Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the West after moving to New York City in 1964. Chinmoy established his first meditation center in Queens, New York, and eventually had thousands of students in 60 countries. A prolific author, artist, poet, and musician, he also held public events such as concerts and meditations on the theme of inner peace. Chinmoy also advocated athleticism to achieve spiritual enlightenment, including distance running,...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 August 1931
CountryIndia
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.
Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.
Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.
Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.
When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.
Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.
At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.
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 .
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.
Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.
Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.
When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.
When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.