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by Sri Chinmoy TVWelcome to Meditation-Silence, a meditation with spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy. Listen to the silence within you and learn the ancient art of meditation.
Recent podcasts
"Inner Hunger" - episode 12
11/09/2007
“Successful meditation entirely depends on our inner cry. When a child is hungry, really hungry, he cries. He may be on the first floor and his mother may be on the third floor, but when the mother hears his cry she comes down immediately to feed the child. Let us take meditation as an inner hunger.” —Sri Chinmoy
"Silent Meditation" - episode 11
25/06/2007
“When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity, movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence.” — Sri Chinmoy
"The Beginning" - episode 10
05/04/2007
“When we start meditating, first we try to reach our own inner existence—our true existence; that is to say, the bottom of the sea. Then when the waves come from the outside world, we are not affected. Fear, doubt and worry and all the earthly turmoils will just wash away because inside us is solid peace. Thoughts cannot touch us because our mind is all peace, all silence, all oneness. Like fish in the sea, they jump and swim, but leave no mark. So, when we are in our highest meditation, we feel that we are in the sea and the animals in the sea cannot affect us.”
"The Control of Breath" - episode 9
12/03/2007
"When you breathe in, try to breathe in as slowly and as quietly as possible. The highest type of spiritual breathing is to breathe in so slowly and quietly that if somebody placed a tiny thread in front of your nose it would not move at all. Again, it is most important that this breathing be done in a very conscious way, not in a mechanical way. While breathing in as slowly as possible, feel that you are breathing in not just air but cosmic energy. Feel that tremendous energy is entering into you, and that you are going to use it to purify yourself: your body, vital, mind and heart. Feel that there is not a single place in your body that is not being occupied by the flow of cosmic energy. It is flowing like a river inside you."
"Pranayama" - Meditation Exercise - episode 8
25/02/2007
"Some breathing exercises are of real help to meditation. Pranayama is a traditional system of controlled breathing in India. Prana is the vital energy, the life-breath; yama means control. Pranayama is the control of the life-breath. The very first exercise you can practise is to repeat once, as you breathe in, the name of God, the Supreme, the Christ, or whomever you adore. This breath does not have to be long or deep. Then hold your breath and repeat the same name four times. And when you breathe out, repeat two times the name or mantra that you have chosen. You inhale for one count, hold your breath for four counts, and exhale for two counts, inwardly repeating the sacred name." "When you say the name of God, immediately God's divine qualities-Purity, Peace, Love, Bliss and many others-enter into you. Then when you hold your breath, these divine qualities rotate inside you, entering into all your impurities, obscurities, imperfections and limitations. And when you breathe out, these same divine qualities carry away all your undivine qualities."
