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- Abhaya: Christian Science practitioners try to make the sick person conscious that no sickness exists, that sickness is not true. I don't know how they do it, but I have seen people being cured by this method. I would like to know how they do it.
- A real spiritual person who has been meditating for many years and knows what will-power is. … A person who can utilise spiritual will-power, one who can exercise will-power can consciously convince … If he has been in the spiritual life for many years, and he knows what deeper meditation is, and if he … has developed spiritual will-power, which, like a muscle, is developed by continuous exercise, he can … One has to be very experienced in meditation and one has to have considerable spiritual growth to do...
- Interview on "Hawaii Health Line"[^5]
- And Sri Chinmoy is someone who knows a great deal about meditation, the benefits of meditation, and the … I took physical exercises to keep my body fit. … Of course, I took a few Hatha Yoga exercises, but I was very good in track and field, and in volleyball
Interviewer: How about the regularity of meditation? How often should we meditate? … So in order to be strong, healthy and dynamic we run in the morning or do physical exercises....
- Question: I have read your aphorism that says. "When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God." Could you please elaborate on this?
- An individual or a nation feels that by exercising power it is possible to conquer the heart of humanity … But when we pray and meditate early in the morning, if we cherish good thoughts, divine thoughts, loving...
- Question: How is it that the soul cannot make progress in the inner world?[^1]
- The kitchen has food and the meditation room may at times have food. … When all the parts of a huge fitness machine are operating, one can do twenty or forty exercises. … Then twenty exercises I can take at one place....
- Mr CPN Singh, Member of Parliament
- But when we meditate, we meditate on something that is vast, larger than the largest — like the ocean
Or if you find this exercise difficult, just place a tiny circle on a wall at eye level and stand … But when you meditate, you will meditate on something that is very vast. … This is meditation. … Meditation is all vastness and peace....
- Question: Could you speak about the different aspects of the Divine that can be invoked when one breathes through the left and right nostrils?
- when you observe that your left nostril is functioning and not your right, then try to concentrate or meditate
When you do heavy exercise, you will see that both nostrils are functioning equally, At that time, … During your deepest meditation, you need not think of breath at all....
- Daibel Faye: That is very well said. We have seen people who use worldly material power to do wrong towards people. Thank God that those who have the divine power know how to manage that power and will hopefully do what you are doing, which is to promote peace and unity in the world.
- When we use our mind-power, we try to exercise our superiority. … But when we aspire, pray and meditate, we know that if it is absolutely necessary, our Lord Supreme will … As I said before, when I pray and meditate, when I go from one country to another, when I give peace...
- Question: You say that the undivine forces are always vigilant, full of energy and looking for an opening, whereas the divine forces are more complacent because they know that ultimately the Supreme will be victorious. Is there anything that we can do in our lives to inspire the divine forces to be as vigilant and energetic as the undivine forces?
- While we are meditating, if somebody looks at us, our meditation goes up high, higher, highest. … But just because he has noticed Her divine Capacities, She exercises these Capacities on his behalf....
- Princess Diana's spiritual dimension
When we meditated together at the very start of our meeting, I immediately felt that this was the
From my prayer-meditation-life, I wish to offer my personal feeling about Princess Diana’s spiritual … Only from our prayers and meditations do we get the message from within. … She did not want them to exercise their power in the wrong way....
- Question: I was given a mantra and I've been using it in my meditation for a number of years.
- Eventually they gave up their mantra because they felt that it stood in the way of their deeper, higher meditation … Then you should repeat the mantra at the beginning of your meditation. … Sometimes I tell disciples to do Hatha Yoga exercises for ten or fifteen minutes before they enter into … deep meditation....
- Question: Could you speak a little about the secret of yogic breathing or Pranayama ?
- Here is a simple exercise which you can do at any time. … Alternate nostril breathing is a most important breathing exercise.
But if we overdo this exercise, we will get heart disease. … I used to go in the evening to a park near my home to meditate, and I did this. … this Pranayama sincerely and devotedly, then Self-realisation is within the reach of everybody in this meditation...
- Question: What are some of the worst impurities?[^198]
- I cannot think of God or meditate on God. I cannot see the light or the truth.” … He tries to make others think he is sincere by exercising his false modesty....
- About Sri Chinmoy
- Sri Chinmoy himself regularly practises rigorous exercise programmes. … Sri Chinmoy has been invited to open several global sporting events with meditations, including the Pan...
- Question: What is the worst impurity?
- I cannot think of God or meditate on God. I cannot see the Light or the Truth.” This is doubt. … He tries to make others think he is sincere by exercising his false modesty....
- Question: What is the worst impurity?
- I cannot think of God or meditate on God. I cannot see the Light or the Truth.” This is doubt. … He tries to make others think he is sincere by exercising his false modesty....
- Psychic power and will-power
- We shall meditate together and this meditation will be founded on our spiritual imagination.
All present try to meditate on the golden dawn with Sri Chinmoy.
AUM. … Now let us meditate on our forehead. Let us imagine that it is now midday.
Seekers present join Sri Chinmoy in meditating on this blazing sun. … Sometimes before it exercises its power, it enters deep within to get inner light....
- Question: Good morning, Guru. It is a pleasure to meet you. I have always had a curiosity about outer space and other beings outside this world. I want to know if there are extra-terrestrial beings and, if so, what role they play on earth.
If we pray and meditate, if we try to lead a good life, if we try to be good citizens of the world … But if we are always in doubt, if one day we want to be God-lovers and the next day we want only to exercise … But if even unconsciously we exercise our supremacy, then the undivine beings come and turn us into an...
- Seek or find?
- Without proper aspiration we may try to exercise our mind beyond its capacity. … We may try to exercise our dynamic vital beyond its capacity and in that way we may become aggressive … At that time we are praying, we are crying, we are meditating on something which is really sublime....
- Question: How do you learn to concentrate?
- Sri Chinmoy: One cannot meditate well unless one knows how to concentrate. … At first the seeker should not meditate but only try to concentrate. … Then after two weeks, a month, or if necessary two months, he can start meditation.
Please try this exercise to develop concentration....
- Question: How can we remain more conscious in our life?
- In the beginning, perhaps he started with only five minutes of meditation in the morning. … If someone can meditate for two hours at a stretch with perfect equanimity, without losing his mental
We cannot meditate twenty-four hours a day. We have to go to work or to school. … To develop it we must take exercises daily. … if we speak about mundane things, we will not lose the inner wealth that we accumulated during our meditation...
- Concentration, meditation, willpower and love[^5]
Meditation in Kundalini Yoga. … They did not concentrate or meditate on the chakras; they concentrated on God's Feet and meditated on … Meditation is an inner vigilance. … Just meditate on God's Heart, which is all Light. … West, there are many, many teachers who can teach Hatha Yoga and who are extremely good at doing the exercises...
- Concentration, meditation, will-power and love
Meditation in Kundalini Yoga. … They did not concentrate or meditate on the chakras; they concentrated on God’s Feet and meditated on … Meditation is an inner vigilance. … Just meditate on God’s Heart, which is all Light. … West, there are many, many teachers who can teach Hatha Yoga and who are extremely good at doing the exercises...
- Can meditation enhance leadership?[^5]
- Meditation can and does enhance leadership. But we have to know what we mean by meditation. … If meditation means a secluded life, if meditation means only an individual triumph over oneself, this … type of meditation can never enhance leadership.
But if meditation means an expansion of our consciousness, if meditation means that we are of all … He has to exercise his inner capacity; he has to feel the need of this reality....
- Psychic power and will-power[^10]
- We shall meditate together and this meditation will be founded on our spiritual imagination. … [All present try to meditate on the golden dawn with Sri Chinmoy.]
AUM.
[Seekers present join Sri Chinmoy in meditation on the blazing sun.] … Sometimes before it exercises its power, it enters deep within to get inner light. … Then again, the Christ exercised will-power boldly, unfalteringly, unmistakably and with utmost inner...
- Interviews about Lifting the Tallest Horse
Interviewer: How important is meditation in all of this?
Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is of paramount importance. Without meditation, we cannot do anything.
Interviewer: Do you have a regular exercise programme that you want to encourage people to partake
Sri Chinmoy: I take daily two hours of exercise lifting heavy weights. Tomorrow will be my test. … And prayer and meditation help us to inspire people....
- Question: As we physically encounter each other in our daily lives, what can we do to bring peace, love and harmony to our immediate family members and also to those we do not know?
- one who is physically strong does not think of God; he thinks that he is strong because he has taken exercise … He knows that he is spiritually strong not because he has risen early each morning to pray and meditate … , but because God Himself has prayed and meditated in and through him....
- Question: When you meditate and inwardly cry for something, should you also make an effort to achieve
- Why are you getting up early to pray and meditate, whereas your friends are still wallowing in the pleasures … In the beginning we give fifty percent of the credit to ourselves, because we get up to pray and meditate … , and fifty percent to God, because He responds to our prayers and inspires us during our meditation. … humble and, especially, when we become pure, at that time we feel that it is God who has inspired us to exercise...
- Question: How can we surrender to the Supreme?
If you do not have a Master and you practise meditation, then you have to go deep within and feel
So when we pray, when we meditate, the first thing we should do is to get rid of doubts, suspicions … We do have a little capacity; we meditate on God for a few minutes each day. … But are we exercising this capacity or not? … The moment He sees that we are regular in our meditation, that we are sincere and earnest and that we...
- Question: Good morning, Sri Chinmoy. On behalf of myself and our big brother, Narada, I would like to thank you for blessing us with your presence. My question to you is this: what do we need to do as human beings to bring into our families and into our own lives the moral fibre that has been destroyed in the world?
- What we are exercising in our day-to-day life is the love of power. We are all power-hungry.
We have to feel His Presence not only when we pray and meditate, but in our every action: when we … So let us pray and meditate to bring His divine Presence to the fore and let us be ready at every moment...
- psychic powers do not develop or manifest spontaneously in Yogis, but have to be developed through exercises
- time, if a Guru or spiritual Master wants to, he can infuse that power into you without your having to meditate...