does the spiritual life actually change the physical form?
- Even while I was in India I took regular physical exercise as well as meditating....
- Question: Does the spiritual life actually change the physical form?
- Even while I was in India I took regular physical exercise as well as meditating....
- Question: Can we do our meditation without doing concentration exercises first?
- Sri Chinmoy: If you want to learn meditation without going through concentration, you must feel that...
- Question: How can we tune in to the particular quality that you are bringing down most in your meditation
- to feel the essence of the flower inside your heart, you will not be able to feel it if you are only exercising … Here you are not letting the heart exercise its capacity. … So, after you have seen a quality during your meditation, do not mentally say that it is power or delight...
- Experiences at the gym[^18]
- Perhaps most of you know that I go to a gym to take exercise, specially for my running, my sprinting. … and on the second floor there are all kinds of machines, heavy-duty machines, where people can take exercise … to me to tell me that he was going to the car to get a press release to show one man who was taking exercise … She has started meditating, so one day perhaps she will come to meditate with us....
- Question: I try to keep my mind from wandering so much during meditation, but I have very little
- Sri Chinmoy: You are not exercising the capacity of your heart; you are only exercising the mind's power
I hope all of you meditate at home. … But meditation is the examination of our body, vital, mind, heart and soul. … They start meditation, and then they begin thinking of their cow. … What kind of result can anyone expect from this kind of meditation?...
- Meditation[^10]
- I wish to say a few words about meditation.
What is meditation? … Meditation is not an escape exercise. … But when we meditate, we do not try to escape. … So silent meditation we must learn.
How do we meditate silently? … Silent meditation is totally different....
- Question: Will the company of a person with a very strong ego strengthen our own ego?
- He is fulfilling his ego by exercising it on you, and you will try to fulfil your ego by exercising it … But by exercising one’s ego one can never be happy and satisfied. … By exercising one’s ego nobody can be happy in the inner life. … Tomorrow when you meditate this good quality will increase. … Otherwise, if one person exercises his ego on you, you will exercise your ego on someone else and he...
- Question: How can we meditate better each time?
- Sri Chinmoy: You know that each time you take exercise your muscles become stronger and stronger. … If you want to make your meditation better, you have to feel a need, a divine need....
- Imagination
- We don't meditate for one month and then we try to imagine what is happening in the inner worlds. … If we want to imagine something divine without meditating, it is useless; our imagination will all be … But if we meditate with eagerness and then start imagining a little, at that time God will show us His … But even if we meditate first and then use our imagination, we should not use our imagination for longer … Also, early in the morning is the best time for us to exercise our imagination....
- Question: Is physical fitness absolutely necessary for progress?
- So you can see how physical exercise done in a soulful frame of mind can help the whole being. … But still I take exercise every day.
I am begging each and every one of my disciples to take exercise or run to keep the body fit in whichever … Let them meditate for as long as they want; I am already 20 million miles ahead of them."
We say, "Easily I can get up at six o'clock to pray and meditate; only I don't want to."...
- Russell Barber: I assume that one doesn't have to engage in physical exercise to achieve a oneness … I mean, a lazy person like myself hopefully could achieve that through prayer and meditation.
- the opportunity to feel peace in the depths of our heart on the strength of our prayer-life and our meditation-life … Prayer and meditation are not only inner experiences; they can be manifested in our day-to-day multifarious...
- Bringing to the Fore Divine Qualities
- Daily I take between 15 and 21 exercises, after my morning meditation and prayers. … Upstairs I do about 11 or 12 exercises, starting with my ankles. … There are two rooms for me to take exercise....
- The physical aspect of life
- Some disciples once upon a time used to run, do sports and take physical exercise, but now they have … At least do stretching exercises. I spend thirty-five minutes a day stretching, stretching! … Please take exercise. Otherwise, age will descend upon you sooner than the soonest. … In the spiritual aspect — that is, prayer and meditation — I do it, I do it. … In my case, I do meditate for hours, and I am deeply involved not only in the inner world, but also in...
- Question: Most people in this area of South Africa suffer a lot because of daily violence. I am interested to hear your views on the causes of violence and any message that you might have as to what we can do about it.
- Because it sees itself as separate from others, the mind always wants to exercise supremacy over others … So we have to pray and meditate to silence our restless mind and to illumine our unaspiring mind....
- Meditation: an introduction
- Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because we need something. And what is that something? … The very first exercise you can practise is to repeat once, as you breathe in, the name of God, or the … But if you want to have more purity, you can do one more spiritual exercise which is most effective. … want to establish purity all around you, within and without, then this is the most effective spiritual exercise
When you are meditating at home, if possible, please meditate all alone....
- Meditation: an introduction
- Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because we need something. And what is that something? … The very first exercise you can practise is to repeat once, as you breathe in, the name of God, or the … But if you want to have more purity, you can do one more spiritual exercise which is most effective. … want to establish purity all around you, within and without, then this is the most effective spiritual exercise
When you are meditating at home, if possible, please meditate all alone....
- Question: Is it possible to bring our meditative consciousness into the work that we do in the outside
- When you take exercise, you develop your muscles. … In the spiritual life also, if each day you practise meditation regularly, devotedly and soulfully, then … Then a day comes when he can sit and meditate for half an hour, then an hour, then two hours; and he … can meditate well more often, not just on rare occasions. … Some people sit, but they are not meditating at all....
- The Christian preacher[^28]
- I was eager to hear the sermon of the great preacher, so I played the tape while I was taking exercise … He said that those who practised Indian-type meditation are possessed by Satan.
Transcendental Meditation in particular he attacked like anything. … He said, “If meditation is something worthwhile, why are they not practising it in India? … The Transcendental Meditation people should hear this tape!
I never learn!...
- The soul's reality[^10]
- When I was meditating early this morning, at exactly a quarter to three Trishakash’s soul came to me … After my conversation with Alo, I took some stretching exercises. … Then I lifted some other weights and did various exercises. … How many exercises I took upstairs and downstairs!
Shortly before 5:30, I went out for a run....
- Meditation[^1]
First of all, why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because we need something.
Let me start with the ABC's of meditation. The best way to meditate is to sit cross-legged. … The very first exercise you can practise is to repeat once, as you breathe in, the name of God, or the … But if you want to have more purity, you can do one more spiritual exercise which is most effective. … establish Purity all around you, inside you, within and without, then this is the most effective spiritual exercise...
- Question: When you say "meditate," do you mean to meditate on something, on some particular god or … How does one who has had no experience go about meditating?
- All those who claim to be my disciples meditate on that picture every day. … I tell them to concentrate and meditate on that picture. … There are some among them who have received specific meditations from me. … Then I shall meditate on your behalf.” So this is how my disciples meditate. … You just exercise your inner strength, inner power, and threaten the monkey....
- Question: Sometimes I can hold my concentration, and other times my eyes close and then I wake up because I'm losing my balance. What can help us have more control?
- This exercise is for everybody. … Naturally, the more energy you can draw inside you, the higher will be your meditation.
If you cannot meditate well, please feel that it is still a necessity to meditate, just as it is a … Similarly, when you sit down to meditate, you also have to feel that it is up to Him. … Meditation is our spiritual food. The Supreme will not give you the same taste every day....
- Question: Is it more effective to pray for peace of mind or for cheerfulness when you are unhappy?
- When your whole being is restless, when you can't meditate even for a fleeting second, when you are full … Afterwards, you can take exercise to improve the condition of your whole body....
- Question: How does a person become a Guru?
- And I started meditating one hour, two hours, three hours. … If you just count the hours, you are not doing real meditation. … When you take exercise every day, you gradually develop muscles. … Then instead of five minutes, you can exercise for an hour. … He meditates on each individual and he spreads the inner Light....
- Question: Guru, with seekers from established spiritual cultures whom we meet around the world, one of the most difficult things is to make them feel how our path is different from the traditional spirituality they were raised with. I am wondering if you could offer some advice.[^3]
- In so many fields, specially with regard to physical fitness and exercise, other spiritual Masters did … is called untiring, ceaseless meditation. … I meditated in my room, I meditated in the street. While cycling I meditated. … Again, while walking you can meditate. … Lord Buddha used to meditate while walking. Afterwards he meditated at the foot of the Bodhi tree....
- Question: My question is regarding manifestation and spirituality. Often, I find that more manifestation means less opportunity to become spiritually stronger. How does one find the proper balance?
So coming back to aspiration, when you meditate early in the morning, even if you meditate for only … fifteen minutes, if you can meditate well, then that meditation-power easily lasts throughout the day … But that meditation has to be very strong.
It is like morning exercise at home. At home early in the morning you take stretching exercises. … Again, if you cannot do your morning meditation well, at least do your evening meditation well....