The Need for Regular Meditation 26 May 1970

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Sri Chinmoy gave the following talk in the Peace Room of the Church Center for the United Nations on May 26, 1970.

All of you kindly try to meditate twice a day for at least ten minutes in the morning and evening. If you meditate twice a day, you will feel abundant peace, light, and bliss deep lnside you.

We feed our body twice or three times a day. Inside us is the divine child, which we call the soul, but this child we very often neglect. When it is a matter of the soul, we clearly manage to forget our duty. We do not feed it even once a day. Then what happens? When we do not feed the divine child in us, it becomes weak and helpless. Then we cannot reveal and manifest our inner divine qualities.

The divine light is within us , but where? It is deep inside, concealed, hidden. We have to bring it to the fore. We have to manifest it in our own lives and we have to offer it to the world. Then only does our spiritual fulfilment take place. Otherwise, we remain unfulfilled and God also remains unfulfilled.

The divine qualities that we have within us have to be brought to the fore and offered to the world at large. The world is God’s creation; the world is our brother; the world is our sister; the world is our mother, our father, everything. We have to share our inner wealth with the world, with the members of our family.

Those who are praying, concentrating, meditating daily, are feeding their souls. When the potentialities and possibilities of their souls are manifested in the outer world, divine reality blossoms. In divine reality we see the real face of Truth, the real face of Perfection, the real face of our divine oneness with God the Creator and God the Creation.

Try to meditate every day for a few minutes in the morning and in the evening.

In the evening when you meditate, please meditate either one and a half hours after the meal or fifteen minutes before the meal. If you meditate before the meal, then rest for ten or fifteen minutes to allow the higher light, the higher power that you have invoked, to be assimilated. Otherwise, the light, the power, the peace that you have brought down will all be dispersed. If you prefer to meditate after eating, please wait at least an hour and a half. After you have had a full meal, immediately you will relax, your consciousness will become heavy and your meditation will be no meditation. The 17 nerves in our subtle body become very heavy, very sluggish after we eat, and they do not function properly. So your meditation will never be successful and soulful right after eating.

If you don’t want to do high meditation or serious meditation, then you can meditate any time.

Everything depends on how sincerely you want to make progress. Every day, every second, you can make progress if you have sincere aspiration and, at the same time, if you have opportunity. Some people are really sincere, but they do not get ample opportunity because of karma and the cosmic laws. But, if the cosmic laws are in our favour, we get opportunity also. This opportunity takes the form of a teacher.

The spiritual teacher is like a private tutor. He helps us to pass the examination. The real spiritual Master is he who plays the part of a private tutor. When the student has to take the exam, he has to face ignorance. Ignorance says, “Where are you going? You have stayed with me for so many years.” At that time you have to say, “No, I have passed beyond you. I know what you have offered me. Now I want to learn something more. You can’t teach me anymore. I am going to my inner wisdom.”

Those who have sincere aspiration and also have the opportunity to have a helper, who is the spiritual teacher, are divinely lucky.

In a tug-of-war, if there are two people against one person, naturally the two will win. Against you is ignorance and with you is your own sincere aspiration and also opportunity. So, when you have opportunity, sincerity and aspiration, ignorance will be defeated. But again, if one is extremely sincere, either today or tomorrow he is bound to reach his goal.

If you are sincere, then sooner or later God will grant you the necessary opportunity. So let us try every day to meditate early in the morning at least for ten minutes and, if possible, in the evening also for ten minutes.

Regular meditation is absolutely necessary for those who really care for God and who feel the necessity of God.

AUM. AUM. AUM.