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- Question: When they come down, do these souls appreciate your outer activities?
A mother may give birth to several children, and each one eventually exercises its own freedom and … Only you may not be conscious of this because your meditation is not deep enough to see where your inner...
- Religion, spirituality and yoga[^3]
- Religion is the house, spirituality is the living room, yoga is the prayer and meditation room. … The house is beautiful, the living room is meaningful, the prayer and meditation room is fruitful. … They cry to God in their prayer and meditation room for boundless Peace, Light and Bliss so that they … They meditate on God so they can manifest His perfect Perfection in and through themselves. … I am great because I can exercise God’s Justice....
- Religion, spirituality and yoga
- Chapel
26 October 1975 Religion is the house, spirituality is the living room, Yoga is the prayer and meditation … The house is beautiful, the living room is meaningful, the prayer and meditation room is fruitful. … They cry to God in their prayer and meditation room for boundless Peace, Light and Bliss so that they … They meditate on God so that they can manifest His perfect Perfection in and through themselves. … I am great because I can exercise God’s Justice....
- Religion, spirituality and yoga[^2]
- Religion is the house, spirituality is the living room, Yoga is the prayer and meditation room. … The house is beautiful, the living room is meaningful, the prayer and meditation room is fruitful. … They cry to God in their prayer and meditation room for boundless Peace, Light and Bliss so that they … They meditate on God so they can manifest His perfect Perfection in and through themselves. … I can exercise God’s Justice. I can punish the rest of the world if so is the Will of God....
- Question: When people in the outer world see you lifting heavy weights, does it do something to their consciousness?
- At times it is difficult for the inner world to manifest itself only through prayer and meditation. … After that I meditated a little. At 3:15 I started taking exercise. … While taking exercise, I am thinking of God, my Beloved Supreme. … Daily I spend quite a few hours exercising on the physical plane. Then I compose songs....
- Meeting With Beth Day Romulo
- That is meditation. … This is what meditation does for us. … They were praying and meditating while I was playing. I also prayed and meditated while playing. … First I take exercise. Then I run, lift weights and play tennis.
My prayer-life and meditation-life can never end....
- Question: I would like to stop finding fault with others, but sometimes the work that I have to do — for instance, proofreading — requires looking for others' mistakes.[^174]
- have to know whether you are trying to show off your superior mental capacities or whether you are exercising
So let us pray and meditate for the illumination of our mental darkness and for the transformation...
- Question: What do you believe happens when we die?
- The soul makes us aware of the inner wealth when we meditate and concentrate. … But a day comes when the soul is in a position to exercise its divine qualities....
- Question: The situation in Bosnia deeply troubles me and I have been meditating very much in the
- At every moment we are exercising our individual will. … God’s Will we can know by virtue of our prayer and meditation and by virtue of our conscious self-giving...
- Question: Are the cosmic gods still cursing each other and fighting with one another as they did in the Puranas?
- They used the power aspect of God right and left to exercise their supremacy — to conquer others and … They wanted to throw the gods out of Heaven, so they prayed and meditated in a most austere way for years...
- Question: What can a seeker do to become sincere?
- But we can develop this quality, just as an athlete develops his muscles, by exercise. … If we pray and meditate early in the morning, then naturally God will grant us the thing that we need...
- The heart, the mind, the vital and the body[^9]
- They take physical exercises or they make friends with the Mother Earth and the cosmic energy. … With ritual prayer and meditation we can dive deep within and hear the constant message of and from the … Through our prayer and meditation we can embody Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure and then,...
- The heart, the mind, the vital and the body[^67]
- They take physical exercise or they make friends with the Mother Earth and the cosmic energy. … With prayer and meditation we can dive deep within and hear the constant message of and from the soul … Through our prayer and meditation we can embody Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure and then,...
- Question: Is there anything in particular we can do to live up to our fullest potential?[^4]
- By thinking of the Highest and by meditating on the Highest. … Expectation has to be actively and dynamically fulfilled by entering into exercise: physical exercise … , mental exercise, vital exercise or spiritual exercise.
You can also try to remember how many times you had your highest meditation. … Out of those, select only one meditation that was absolutely your highest....
- Question: Guru, in the morning prayer that we are supposed to say every day, the second half says, "When I see my Master's God-smiling eyes, my God-realisation-hope blooms..." Because I have no conception of God-realisation, I can't really relate to the second half of that mantra.
- But you can and do love God; you can and do pray and meditate, even though right now God remains for … It is the most difficult subject, but whoever is praying and meditating sincerely, or even insincerely … In the spiritual life also, we start with prayer and meditation. … During our prayers and meditations, our soul or the Supreme tells us inwardly what should be done. … Afterwards, I went downstairs and did my exercises.
This is no cock-and-bull story. Believe me!...
- Two strangers
The Master, who always exercised his endless compassion to help disciples who were depressed for days … For fifteen minutes you exercise your compassion. Fifteen minutes is a long time. … If the person doesn't snap out of his depression after fifteen minutes, then you exercise your justice-power … It was almost time for evening meditation, and everyone had to go home and shower. … He also had asked them to meditate for two minutes and pray for the Supreme's Protection before driving...
- Question: When I make a resolution, how can I have the determination to follow through with it?
- If we set the alarm clock in order to get up early in the morning to pray and meditate, then we have
God is all the time exercising or expressing His own Capacity, Compassion and Grace through human … He has kept us on the path, that He keeps us from time to time thinking of Him, praying to Him and meditating...
- Question: After we have been on the path for many years, all the things that we have to do for our spiritual progress start to become just routine. How can we regain the same intensity that we had when we were new disciples and we thought that we could reach the goal very quickly?
- In the same way, every day you are meditating, every day you are taking exercise, every day you are running … You have allowed the mind to exercise its supreme authority. Use the heart. … On the strength of your prayer and meditation you are trying to identify yourself with God’s Will. … Others can exercise their mind and make it vaster than the vastest. … From within, from your prayer and meditation, you will get the inner message, “This is good; this is...
- Interview — New Jersey Talking[^7]
- They wanted me to offer a meditation at the beginning of the programme and then offer roses to all the … At the age of four I started praying, and when I was seven years old I started praying and meditating … Since then, I have been offering prayers and meditations at the United Nations and I have offered over
I feel that world peace can come into being on the strength of our prayer and meditation. … We cannot change the minds of others by exercising our mental power or military power or any other kind...
- Question: Guru, what is more important: inspiration or imagination?
- We can meditate to be inspired. This is one way. Again, we can pray to be inspired. … The artist prayed and meditated and then got the inspiration and imagination to capture that Cosmic God … and continues meditating. … Then he can exercise his imagination and remember that ten or twenty years earlier he had a very sublime … He was only thinking about them and meditating, meditating, meditating on those experiences....
- Mr. Edwin Ross: How long have you been in the United States, Mr. Ghose, Chinmoy Ghose?
- One of these methods is meditation.
The traditional yogic postures and breathing exercises attempt to place the body into a state of receptivity … But with meditation we can bring down these higher forces into the body....
- Question: How can we have less competition and more harmony among the disciples?
- At that time you will say, “I get up at 7:00 or 8:00 and then once in a blue moon I meditate. … You are taking exercise for your own progress, for your physical fitness. It is necessary....
- Question: Please explain the relationship between karma and fate.
Now another method you can adopt to obliterate the law of karma is the exercise of will, adamantine … It is adamantine will-power which we get through aspiration, through meditation....
- Stupidity, insecurity and fear[^20]
- In my outer life I try to exercise supremacy over others; I show my undue and unauthorised authority. … Only a life of prayer and a heart of meditation can cure you of your long-cherished ignorance-dream....
- Spiritual power
- Unless and until we exercise our inner power, the power of the soul, our life will remain in bondage … During our meditation, we have to invoke power in order to create a new life within us....
- Stupidity, insecurity and fear[^77]
- In my outer life I try to exercise supremacy over others; I show my undue and unauthorised authority. … Only a life of prayer and a heart of meditation can cure you of your long-cherished ignorance-dream....
- Spirituality and art
- This is the only way I can exercise supremacy and lord it over you. Goodness does not do this. … I have been a seeker from the dawn of my life, praying and meditating to realise the ever-transcending...
- Spirituality and art
- This is the only way I can exercise supremacy and lord it over you. Goodness does not do this. … I have been a seeker from the dawn of my life, praying and meditating to realise the ever-transcending...
- The Master's best poems
- If somebody is not able to meditate well, he will be satisfied with the kind of poem I write that says … For example, let us say that I have exercised considerable freedom — not like a mad elephant, of course … After his morning meditation he will read one particular poem and feel that this is one of my best poems...
- Ego and emotion[^3]
- We feel that we get will-power from concentration and meditation. … We concentrate, meditate and contemplate to attain will-power.
As I said before, from concentration, meditation and contemplation we derive divine will-power. … This is what happens when we exercise our divine will-power. … The divine will-power says, “I am exercising my inner will to bring my divinity to the fore....