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- Question: Guru, I often see Light as energy or forcefulness. Would you comment on that, please?
When you meditate, Light is operating in and through you. … The Light which you get during your meditation is not only for your use but for others' use as well. … At that time, we do not possess anything; we just exercise our feeling of oneness....
- Question: How can one have inner peace in the outside world?
- Sri Chinmoy: For that one has to meditate regularly. … If every day you take exercise, you will see that your muscles become strong, stronger, strongest. … You meditate for ten minutes and then go out. … But early in the morning we have to meditate. Everybody has to meditate. … But if we go with a very sound, solid meditation, after we have had a very good meditation, we will feel...
- genuine Western student should go about learning to discover these concentration and contemplation exercises … and the techniques of meditation in order to follow the spiritual path, and run faster than the average
- the spiritual life, if a seeker, who is the student, has the inner cry to learn how to concentrate, meditate … One should always go to a spiritual Master in order to learn concentration, meditation and contemplation … , philosophy, history or some other subject, so the spiritual Master will know about concentration, meditation...
- Transformation
- It gets pleasure only in exercising its individuality. Who needs that mind?
A life of aspiration, a life of dedication, a life of concentration, meditation and contemplation … Each time we pray, each time we meditate, each time we contemplate, each time we do anything, if there … Then only will our prayer, concentration, meditation and contemplation have true value, true meaning, … Prayer and meditation have to embody self-assurance and remembrance of our promise to God....
- Question: What can beginners do about all the thoughts that come during meditation?
- Right now, let us say, your meditation is disturbed by uncomely thoughts. … And if it takes longer than that, you should be happy and grateful that He is still inspiring you to meditate … It is also wrong to expect your mind to become calm and quiet just because you have meditated for two … We can exercise our compassion or we can exercise our wisdom. … This is how we can have only good thoughts from our meditation....
- Question: I have been practising the exercises of prana energy. … Today also, when I was meditating with you, I could not stop shedding tears.
- And the purple light that you are seeing when you meditate means that the delight which you are experiencing...
- Interview with Frank Zane[^3]
[Sri Chinmoy does some warm-up exercises.]
Frank Zane: If we had time, I could show you some good exercises for biceps. … You have great fondness, heart’s fondness, for the Zen type of meditation.
Sri Chinmoy: In the morning I take exercise for over three hours. … I do lots of stretching exercises, all kinds of exercises....
- Question: As we have an angel to watch over us, is there also an evil force that watches over us?
- On the day you have not prayed and meditated, the hostile force becomes like an elephant. … You got up early in the morning and prayed and meditated. You sang spiritual songs. … You took exercise. Everything divine you did. … The undivine way is to say, “I prayed and meditated. … Today of all days, instead of other days when I did not pray and meditate, I have had an accident!...
- Dedication-light
- You meditate early in the morning for five minutes and then you say, "Oh, I have meditated." … But if you can spend at least three hours in spiritual activities — meditation, reading spiritual books … In your aspiration, in your concentration and in your meditation also you have to try your utmost. … If your utmost capacity in meditation is, say, a total of three hours during the morning, afternoon, … You have to know your utmost capacity and then you have to exercise that capacity....
- Question: When we have a choice between using our time for our studies or for spiritual things, which should we choose?
- You must have time for meditation, for selfless service. … Each day you can give two hours for meditation and one hour for selfless service.
Practising spirituality is like exercising a muscle or like learning to read. … But the other brother has all along been developing two capacities: studying and meditating....
- Question: How can I increase my aspiration so that I can feel it all day?
- One way is to meditate for at least ten minutes a day early in the morning. … When you take exercise, if you have been doing 50 pushups, then you try to do 60 or 70. … If you have been meditating well, then try to meditate longer — fifteen minutes or more.
Every day you can meditate on purity. Just repeat the word ‘purity’ devotedly and soulfully....
- Question: If a member of one's immediate family is sick, what is your feeling about praying to God for healing power?
Suppose you pray and meditate to acquire divine power so that you can cure people and help the world … Again, if a remedy for a disease comes spontaneously from within and you don't have to exercise your … If in your meditation, all of a sudden you see inner light, and in this light you get a cure for some...
- Question: How can we best develop the capacity to be able to feel your presence inside our heart as if we are in your physical presence?
- It could be the tennis court or the meditation hall or somewhere else. … He is playing tennis or taking exercise."...
- Lecturers in spirit
He said that the exercise gave him great joy. … Sri Chinmoy was born in Bengal but now lives in New York, where he conducts meditations twice weekly...
- 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: Lifting up human beings looks very easy for you.
- Sri Chinmoy: Prayer and meditation. … I pray and meditate and I entirely depend on God's Grace, God's Compassion. … Prayer and meditation determine beforehand what is needed. … Dream in and through me, and God chose an Australian student of mine as the instrument to build my exercise … for years, but once he develops a haunting voice, he does not have to go through all the preliminary exercises...
- Discourse[^6]
- The very essence of everything you do is meditation. … Kimo’s performance was the result of inner concentration and meditation. … Meditation is a vast subject. … There I spoke on meditation. … But if you exercise your inner will through karate, while you are performing, you are not only learning...
- Meditation for absolute beginners
- Meditation is the only right thing. To meditate is to please Me in My own way.
“My beloved Lord Supreme, I shall meditate; I am meditating.” … And then we shall pray and meditate.
One more exercise. … [Sri Chinmoy repeated this last exercise with each of the successive groups of seekers.]...
- Question: How can I concentrate better?
- So every day before you pray and meditate, try to imagine inside your heart a flame, a burning flame.
Here is an exercise you can try to improve your concentration. … If you can do this exercise, your power of concentration will increase immensely and most rapidly....
- Question: Is meditation a way of having absolute freedom from all attachments which cause us to be
- Certainly meditation will take you far beyond the boundaries of pleasure, which is immediately followed
But in meditation we get Joy, inner Peace, inner Light and inner Delight. … This you can get from a life of meditation.
Meditation will free you from the sea of ignorance. … Meditation will give you everlasting freedom. And this freedom is the freedom of oneness. … freedom is so limited that even with your very limited capacity and limited knowledge you are trying to exercise...
- Messages of peace
In order to reach this goal we shall pray for God's infinite Compassion and we shall meditate for … From our prayer and meditation we shall definitely receive infinite Compassion and Love. … May each human being on earth join the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in their soulful prayers and meditations … for the transformation of the world-mind, the mind that wants to exercise supremacy....
- Pray for protection
- Sometimes you meditate one day, and then for ten or fifteen days you don’t meditate. … Meditation and prayer are just like muscles. … If you take exercise one day, and then for ten days you don’t take exercise, then you cannot become strong … If you take exercise every day you will become strong....
- Pray for protection
- Sometimes you meditate one day and then for ten or fifteen days you don't meditate. … Meditation and prayer are like muscles. … If you take exercise one day, and then for ten days you don't take exercise, then you cannot become strong … Only if you take exercise every day will you become strong....
- Question: You were talking about the New Millennium and how, like in the theatre if you do not go inside at the third bell, then you cannot go inside any more. So for this New Millennium, God's Hour has struck. Can you speak more about this?
- Usually I started meditating at seven minutes past two and continued for two or three hours. … Once while I was meditating, a hostile force took the form of Lord Vishnu. It was most beautiful! … You have to exercise utmost purity from your central being....
- Doubt, faith and aspiration
- As we develop our muscles if we exercise regularly, we can also exercise and increase our inner capacity … If we concentrate and meditate soulfully and sincerely each morning, then doubt cannot play its destructive … By meditating regularly and devotedly we can protect ourselves from the entrance of doubt....
- Question: Our birthday is the happiest day of our life during the year. How can we make every other day until the next birthday just as happy?
- Previously, you could not take exercise with five pounds. … Now perhaps you are taking exercise with seventy pounds, eighty pounds. … Previously even for one minute you could not meditate. … Now perhaps you are able to meditate for five minutes. The key is thought-control....
- Interview — Radio WGY, Albany
- It was her affectionate and emotional demands and commands that she exercised upon me, and I shall always … There I prayed and meditated. So my life was influenced totally by prayer and meditation. … In my case, from my prayer-life and meditation-life I try to get messages from within. … I solely depend on my prayer-life and meditation-life....
- Question: What should we do when we become very tired? I know we are not supposed to drink coffee or tea. Are there any spiritual methods for waking ourselves up or for getting more effective sleep?
- You can do alternate breathing exercises for five minutes.[^1] But do not do it mechanically. … If you can do this exercise effectively, you will need very little sleep. … Since you know how to meditate and concentrate, what is necessary is to feel the infinite expanse of … (1): This exercise is fully described in the chapter on Pranayama in Sri Chinmoy's book The body:...
- A Spiritual Lifter
- Chinmoy uses meditation to heave 1,300 pounds
By Damian Cristodero
Sri Chinmoy sat quietly during … Todd, who has a Ph.D. in sports history, said bodybuilders do the exercise with lighter weights and higher … His strength, he said, comes from an inner power brought to the fore by deep meditation. … is one key to good meditation. … For 60 to 90 minutes, Chinmoy, a vegetarian, will meditate, followed by a rigorous exercise program....
- Serving others
- You take exercise, you eat properly and in this way you strengthen yourself. … Aspiration is the real spiritual exercise. … Before we leave our house and go outside, we pray and meditate to strengthen our inner existence so that
If you want to help the outer world, early in the morning during your meditation you can offer goodwill
From your aspiration, from your prayer, from your meditation, you create a world of your own....