Inspirational Quotes by Sri Chinmoy (Indian Yoga Teacher, Writer)

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
Topics: Meditation

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one’s utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Excerpt from The Seeker’s Mind
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

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
Topics: Meditation

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
Topics: Meditation

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
Topics: Meditation

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Ignorance

My meditation Is my life’s Intensity-profundity- Experience-delight
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Excerpt from Prayer-World, Mantra-World And Japa
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

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
Topics: Meditation

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity’s Smile
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Problems

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Excerpt from Earth’s Cry Meets Heaven’s Smile
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one’s life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Sympathy

Choose a friend. He will help you. Alas, he deserts you. Choose an enemy. He will fight against you. Lo, he corrects and perfects you.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Enemies

Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfilment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfillment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

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
Topics: Meditation

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Knowledge

My meditation-silence Expedites My God-Peace-Home return journey.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

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
Topics: Meditation

During meditation if you can really make yourself feel that you have only the heart, or if you can feel that you do not even have the heart, but that our whole existence from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head is the soul, then you will see that the mind does not exist. But if you annot feel the presence of your soul, you can easily feel your heart’s presence and your heart’s glow. When you see light glowing in the heart or n the soul, you can rest assured that you have already transcended the intellectual mind. At this stage you have entered into the illumined mind, hich is very different from the reasoning, intellectual mind
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example: advice.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Advice

True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others.
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Success

Life is a boomerang. It brings you back what you send out. It is a child, not an old person, who makes progress in life. If you really want to become a child, then you have to feel that there is always something to learn and that God is there to teach you.
—Sri Chinmoy

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
Topics: Meditation

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create A totally new life For Yourself
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself
—Sri Chinmoy
Topics: Meditation

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