Quotes on Meditation
"We meditate for various reasons. Peace of mind we all badly need. Therefore, when we meditate, either consciously or unconsciously we aim at peace of mind. Meditation give us peace of mind without a tranquilliser. And unlike a tranquilliser, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart."
- Sri Chinmoy (1)
"How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself."
- Sri Chinmoy (1)
"Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction. Transformation of life is the culmination of divine satisfaction. "
- Sri Chinmoy (1)
"When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight."
- Sri Chinmoy (2)
"When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence. "
- Sri Chinmoy (3)
"The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. You like a certain food, I don't like it. You are right in your own way I am right in my own way. But once you know what your best meditation is, please stick to it."
- Sri Chinmoy (4)
"How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away."
- Sri Chinmoy (5)
"When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us. "
- Sri Chinmoy (6)
"When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously"
- Sri Chinmoy (7)
"The Stormy life can be braved
Only by the heart's sunny
Meditations."
- Sri Chinmoy (8)
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"Meditate Silently.
You will be able to create
A totally new life
For Yourself."
- Sri Chinmoy
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" I meditate
So that I can inundate
My entire being
With the omnipotent
Power of peace."
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Cry within. Meditate within.
Dive within.
Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.
- Sri Chinmoy
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Meditation upon the unknown Thought
He thought was real meditation.
No, meditation is not and cannot be
On any thought.
Meditation is a conscious withdrawal
From the thought-world.
Meditation is the place
Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality
Can each claim their own
Perennial existence-light.
- Sri Chinmoy
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My meditation
Is my soul's
Soundless sound-conversation
With my Inner Pilot.
- Sri Chinmoy
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In your outer life
If you can feel
Consciously and soulfully happy
Even while doing
Ordinary, mundane things,
God will consider this
Your real meditation.
- Sri Chinmoy
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Meditation is silence.
Silence is God
In His Infinity's Smile.
- Sri Chinmoy
(1) Excerpt from The Seeker's Mind by Sri Chinmoy.
(2) Excerpt from Prayer-World, Mantra-World And Japa-World by Sri Chinmoy.
(3) Excerpt from Earth's Cry Meets Heaven's Smile, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy.
(4) Excerpt from Meditation: God Speaks And I Listen, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy.
(5) Excerpt from My Heart's Salutation To Australia, Part 1 by Sri Chinmoy.
(6) Excerpt from Two Divine Instruments: Master And Disciple by Sri Chinmoy.
(7) Excerpt from A Sri Chinmoy Primer by Sri Chinmoy.
(8) Sri Chinmoy's Heart Garden
- Learn To Meditate - Meditation Workshop. Suggests guide to learning how to meditate