Evening meditation

If you cannot meditate in the morning, the evening is the next best time, because in the evening at least the atmosphere is becoming calm and peaceful. At noon nature is wild and restless, so your...
26 August 2006
Evening meditation

A fixed time is important

Whether you meditate in the morning or the evening, it is of paramount importance to have a fixed time for your meditation. Even an infant will cry for his mother's milk at a fixed hour. If you own...
26 August 2006
A fixed time is important

Q&A: Receptivity

I am not as receptive in meditation as I would like to be. Why is this? Sometimes this happens because our consecration to the Supreme is not yet complete. Sometimes the mind resists, sometimes the...
26 August 2006
Q&A: Receptivity

Inner Joy

Another way to expand your receptivity during your meditation is to try to consciously feel inner joy. If you cannot feel inner joy immediately, then try to imagine for a few seconds or a few...
26 August 2006
Inner Joy

Depend on God

You can increase your receptivity if you feel that you are extremely helpless without the Supreme, and that with the Supreme, you are everything. This idea, this truth you can write on the tablet of...
26 August 2006
Depend on God

A receptive place

One way to get immediate receptivity is to repeat the word "Supreme" in silence over and over again, as fast as possible. First select one place in your body-let us say your third eye-and...
26 August 2006
A receptive place

A child's cry

To create receptivity when you do not have it, try to make yourself feel that you are only three years old-a mere baby. You have no mother, no father, nobody at all to protect you, and you are alone...
26 August 2006
A child's cry

Two Roads to Realisation

Prayer and meditation are like two roads. Prayer is always for our own sake, for our own life, for the near and dear ones in our own small world. If we pray well, God will give us two wings to fly...
26 August 2006
Two Roads to Realisation

Thy Will be done

When we pray, often there is a subtle desire for something, a hankering to get something or to become something. We may call it aspiration because we are praying to become good, or to have something...
26 August 2006
Thy Will be done

The necessity of prayer

If one becomes advanced in meditation, prayer is not necessary. At that time we will realise that God always knows our needs and cares for us infinitely more than we care for ourselves. Prayer is...
26 August 2006
The necessity of prayer

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