Meditating as Sri Chinmoy's Disciple

Your Own Personal Guide

What gives life its value
If not its constant cry
For self-transcendence.

Each Master has his own way of teaching his students to meditate. I ask my disciples to begin their meditation by repeating the word "Supreme" a few times. The Supreme is our eternal Guru. If you chant Aum soulfully, it will also help you. In the spiritual life, gratitude is of paramount importance. Early in the morning when you first begin your meditation, take three very deep slow breaths, and while you are inhaling, offer your soulful gratitude to the Supreme for having awakened you and given you the inner urge to meditate. Out of millions of people on earth, He has chosen you to enter the spiritual life; so naturally you are grateful.

You may say that you do not know how to meditate. But I wish to say that once you become my disciple, once you enter into my spiritual boat, then it is the problem of the boatman to take you to the Golden Shore. After you are safely seated in the boat, you can lie down, you can sing, you can dance, you can do anything. But first you have to enter into the boat. Occasionally I give instructions outwardly to disciples who need it. But to most I do not give individual meditations. Instead, when I accept a disciple I concentrate on his or her soul and give the soul an inner form of meditation. I bring the soul forward, and the soul actually meditates in and through the seeker. The soul also convinces the heart and mind to do the right thing, so that eventually the entire being—body, vital, mind, heart and soul—will be able to properly meditate. When I concentrate on the disciple's soul, the disciple is bound to receive my inner instruction. But if the disciple can consciously create a pure vibration and keep a sincere attitude, then it is easier for his soul to remain at the fore and to receive everything from me.