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- Question: You spoke of a Guru as someone to help make a short cut in the search for realisation. I find it hard in myself to channel myself in the search. Could you recommend or direct me somehow in a channelling of my energies toward self-realisation, because I find it hard to direct myself in that way.
- Just as you take exercises every day or almost every day, to develop your muscles, you should likewise … meditate regularly without fail, for five minutes, ten minutes, according to your capacity and according...
- Question: Are the souls of your bird drawings created equally, or do the souls of the more elaborately drawn birds have a different quality than the ones that are quickly drawn?
- When a disciple has a birthday, for example, I will very often invite him to sit in front of me to meditate … On other occasions I am only exercising my patience with the hope that after five or ten seconds the...
- Question: You spoke of a Guru as someone to kind of make a shortcut in the search for realisation. I find it hard in myself to channel myself in the search. Could you recommend or direct me somehow in a channelling of my energies toward self-realisation, because I find it hard to direct myself in that way.
- Just as you take exercises every day or almost every day, to develop your muscles, you should likewise … meditate regularly without fail, for five minutes, ten minutes, according to your capacity and according...
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- You go into a meditative state with this picture. … In one of my exercises I do supersetting with a 45 degree incline dumbbell and then go to the Soloflex … I’ll be there in spirit, and I will meditate at the same time as the anniversary celebration....
- Singing and spirituality
- We cannot meditate twenty-four hours a day, or even sixteen hours or eight hours; it is impossible for … But if you have no talent at all, then you can spend your time in meditation and selfless service. … But if you have even a little talent, then I would be very happy if you would practise and exercise your...
- How can I have peace?[^103]
- My sweet Lord Beloved Supreme, every day I pray to You, every day I meditate on You.
“Spread your heart’s meditation-fragrance every day devotedly and soulfully. … They said they wanted power to exercise their supremacy. They did not want peace....
- Question: What should a spiritual seeker do when he observes dishonesty or corruption among his colleagues?[^68]
- But this is not spreading light; this is only exercising our power or displaying our authority. … bring down light from Above or we have to bring to the fore our own inner light through our prayer and meditation … things differently from the way we feel they should be seen or done, then we have to pray to God and meditate … corruption that we are observing, which is a far more serious matter, the first step is to pray and meditate...
- Question: When you meditate and you 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 … humble, and especially when we become pure, at that time we feel that it is God who has inspired us to exercise … In the beginning we give 50 percent of the credit to ourselves, because we got up to pray and meditate … , and 50 percent to God, because He responded to our prayers and inspired us during our meditation....
- God in nature
- Then my wife prepares my coffee and immediately I go to my cello and I do exactly the same exercise as … In your case music has been your prayer, your meditation, your oneness with Nature, with God....
- Question: Is the practice of sports contrary to spiritual tradition?
- are spiritual, you cannot do physical things, and if you are physically active, you cannot pray and meditate … Inwardly you are concentrating and outwardly you are taking exercise....
- Interviewer: What makes sports and athleticism such an important part of spirituality for you?
- Then, because I could not take physical exercise, I become a victim to certain other ailments. … My goal is only to keep my body fit so that early in the morning I can pray, meditate, run or do whatever...
- Question: What would you like our readers to get from the example of your weightlifting?
- No, only I say that physical fitness is of paramount importance, and by taking exercise, one can keep … It is my prayer-life and meditation-life that, through God’s Grace, are enabling me to do this....
- Individuality and personality
- When we exercise too much uniformity, then everything becomes monotonous, mechanical, machine-like — … When you look at someone else during your meditation, you extend your consciousness. … For example, when people meditate in front of me, even if their children are not here, sometimes I see … Sometimes the children feel very deeply moved by the parents’ meditation even when the children are at
Suppose you are doing a high meditation at the Centre....
- Saroja Douglas: Why do many people feel attracted to meditation when it is represented as an intellectual … exercise but shy away from it when they feel it has to do with devotion?
- Sri Chinmoy: Many people are not aware of what the term ‘devotion’ means and they misinterpret it. They feel that devotion is a type of slavery; they feel that to touch the feet of someone is devotion. But this is not true. One is not touching somebody else’s feet; one is devoting himself to a higher cause, a higher reality. So...
- Keep your body fit if you really want to make progress[^6]
- So take exercise, lose weight, those who have to lose weight. … Ramana Maharshi and others said to meditate and meditate.
Even if you do not want to take exercise early in the morning, try to make yourself feel that you...
- I am your spiritual father[^35]
- Because you have belief, you pray and meditate. … But if you want to see God first, before you start praying and meditating, that is absurd, absurd, absurd … Every day set aside one hour for exercise. Out of twenty-four hours, one hour you can give. … Stretching exercises I take for about forty-five minutes or more. … I do all kinds of stretching exercises....
- Mactan-Cebu International Airport — A Sri Chinmoy Peace Airport[^1]
- These last 23 years I have been serving the United Nations with my prayers and meditations. … officials — ambassadors, delegates and diplomats — down to the general staff, who come to pray and meditate … We shall succeed only when we exercise our heart’s capacities. … The mind gets pleasure only in lording it over others, in exercising its supremacy.
Let us pray and meditate to be the beauty of our heart-flower and fragrance of our heart-flower....
- Question: The consciousness of the self is a handicap in the path towards God-realisation and complete surrender. This self-consciousness will limit you in the world of plurality, differentiation and phenomena. Now, this is what we want to transcend because we are searching for that oneness of the Absolute. If we are searching for that oneness, where all differentiation ends and where you will integrate with the universal consciousness, you must try to pull away from these forces that will limit you in the sphere of personality or the ego, that will give you a distorted view of what humanity is, of what the purpose of life is and many causes of differentiation. You are dealing with phenomena that takes place in space and time. But you are not dealing with true values, the eternal values of the real Self. What I mean to say is that when I say that you have to transcend that self-consciousness, it is that you have to destroy this consciousness of the individuality as the "I" or the personality as the "I." You will have to live in a broader consciousness, in a broader vision, otherwise you cannot attain that goal. To reach that goal, we need the Master because the Master will be like a catalytic agent who will bring up those forces that are hidden in the inner Self so that they will flow into view.
- individuality is the highest individual divinity in a person, not showing off how much power a person can exercise … breadth is your personality and height is your divine individuality, if you can concentrate on it, meditate … You see the positive side which is aspiration, purity, divine beauty, concentration, meditation. … Always try, during your meditation, during your conscious life, to feel that you are God’s chosen child...
- Question: Many young people are interested in expanding their consciousness with drugs. What do you think of consciousness under drugs, like LSD?
- Here I have a right to exercise my authority. … I said, “Then you meditate here for a month or so....
- Question: I want to have higher experiences in my meditation.
Vivekananda had prayed and meditated for six or seven years. … I have had my breakfast, my stomach is full, plus I have not taken proper stretching exercises.” … Early in the morning, you prayed and meditated. You did everything good and divine....
- Question: In one meditation you say that if anybody strikes me on the right cheek, I shall not turn
- If I just go on saying, “You have done something wrong; you can do more; you are exercising my compassion … ,” yes, I will exercise my compassion, but in the eyes of God, I will not be allowing him to come to...
- Reflections[^5]
- 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? … If one practices Hatha Yoga, which is the physical exercises, it may help to some extent. … If it were only by practising physical exercises that one could realise God, then everybody would have … When we pray and meditate, we go up high, higher, highest....
- Question: Did you have any inner experiences with the cosmic gods and goddesses when you lifted 1,300 pounds and 1,500 pounds with one arm?
- I go to this side to take preliminary exercises and I hear her telling me that I can do it.
Again, sometimes it can happen that when you have come down from your highest meditation, you have … All the intensity that you had accumulated from the meditation for half an hour or an hour is ruined. … That is the only way to save yourself and preserve all your highest meditation that you had, your good … So often it happens that people lose their highest meditation....
- Question: Is faith something that is given to an individual or something which the individual can acquire through his own actions?
If we pray or meditate we can increase our faith. It is like a muscle. … If we take exercise, we develop the muscle. Inner faith also can be expanded....
- Question: In the beginning I pushed very hard with personal effort, with aspiration, and I thought that this was good. But recently I realised that the transformation that I have already made was not made by me, but by you. So how much do I have to make personal effort and how much do I have to surrender? What should be the balance between personal effort and surrender in my case?
- Yes, I am taking exercise in order to lift heavy weights. … You are doing something — you are meditating most powerfully, let us say....
- Peace, happiness and freedom[^104]
- But what kind of freedom do we have in our day-to-day life, and what kind of freedom do we exercise in … We must pray and meditate regularly in order to have a free access to this Pilot Supreme. … And this surrender-song we can learn only through our soulful prayers and prayerful meditations. … Without a prayerful life and soulful meditation, no one can acquire peace....
- Ego and freedom
- We have to go deep within; we have to pray, we have to meditate. … But we don’t exercise our freedom in that way. … We exercise our power of freedom in a destructive manner, not in a creative manner....
- Ego and freedom
- We have to go deep within; we have to pray, we have to meditate.
But we don’t exercise our freedom in that way. … We exercise our power of freedom in a destructive manner, not in a creative manner....
- Pride: the ancient disease[^1]
- Then Brahman placed a straw in front of Agni and said, “Agni, now exercise your power.
Poor Agni exercised all his power to burn the tiny straw into ashes, but nothing happened.
Vayu exercised all his power, but it was useless. The straw would not budge an inch.
You meditate every day and this meditation feeds you and sustains you....
- A seeker's gratitude
Every evening the Master used to allow his disciples to come and meditate with him. … But my disciples are now meditating most devotedly and soulfully. … If you want to meditate here, either stay in the kitchen or come back into the meditation hall and meditate
The Master went back to the meditation room and meditated with his disciples. … Why should I exercise your compassion by staying with you and accepting your path?...