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Seven Secrets of MeditationPart 1: Sincerity

Sincerity

The first secret ofmeditationis sincerity. Without sincerity all our best intentions will come

to nothing. Sincerity is firstly the resolve to commit to our practice, to meditate a little every

day in spite of all other responsibilities. Sincerity makes us feel that our spiritual quest is a

sacred journey at the very heart of our life. Every day our practice of meditation reminds us

of this reality, and is itself a further step on that journey. When you say to yourself 'I am too

busy to meditate today, or too tired, or too many other commitments', you have already

deceived yourself, you have already become the vicim of this wrong attitude. Even the word

'sincerity' will warn you, guard you against this, and remind you that all of your outer life is

determined by your own consciousness, by your minds clarity, poise, strength, peace - and

that ultimately only your spiritual progress really matters.

Sri Chinmoy meditating

Sincerity will give you strength, patience and resolve and finally you will be successful; you

won't be attached to 'good meditation' or ' bad meditation', you just keep moving forward.

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"Sincerity and spirituality are of paramount importance in our day-to-day life. Sincerity

wants to see the Light. Spirituality shows sincerity what the Light is, where the Light is and

how the Light can be seen... Where there is sincerity and opportunity, progress is bound to

grow. Every day, every second, we can make progress if we have sincere aspiration and, at

the same time, if we have opportunity. If one is extremely sincere, either today or

tomorrow he will reach his Goal."

In this age which some call the Kali Yuga a long age of spiritual darkness any kind of

regular spiritual practice is difficult and unlikely to survive without this simple first

secret. Sri Ramakrishna, the great spiritual Master from India used to say that in this age all

we can do is chant the name ofGod, like a drowning man clinging on to a life raft. He

compared the different types of disciples and seekers in a striking analogy with three dolls

one doll is made of salt, one of cloth, one of stone. If you lower the salt doll into the ocean,

(the ocean of ignorance/the world), it will simply dissolve; the cloth doll will be saturated

with worldliness but yet retain some of it's shape and spirit; the stone doll will remain

untouched and the water will simply run off it. Our hope is that we will all become as stonedolls.

Sri Ramakrishna (1836 - 1886)

Our modern world is so complex and outwardly focused that it consumes us almost entirely very few have the strength of the stone doll or are able to dedicate even a small portion of

each day to meditation or spiritual practice. Sri Chinmoy's recommendations to spiritual

seekers, no matter what path they might follow, offer wonderful insights and remedies to the

problem of developing a strong spiritual life. Having made the long journey toGod

realisationhimself, his teachings like those of all the great masters offer a clear and definitive

map of the journey and identify the key steps in navigating our way safely.
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Sincerity is the first step - you have to decide that yes, this is something you really want to do.

You have to commit to the practice. This translates to a dedicated time in your daily life and a

dedicated space in your home, your room where you have a focal point to

practicemeditation, prayer, cultivating a silent mind. You have topractice every dayand

every day your sincerity will be challenged other commitments will crowd in and test your

resolve.

"Every treasure" says a Chinese proverb "is guarded by dragons that's how you know it is

precious." The treasure of inner progress is guarded by the dragons of physical lethargy,

(getting out of bed early to meditate on a cold winter morning!), doubts in the mind (will I

lose all my friends, will I go a little crazy?), a wavering resolve (is this really worth the

effort?), the cynicism of friends, worldly commitments and an army of inner and outer

distractions. So you need some warrior spirit because as the Bhagavad Gita puts it so

succinctly, 'the soul is not won by the weakling'.

One of the sub-secrets of sincerity though, is that, like a magnet, sincerity attracts an

invisible Grace. As in the painting on the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel where the hands of

man and God are outstretched towards each other, almost touching, the effort of meditation

attracts God's immediate attention. This grace is one of the great secrets of meditation, theCreator's love for the creation, for sincerity and grace coexist together.

One of the all-time great books on meditation is Sri Chinmoy's classic guide book,Meditation:

Man Perfection in God-Satisfaction. If you immerse yourself in this, practice it's

recommendations ten minutes every day, you will become a stone doll. You only have to

believe that one day, exactly when is up to you and your sincerity you will be free of

suffering, attachment, unhappiness, you will be enlightened!

Begin with sincerity and make a start! Don't wait until tomorrow. You will see for yourself

how everything will all work out. If you do this one simple thing, make this one right

decision, everything else will fall into place and all obstacles will fall away. You have begunwalking along the right road and the unseen grace of the universe will take care of you.

Next:Seven Secrets of Meditation - Part 2: Effective Technique - the 'Heart Centre'
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Part 2: Effective Technique TheSpiritual Heart

Effective Technique The Spiritual Heart

If thefirst secretoflearning meditationcorrectly is the seekers sincerity an indispensable

commitment to regular practise and to creating a special place and time for this purpose,

without which no effort to learn meditation is likely to survive then the second secret is

concerned with the most effective technique.

While most forms ofmeditation deal with the human mind, Sri Chinmoy's teachingsplace

great emphasis on the importance of the heart. Secret number two learn to meditate in

thespiritual heart. This technique bypasses the mind altogether and shifts the focus of our

meditation efforts into the centre of the chest. This is calledAnahata, the heart chakra, and

this centre houses many of our most powerful spiritual qualities and meditation capacities.

This from Sri Chinmoy'sMeditation: Man Perfection in God-Satisfaction:

There is a specific place where the soul resides most of the time and that is in the heart. If you

want illumination you have to get if from the soul, which is inside the heart... Suppose you have

the opportunity to work at two places. At one place (mind) you will earn two hundred dollars

and at the other place (heart) five hundred dollars. If you are wise, you will not waste your time

at the first place.

While the mind by it's very nature is restless, untranquil and usually uncooperative during

attempts to bring stillness into our being (like the waves on the surface of the ocean) the
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heart is inherently peaceful and calm the bottom of the ocean. The heart is an egoless,

unhorizonedconsciousness Sri Chinmoy's description of just how vast it is, is absolutely

startling, for the heart embodies the entire universe. His bookSamadhi and Siddhigives a

tantalising and fascinating glimpse into these realms of consciousness that will unfold at

some point in our development within us extraordinary worlds lie waiting to be discovered!

Sri Chinmoy's vast literary legacyis filled with writings and reflections about the spiritual

heart and it's capacity to solve all of the world's problems for one of it's major qualities is

oneness. If you can live 'in the heart' you are a part of all life and all life is a part of you

there is no separation between self and other. Out of this, oneness, concern, compassion, love

and sympathy flower - the sufferings of others are your sufferings, their joys and triumphs

are your own.

In Kundalini: The Mother Power, Sri Chinmoy writes: "The power of the heart centre is

unbelievable. A seeker with mastery over the anahata centre has free access to both the

visible and the invisible worlds. Time surrenders to him; space surrenders to him. In the

anahata centre, one can enjoy the deepest bliss of oneness; one can have pure joy... The

spiritual heart is larger than the largest. We always say that there cannot be anything

superior to the Universal Consciousness, but this is a mistake. The spiritual heart houses

the Universal Consciousness."

The ancient Greeks described four types of love and these include eros (physical

love), agape (self-sacrificing love), caritas (charitable love) and divinitas. This last is the

soul's love ofGod, and from our heart meditation practise, this wonderful gift with it's
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intuitive wisdom; it's expanding, unconditional and pure love; it's sweetness-delight; it's

devotion to God will blossom. God love, eternal in the soul, flowering into a conscious feeling

through the heart, becomes a personal experience.

"We have to start our journey in the heart. Inside the heart is the soul. The consciousness of the

soul permeates the entire body, but the special dwelling place of the soul is inside the spiritual

heart. If pure love, heart's love, soul's love, can permeate your entire being, it can purify and

divinise your whole existence... All the centres have love, but the heart centre has more than any

other centre. Love is the special province of the heart centre; other centres are for other spiritual

and occult powers."

Speaking of divine love, the highest flowering of pure love,Sri Chinmoycomments:

"You can keep your heart's door wide open all the time if you can value the presence of God. You

have to feel that without the conscious presence of God you cannot exist, not even for a fleetingmoment... Cry for your Beloved Supreme the way a child cries for a doll, then you are bound to

open your heart's door."

Sri Chinmoy's principle meditation guidebook, Meditation: Man Perfection in God-

Satisfaction, contains innumerable guided heart meditations and commentaries on the

significance of the heart centre and fast-tracking our progress. It describes the aspects of our

humanity - body/vital/mind/heart/soul - as resembling sisters or brothers in a family. Each

has it's role, with ascending levels of illumination and wisdom, the soul being pre-eminent.

The soul and the spiritual heart must guide our self-discovery and the evolution of our planet

- they hold the keys to both personal and world transformation.
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"World peace, world harmony, world perfection will take place only when all the parts of the

being accept the soul's light that flows through the heart... But mind-power and heart-power

also need one another. Manifestation has to take place through mind-power. If the mind does

not accept the light of the heart, the heart itself cannot reach fulfilment and will not be able to

manifest the Consciousness of the Supreme on earth."

Sri Chinmoydescribes his own path as 'the path of the heart' - a path of divine love, devotion

and surrender to God.

"Human love means to bind and be bound. But divine love means to love God in the way God

wants to be loved. When we love God, devote ourselves to God and surrender to Him

unconditionally, our finite self grows into the Infinite in exactly the same way that a drop enters

the ocean and becomes the ocean itself. When we become one with the infinite, and claim it as

our very own, then we can truthfully say that we ourselves are infinite."

Related Links:

Meditation Course - Learn to Meditate Online

Part 3: AspirationAspiration

"Aspiration is the endless road that leads eternally towards the ever-transcending

Beyond." Sri Chinmoy.
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Sri Chinmoy meditating...

If sincerity is the impulse and commitment to practising meditation, and the spiritual heart

is the place where our practice will be most fruitful, then the third secret key is embodied in a

single word aspiration.Aspirationis one of the principle dynamics of the heart and one of

the great secrets of the spiritual life it is an inner cry, a longing forGod, a hunger to be free

of everything in our nature that prevents our happiness, our self-discovery, our freedom.

Aspiration is a current of longing that carries us forward, an evolutionary impulse towards

perfection and self-blossoming - Sri Chinmoy's vast anthology of teachings andwritingsis

filled with this recurring theme.

In our normal human life we seek happiness generally in outer ways in relationships with

people, in careers, in possessions, through immersion in all of the pleasures and

enchantments of the world. This outer search occupies many lifetimes. When it becomesevident that all of this is not enough to finally satisfy, we begin to look for happiness within,

in the still repose ofmeditation, in self-sufficiency, in a desireless inner world of pure being.

A new breeze is flowing in our lives, the current of aspiration.

Where desire looks to the world around us for satisfaction, aspiration looks within, seeking

the delight and peace of the soul.Sri Chinmoydescribes this inner awakening as a hunger for

God's Love, Light and Bliss, the very life-breath of the Supreme within us. Aspiration itself is
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happiness, or in Sri Chinmoy's words: "There is no difference between inner happiness and

aspiration. They are one. Aspiration is the flame and happiness is the light of the flame."

If our soul is only satisfied with its conscious discovery of our oneness with God, then this

penultimate achievement is won primarily through aspiration and all our human defects and

ignorance will be burnt up in the fire of this one ascending urge to know God. With beautifulloftiness, Sri Chinmoy declares: "The sun of aspiration will rise to fully illumine every

aspect of your existence only when you constantly feel that the sun of aspiration is the only

reality-existence in your life and in God's entire creation."

Aspiration means continuous progress and continuous transcendence to go beyond,

beyond, beyond. In our meditation this is the effort to become more still than ever before; to

go deeper/higher in our consciousness; on the path ofbhakti yoga to cry out to God with an

ever-deepening, ever-climbing intensity. "Do not be satisfied with success,"Sri

Chinmoywrites. "Aspire only for progress. Joy is in progress, not in success. Success ends

our journey, but progress has no end if your goal is going higher all the time, then you

will constantly make progress and you will get the greatest satisfaction. Every day when

you meditate, feel that you will go still deeper, fly still higher."

"Aspire only for progress. Joy is in progress..."- Sri Chinmoy

Habit, time, apathy, the humdrum sameness of days and years; a resignation at our failure tofind happiness; a surrendered and secret inner pact with the ordinary these sap our hope

and inspiration and we grow older, fossilize, resigned to be less than we really are. Aspiration

is the antidote, shows us the way forward, dreams inside us of what we can become, what

we willbecome it is the life-breath of spirit, the sap of the hope-tree.

How to keep and increase aspiration? Increasing the percentage of our daily life that includes

spiritually positive activities is an obvious first answer immersing ourselves more in
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inspirational books, spiritual music, a lengthening and deepening of our meditation practice.

A daily goal chart helps list the days of the week and for each set targets: physical

aspiration through aerobics, running, exercise; a half-hour of daily reading to inspire the

mind; singing so many songs; meditation at set and regular times; and group meditations to

benefit from the aspiration of others.

When our aspiration starts to slip, we have to cry like a child. "When a child's favourite

object is taken away by somebody forcefully, the child cries. On hearing his cry, his father

comes and brings him back his favourite object. If you also cry in the same way when your

aspiration is taken away by the hostile forces, then the Supreme, the Eternal Father, will

bring you back your aspiration."

During meditation, Sri Chinmoy advises also that we imagine and feel an abundance of life

energy is entering into us. "While you are meditating you have to feel that each breath that

you are breathing in is at least ten times larger than usual. This breath creates an

abundant supply of energy... which is nothing but aspiration, an immediate increase of

aspiration."

Gratitude, according to Sri Chinmoy, also quickly increases our aspiration - we are

meditating because God's Grace is at work in our lives, evident in this kindling of our hunger

to become illumined. "Aspiration is undoubtedly an unconditional gift from the Supreme...you can increase your aspiration by feeling constantly your gratitude heart for the

mounting aspiration that God's infinite Grace has already given to you."And in another

lovely insight; "Impelled by His strongest compassion, God takes the feeblest man into His

omnipotence."

Like sunlight to the plant these practices nourish our innate spirituality the inner cry of

aspiration can finally become constant and powerful. Writes Sri Chinmoy: "When you feel
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that the tiny flame of aspiration has died inside you, it means one of two things: either you

have been buffeted by a desire-blow or consciously or unconsciously you have slept in one

of your familiar rooms: self-indulgence or ignorance."

"It is by constant, sincere effort that you can maintain a strong and growing aspiration.

Feel that the day you do not aspire, inside you somebody literally dies. What dies is themost beautiful child which you call the soul. If you don't pray and meditate, then the soul is

not getting nourishment. On yesterday's food you cannot exist; on yesterday's meditation

you cannot exist. So, if you love the soul, everyday you shall pray and meditate. Your love

for the soul itself is your aspiration..."

Another interesting aspect of aspiration is it's increase through self-giving, which contains

'the supreme secret of oneness with God's Will'. When we dedicate a portion of our time to

the service of others, we widen our heart, please our soul, multiply our good qualities, foster

egolessness, feel our oneness with others in God's creation all of which intensifies our

aspiration.

To cultivate aspiration, our effort, sincerity and heart are all required we have to prepare

ourselves. By such effort we attract the fourth secret God's grace. God is dying to give us

everything, but we must cultivate our hunger, our wanting to enjoy His gifts.

"God has prepared my meal. I have to prepare my hunger. God is ready with my Victory. I

have to prepare myself to accept my victory."- Sri Chinmoy.

Related Links:

Aspiration andDesire And Aspiration- two talks by Sri Chinmoy.

The Inner Cry- an excerpt from The Wings of Joyby Sri Chinmoy.

Part 4: Grace

Grace
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So far we have looked at three of the foundation stones of successful meditation practice

sincerity,effective techniqueand aspiration. In meditation, sincerity consecrates a part of

our life to regular practice; our focus in the heart centre with its powerfully concentrated

spiritual qualities ensures maximum progress; and the heart's awakening inner cry ignites

our aspiration from tiny ember to mounting flame. This quickening in our inner journeying is

an exciting time of palpable results how different we are beginning to feel!

But personal effort is only one reason for this blossoming of spirit the second is the

transformative power of grace, a recurring theme in the written and oral teachings of the

greatmasters and spiritual teachers. Grace is the love and compassion ofGod responding to

personal effort and falling unconditionally like rain on agnostic and believer alike. Personal

effort, magnet-like, always attracts grace and grace increases our hunger, deepens our

meditation, clears away the blocks and obstacles and expedites our progress. Grace is thefourth secret ofmeditation, the key to the great alchemy that transforms ignorance into

knowledge, disbelief into devotion, seeker into saint.

"God is on the third floor and I am on the first floor. There should be a rendezvous, a meeting

place. I have to go to God; I have to go to the second floor with my personal effort, that is to say,

with my tears, my soulful cry. And then God will come down from the third floor to the second

floor with His infinite Grace, Compassion, and there we meet together. He has to give what He

has, His Compassion, the flood of Compassion, and I have to give my little personal effort and

my tears, the flood of my tears. Then we come together, there we meet together."For most of us beginning meditation, personal effort is required because the concept of grace

with its assumption of the existence of God is simply not a reality. Either we do not believe in

God or, overly conscious of our blemishes and wrong doings, we cannot believe that a God

could love us constantly and unconditionally. Sri Chinmoy tells us that the opposite is true,

that even our little personal effort is itself entirely due to God's loving grace. God is calling us

our meditation is our response.
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"Personal effort cannot live by itself even for a minute, because its inner nourishment is the

Grace from Above. The grace is inside your personal effort. If grace is not there, personal effort

will be very, very limited after some time you will give up. God's Grace is responsible for

everything... this moment it is using our hands, next minute it is using our legs, next moment it

is using our mind, next moment our breath or our heart."

Grace especially permeates our being when we are in the field of aspiration, even to the point

of nullifying or changing our karma. The law of karma refers to a cosmic law in which action

and reactions, causes and effects are part of a chain of experiences given to us by a higher

Power.Sri Chinmoyuses the analogy of a child who does something wrong then runs to the

father to avoid the consequences. The father has compassion for the child. He knows the

child has done something wrong but safeguards the child from the consequences.
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"If we have complete faith in God and we surrender to Him and we immediately run to Him

with our wrong doing, our error or our defects, He will bless us and protect us from the karma

which would have normally come back to us."

Belief or disbelief in grace does not alter it's reality any more than our expectation of a sunny

day might stop a sudden downpour and an open mind/open heart will gradually reveal it'sexistence. As we become more conscious of grace in our life, a direct personal experience, our

faith and surrender and our feeling of being God's child deepen. Anxiety disappears, love and

patience come, everything is being taken care of by God the infinitely loving parent. This is

not a dogma or a philosophy or an idea but Reality you know it, live it, you can feel it.

Comments Sri Chinmoy:"God's greatest adamantine Power is His Grace. The moment

God uses His Grace for an individual, He offers His very Life-Breath to the seeker. Grace

does everything. Grace is like sunshine. If you keep your windows open, then only can the

sunlight enter. But if you keep your hearts door closed, then how can sunlight enter? If we

approach God with the heart and the soul, there can be no dryness, only a constant shower

of love and Grace. We feel our love flowing to God and God's Grace constantly being

showered on us."

Sri Chinmoymentions two important qualities that we need to better utilise the force of grace

in our lives - the first is purity in the heart, mind and vital; the second is gratitude. "It is

through gratitude, constant gratitude to the Supreme in us, that we expand our

consciousness and come to know our higher vision and reality."With the Supreme's Grace

always in our lives, everything becomes simple and clear and we know what our life's tasks

and purposes are. At this time we are eager to show our love by serving God in the

world. "God does not want an inactive body, a dead soul. He wants someone who is active,

dynamic and aspiring; someone who wants to be energised so that he can do something forGod; someone who wants to realise God and manifest all the divine qualities here on

earth."

But our inner wealth always starts with God's grace and compassion. This infinite wealth

achieves "first, a free access to His inner Existence, then a most complete intimacy or

oneness with His inner Will and finally, ecstasy or delight, which is the universal and

transcendental Reality which God Himself is."

(All quotations in this article are bySri Chinmoy.)

Part 5: Meditation LifestyleMeditation Lifestyle
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Sri Chinmoy Meditating

The development and deepening of our meditationdoes not depend only on the topics

already discussed sincerity,technique,aspiration, thegracewhich these attract but also

on the way in which other aspects of our lives impact on all these, help or hinder ourdevelopment. Our meditation cannot exist in isolation from everything else that we do it is

supported, or conversely annulled by these things. This is the principle of holistics, the co-

dependence of physical wellbeing, lifestyle habits, diet and exercise, the desires, thoughts and

preoccupations that fill our mind the mix of all these will have a considerable bearing on

how quickly we can progress.

The Body-Temple

Consider first the physical body. If we are unwell, unfit, then simply sitting still in a chair to

meditate will be difficult discomfort, tiredness, restlessness will be serious obstacles and

these negatives will flow into the mind as distraction, reluctance, impatience. The body canbe a temple, filled with life force, health, wellbeing, prana or a dungeon!

"The body is like a temple and the soul or inner reality is like the shrine inside the body-

temple. If the temple does not have a shrine, then we cannot appreciate the temple. Again, if

we do not keep the temple in good condition, then how can we take proper care of the

shrine?"
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Many spiritual paths,Sri Chinmoys path especially, encourage physical excellence as a

necessary foundation and starting point for any attempts to meditate, to achieve stillness in

the mind and body.Hatha Yoga also has this purpose, a rung in the ladder of self-

development that cultivates suppleness, discipline, health - and throughpranayama (yogic

breathing techniques) focus and clarity in the mind. Any regular physical exercise greatly

enhances our ability to meditate, removes blocked and trapped energies from mind and body

and makes sitting in a composed and undistracted state quite effortless.

"If you value the shrine and everything else that is inside the temple, you will make sure

that the temple is kept in good repair. Similarly, inside the body is the heart and soul. The

shrine is within. We have to make the body a fit instrument to house the shrine; we have to

keep the grounds of the temple in good condition if we care for what is inside the temple."

"We have the body and we have the soul. A spiritual person has to give equal importance to

both If someone does not get any exercise at all, then the physical will remain unlit,

lethargic and a real hindrance to the aspirant. If the physical consciousness does not

aspire, it will remain separated from the soul. Then rest assured, you will never be able to

achieve perfection. The physical has to aspire in its own way to increase its capacity so that

it can hold light. Then the physical will contribute to the spiritual and you will be able to

aspire and manifest much more. So physical fitness and spirituality must go together."

Understanding this mutuality of mind and body is important, and good reason for

thoselearning meditationto develop a fit and healthy body-temple.

Running

Running (or jogging) is outstanding among the various fitness regimes in that it cultivates

not only cardiovascular fitness and a calm mind but develops many inner qualities

aspiration/intensity/will-power/dynamism that powerfully complement and promote the

inner progress made in meditation. Sri Chinmoys writingsand insights about
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therelationship between running and spiritual blossoming are profoundly inspiring and

likely to persuade even the most reluctant sceptic to head off to the nearest running shoe

store.

"When it is a matter of running, all the members of the family - the body, vital, mind and

heart - have to work together. It is like a family party. The head of the family has invited allof the family members to come and eat. Through running, the soul wants to offer a feast to

all it's children. What running is doing is keeping the body, vital, mind and heart fit, so that

the soul can get complete happiness. The soul is happy when it sees that all it's children

have come to enjoy the feast."

"The body's capacity and the soul's capacity, the body's speed and the soul's speed go

together. The outer running reminds us of something higher and deeper - the soul - which is

running along Eternity's Road. Running and physical fitness help us both in our inner life

of aspiration and in our outer life of activity."

For a more comprehensive discussion of this, go to Body-Mind-Spirit.

The Power to Change

For those undertaking a deeper commitment to meditation, gradually clearing away the

unhelpful habits of our lifestyle will prove greatly rewarding. Smoking, drugs, alcohol for
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example all diminish our capacity to meditate, tilt the temple/dungeon balance

unfavourably, subtract from all that we might become. It is helpful, irrespective of our age to

feel young enough, open enough and free enough to still change, to believe that we have the

power to choose what we will become but to fossilize, to become addicted or attached to

our bad habits to the extent that we are caught by them and have lost this power to change

would be unfortunate.

"We can think of ourselves as two halves: imperfection is one half, and our sincere cry for

perfection is the other half. One side is weakness, and the other side is strength. With our

inner cry for perfection, let us run towards our destination and reach the illumination-

shore."

The Role of a Vegetarian Diet

Many paths, my own included, recommend avegetarian diet, since even the food that we eat

has some measurable effect on the depth and subtlety of our meditation, the purity and

stillness of the mind. Everything carriesconsciousness the mild properties of vegetarianfood induce a corresponding mildness in our own consciousness since what we eat at least

in the mind/body realm in some measure shapes what we are.

"The vegetarian diet plays a most important role in the spiritual life. Purity is of

paramount importance for an aspirant. This purity we must establish in the physical, the

vital and the mental. When we eat meat and fish, the animal consciousness enters into us -

our nerves become more agitated and restless, and this can interfere with our meditation.

But the mild qualities of fruits and vegetables, on the other hand, help us to establish in our

inner life as well as in our outer life, the qualities of sweetness, softness, simplicity and

purity. So, if we are vegetarians, it helps our inner being to strengthen its own existence.

Inwardly, we are praying and meditating; outwardly, the food we are taking from Mother

Earth is helping us too, giving us not only energy but also aspiration."

"If one has aspiration, the vegetarian diet will help considerably: the body's purity will help

one's inner aspiration to become more intense and more soulful. But again, if one is not a

vegetarian, that does not mean that one will not make spiritual progress or will not be able

to realise God."

This topic is elaborated upon in more detail in Conscious Living, a short feature

encapsulating Sri Chinmoy's own insights.

The above recommendations are not intended to sound disapproving or veering toward some

moral high ground they simply invite any serious practitioner of meditation to explore

adjustments in their lifestyle that can be beneficial. The choice is always ours and the true

value of these suggestions is best discovered and tested in personal experience and our

willingness to simply try. You be the judge.
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Sri Chinmoy playing meditative flute music

Spiritual Books and Meditation Music

Just as the flow-on benefits of fitness, running and diet greatly enhance our ability to

meditate and expedite the great journey of awakening, so too other positives can be explored.

Some are simple and obvious more spiritual music; immersing ourselves each day in

reading about spirituality, about the lives and teachings of the masters, the inspirational

accounts of others who have ventured along this self-discovering road before us. As the plant

grows in the sunlight, the seekers inner life is likewise nourished by the sunlight

ofspirituality peaceful music, the literature of the realised masters, the still and silent

haven of meditation itself. Simply increasing the daily percentage of our life devoted to these

activities will greatly benefit us.

One way to effectively usher in some of these changes is to set weekly goals. Make up aDaily

Goal Setting Chart, listing each day down the left column then across the top write down your

specific targets exercise, meditation (the morning one is most important but an additional

evening meditation is very worthwhile), twenty minutes daily reading, no smoking/drinking

(!), vegetarian diet you choose! You will discover for yourself how very differently a week in

which you meet these goals will feel to a normal week in which these resolutions do not

feature. This very positive difference will encourage and inspire you about your own

possibilities and make the notion of progress a palpable reality.
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The deeper our meditation becomes, the more we can feel the guidance of our own real Self,

the 'inner pilot' asSri Chinmoydescribes the soul. This inner wisdomtells us how to live in

the outer world, what to do and not to do, what decisions are best all the details of life are

guided from within. Thus a lifestyle enabling this access to the soul through meditation is of

incalculable value for it grants us great happiness the souls delight flows into everything

that we are and do.

"Spirituality is a one-way road that leads you to your goal. Once you have embarked on

your journey, you can't go back. The starting point is gone. Once evolution starts on any

plane, you can't go back to the initial point. If you are consciously running toward the goal,

then naturally you want to get there sooner than the soonest. If you want to run fast,

faster, fastest, then you have to simplify your outer life, your life of confusion, your life of

desire, your life of anxiety and worry. At the same time, you have to intensify your inner

life, your life of aspiration, your life of dedication and illumination At first you will see

that the goal is right in front of you. Then you will feel that the goal is within you, and

finally you will come to realise that not only is the goal within you, but you are the goalitself. Your own higher self is the goal that your lower self has been searching for."


Part 6: Finding Your Path

Finding Your Path
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The secrets of meditation are all linked and sequential each prepares us for the discovery of

the next and each contains within itself, like Chinese boxes, the essence of the others. Each

path will have it's own secret keys, but in meditation some are universal. Let us briefly review

the secrets so far considered.

At the beginning,sincerityis the resolve to practicemeditationevery day and to resist the

innumerable challenges from life that so easily, and so usually, persuade us to lapse. Too

tired, too busy, too uninspired we each have our little dragons to confront. But sincerity is a

powerful word and a powerful attitude that gives us patience, determination, a warrior's

resolve and akin to a far-off whisper from our soul a reminder of another reality in our

lives beyond the everyday things. We have entered the stream of enlightenment, we are

awakening.

If you develop sincerity, you will be unconcerned with today's 'good meditation' or

yesterday's 'bad meditation' you will meditate to make progress, not just to have

experiences, and the regularity of practice will carry you forward, nourish your strength,

prepare you to advance ever forward on the journey.

Meditating in the spiritual heart is the next key and a powerful technique in both bypassing

the restless mind and immersing ourselves in the peaceful, vast consciousnessof this

powerful meditation centre. Here in the heartthe soul sleeps, now begins to stir. And from

within the heart - secret number three aspirationgrows, the impulse of the soul towards

self-unfoldment, towards its penultimate purpose. Heart and soul tell us "Arise, awake,

you are the sons and daughters of God and nothing less than the full blossoming

of your divinity will satisfy you."
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Sri Chinmoy sprint training in New York

Next secret a gift endlessly regiven is the great secret of grace. Our aspiration-cry even

if faltering and faint-hearted draws to us the love ofGod, the loving Mother or Father.

Sincere effort always attracts grace, and grace renders all effort fruitful. Grace is the

compassion of God that responds to ouraspirationand takes care of us, an unseen Hand

guiding us onward. Trusting in this grace (a long apprenticeship sometimes!) and forsaking

our self-determination in favour of God-reliance is the beginnings ofspiritual surrender, the

'let Thy will be done' maxim ofChristand so many of the great Masters.

Now too, our slowly blossoming meditation practice is making us more conscious of our

outer life the manner in which its details and activities help or hinder our spiritual

development. And we can respond to this understanding by introducing new positives,

dropping the obvious negatives; looking at support practices like physical fitness , an exercise

regime; less TV/parties; diet modifications; inspiring the mind and deepening our knowledge

(jnana yoga) with daily reading on spiritual topics; and goal setting to deepen our

commitment to practice. This willingness to change, a makeover oflifestyle, is the fifth

secretof our transformation.

Animated by the grace of God, inspired by the glimpses won in meditation, all of our life is

swinging around, magnet-like, towards the pole of liberation, realigning itself to achieve a

new unanimity of purpose.
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Secret Six: Finding Our Path

The next secret is also a consequence of effort and grace finding our spiritual path. In the

maze of life, many paths lie before us which to take? Each spiritual path is one of many

possible routes to the summit of the mountain liberation and our own nature will

determine which way we choose to go. Each path has its own particular practices and

recommendations for those choosing to travel that way, and we are truly ready for a spiritual

path when we have an inner hunger. Sri Chinmoycomments:

"When you have an inner cry, that inner need for something, then you are ready for a

spiritual path If you have a hunger to learn more, or to learn something which you do notknow, you go to school. Your hunger compels you to go to a teacher and study; your

hunger prepares your readiness. In the spiritual life also, when you are hungry for Peace,

Light and Bliss, that means you are already prepared for the spiritual life."

When contemplating a path we often feel that we must review all of the options before

reaching a well-informed decision as to what is best. But it doesnt work like this. The path

best suited to us will often involve subtleties and inner connections not apparent to our

rational mind perhaps an inner link with a Guru or teacher, or an inner trait that will

predispose us along a particular pathway, for example. Often our mind is the last part of our

being to recognise our path but in a certain sense it is the path which finds us or is given to

us. The way best suited for us emerges instead out of our ownspiritual practiceand our

meditation, an inner wisdom that comes into our awareness as a feeling in the heart, not

rational choice in the mind.

"The easiest, fastest and most convincing road is the psychic road, the road of the heart...

inside the heart is the soul. The soul is the divine messenger, the divine representative of

God. If you really knock at the heart's door, everything is achieved because when the
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heart's door is opened you will find the soul within. Everything that you want from God, in

God and for God must come directly from there."

Someone will take the path of devotion to God bhakti yoga another will incline to action

and service kharma yoga another to knowledge and wisdom jnana yoga yoga

meaning union with God, higher Self, the mountain summit.

"If people are really hungry and they find the fruit that will satisfy their hunger in the first

shop, then they just eat it there and don't bother going from store to store. Of course, if they

dont like the food offered there, they have every right to go to some other place."

"But if you feel that this is your path, then don't allow the mind to come forward and bring

in doubts. You may think that the mind is being sincerely cautious in questioning the heart,but the mind is only showing its insecurity. The mind is helplessly insecure, and that is why

it always creates confusion. Have faith only in your heart and soul. If the soul conveys the

message to you through your heart that this is your path, accept this path and stick to it."

"No matter what path you follow, it will lead you to one destination. You may call it Christ-

Consciousness, another will call it Krishna-Consciousness or Buddha-Consciousness. But

there can be no conflict, since truth is one. Any path you follow will help you realise the

truth."

Spiritual paths are never at variance with religion, and will never find fault with other paths

or other religions.Sri Chinmoyexpresses this very succinctly:

"Spirituality is not merely tolerance. It is not even acceptance. It is the feeling of universal

oneness... Spirituality is not mere hospitality to others' faith in God. It is the absolute

recognition and acceptance of their faith in God as one's own."

He compares religion to a house in which we live, spiritualityto a school where we meet

together and study.
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"Your house is good for you; my house is good for me. Your religion will certainly help you

to reach the Highest and my religion will help me to reach the Highest. All the religions are

one. God is the tree and the religions are the branches of the tree."

The further we advance along our own path, the more we understand the universality of all

paths:

"Yoga transcends all religions. Here we dont want to be satisfied only with my house or

your house. We want to claim all the houses of the world as our very own because God isinside all of them. In Yoga, all religions become ours because Yoga means union with God.

When we have this union, we transcend our limited feeling of 'my' and 'mine', my religion,

your religion. At that time we go beyond the boundaries of religion."

"God is our aim, our goal. If we enter into Him, we enter into the infinite Consciousness. If

we pray and we meditate, we accept all religions as very own and place them in the very

Heart of God."

It is interesting that we very often do not think of ourselves as seekers, even though we are.

We neither feel special, nor are we consciously looking for a teacher or a path but in

another reality of our being we are ready, our life has been preparing us, and only our mindhas not yet recognised this truth. But here grace plays its part the path is there right before

us and has found us itself.

Sometimes people think "I am not worthy, I am too impure, I have too many bad habits to

follow a spiritual path, to be a student of a Master." This is not so. What distinguishes a

student on a path is not their lack of problems and blemishes but a desire to transform the

many they may have; not their spiritual maturity and their perfection but their wish to one-


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day achieve this. If we wait until we are 'ready' or 'pure' we will postpone our journey

forever.'Now' and 'today' is the best mantra!

Sri Chinmoy: Meditation-Delight

A path refines our practice down into clearer guidelines and specifics thespiritual master

or guruwho established this path will have his or her own recommendations. A teacher at

this level is like a loving parent who wants his child to blossom and fulfill its highest potential

not sleep all day in bed, waste time in bad habits, indulge it's wish for unbridled freedom.

For real freedom is not self-indulgence but freedom from ignorance, from suffering it is the

liberating freedom of God-oneness. The guidelines of each path are the recommendations of

the teacher, the steps which, if taken will lead to the great freedom of enlightenment.

"Choose whomever you want to have as your spiritual master. God will eventually bring

the right one for you... The ignorance-sea has to be crossed and without a boat nobody can

cross it. Even if there is a boat, without a boatman, who will row? Who will sail the boat?"

A path means a new velocity, a new purposefulness, a clear direction forward where before

we were hesitant and uncertain, now we are confident and growing in our inner commitment

to the journey.

"We shall all reach the goal. But it depends entirely on our aspiration. Those who have

inner wisdom never waste a single second. They feel that time is most precious, time is

golden. This same time will not come again. A seekers life is meaningful and fruitful only if

he can use each moment for a divine purpose. The seeker who believes in God but who has
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no time for God, who believes in meditation but does not meditate, his life is not much

better than the atheist."

All the paths cannot be the same, Sri Chinmoy writes, only the ultimate goal will be the same.

There are different roads but each road leads to the same goal. And no sincere effort ends in

vain.

"If someone makes a sincere effort, then I wish to say that his inner life and outer life are

bound to be crowned with success."


Related Links:

Our Path - on Sri Chinmoy's Homepage

Part 7: The Role of the Teacher

The Role of the Teacher

For meditators wanting to make very fast progress in their spiritual life, the last of the seven

secrets of meditation is also the most important. This last step is usually taken when the

others have been observed and developed especially oursincerityand regularity of practice,the awakening of our aspiration, the resultinggracethat effort always brings and this secret

also heralds the beginning of another wonderful chapter, a new velocity and clearer direction

in our journey of self-discovery. The seventh secret is the discovery of our spiritual teacher

and the transformative role he or she will play.
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... Sri Chinmoy ...

An illumined master or guru is someone who has attainedGod-realisation and offers this

wisdom to others.Guruis a Sanskrit word meaning 'he who illumines', and a real guru is a

bridge, a connecting link between man andGod, earth and Heaven, our present reality andthe full flowering of our future possibilities.

The guru is like an elevator operator God is on the third floor and we are on the first floor

and he can take us up to the third floor to meet God. "I am a broom" said Sri Ramakrishna in

another analogy, likening the role of the master to sweeping away the debris that conceals

our true nature.

What is therole of the guru? Their task is to make us consciously aware of something vast

and infinite and ever-free within ourselves, to reconnect us with our truest and highest

Selves, which is nothing other than God Himself.

A realspiritual Mastertries to bring to the fore the inner divinity of the disciple from deep

within the disciple's heart. He knocks at the disciples heart-door and awakens the divine child in

him, which we call thesoul.

We spend the first two decades of our lives learning from others parents, teachers, college

instructors since these know more than we about each of the many life-skills we must

learn. Once our proficiency is established, we move on. In thespiritual lifetoo, we need the
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guidance of those who have journeyed much further along the realisation road than we have

without them our progress is uncertain and slow.

For millennia we have been swimming in the sea of ignorance. When we become awakened, we

want to swim across that sea into the ocean of Light and Delight. If we know that there is a

boatman, and that there is a boat which can safely carry us to our goal, then naturally we will

try to get help from him. A genuine spiritual Master knows the way and is bound to help us

reach the goal. Like a boatman, he will carry us to the other shore.

While a school teacher gives each pupil the same lesson, a spiritual master is more like a

private tutor he sees the student's individual capacity and propensities and will foster

these. Each soul has it's own unique way of meditating, it's special qualities and a way

forward that will enable very fast progress this self-knowledge is usually unknown to us but

very clear to a true master. Working with this insight he can help us to navigate our way

forward quickly, clear away the inner blocks and obstacles and through many inner

experiences show us what we have within, what we shall one day become.

When a master accepts a student or disciple, an inner bond is forged. The master promises

God to take care of the disciple, not only in this lifetime but throughout the long journey to

God-realisation, and also brings the soul to the fore, injecting light and aspiration into the

awakening inner life. This inner process is called initiation and can occur in a number of

different ways through meditation; occultly or psychically; through an outer blessing or

mantra.

When the Master initiates someone, he gives that person a portion of his life-breath. At the time

of the initiation, the Guru makes a solemn promise to the individual seeker and to the Supreme

that he will do his best to help the seeker in his spiritual life, that he will offer his heart and soul

to take the disciple into the highest region of the Beyond At the time of initiation, the Master

actually takes on the disciples teeming imperfections, both from the present incarnation and

from past incarnations This flowering of the initiation is really more than initiation. It is the

revelation of the disciples own inner divinity. At that moment, they feel that they and their

Guru have totally become one.

The path of a true master will be defined by a number of spiritual disciplines andlifestyle

observances. Why are these necessary? Spiritual masters are like parents who deeply love

their children they want their children to realise their fullest potential, not lie in bed all

day, develop bad habits and never blossom. The disciplines of a particular path create the

optimum conditions in which the disciples can fully grow just as the plant thrives in the

sunlight, our spiritual life also blossoms in the right conditions. The requisites and

recommendations of the master are not confining but liberating here are the steps we must

take, the negatives we must erase and the practices that will bring about our enlightenment.
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If we cling to our limited notion of freedom usually this is simply self-indulgence and

undervalue the true freedom of self-realisation (freedom from attachment, suffering,

everything in our unillumined nature that limits us and prevents our full self-discovery) a

spiritual path will be very difficult to follow. But when we know that we are not illumined or

truly free, that all our life choices have failed to make us truly happy, and from this

understanding comes an openness and willingness to take help from a path and a teacher,

then we are ready. If we have become fossilized, unwilling to change or embrace a new way,

then no teacher can help us.

... Sri Chinmoy ...

In the West we are frightened of commitment and the imagined loss of our personal choices

but in accepting a spiritual path we should see this instead as an invitation to explore a new

way forward, a new opportunity. Commitment grows slowly over time, even over years, as

our understanding grows and our inner bond with the guru strengthens.

The Guru and the disciple must test each other sweetly, seriously and perfectly before their

mutual acceptance. Otherwise, if they are wrong in their selection, the Guru will have to dance

with failure and the disciple with perdition.

How to know which teacher is meant for us? We imagine that we must assess all the possible

masters, make a rational choice based on all the available information. But in reality it is the

path and the master that find us as we become ready there may be an existing bond

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or inner factors about which our mind will almost certainly be unaware. It is the inner

realities and affinities that determine our spiritual life at this level, not the limited

comprehension of the mind. Here, hearts feeling and intuition are more important than

mental consideration. Our spiritual life is like a stream flowing down a mountainside left

alone it will find its way, but if blocked and checked by the impositions of the mind it will get

diverted and slowed. Out of our sincerity, regular practice and growing aspiration our teacher

will eventually come to find us.

There is no seeker on earth who will remain without a teacher if he is desperately in need of one.

If his aspiration is intense, if his inner cry is constantly mounting, how can God remain asleep?

It is God who has kindled the flame of aspiration in that particular seeker, and it is God who

will bring a spiritual master to him or place him at the feet of a spiritual master.

You will know your guru when you meet him by the immediate joy you will feel there are

other genuine masters, but this guru gives you an immediate feeling of spontaneous joy.

While the goal is one and the same, the paths leading to the goal are many but it is amistake to have more than one teacher, one path at the same time and will cause confusion.

Each teacher has his or her own prescription and their one path is enough to take you to the

top of the mountain.

In the West, having a spiritual master can sometimes attract cynicism or criticism. Do not be

disturbed by this. Many challenges lie waiting to test our resolve, but our strength will slowly

grow and the approval of others will cease to be important. Most spiritual masters

themselves have been criticized during their lifetimes and the prejudices and

misunderstandings of mankind are well documented thelife of Christis an obvious

example. These misunderstandings still exist today. Always trust in your own sincerity, make

up your own mind and heart. To have reached a point in your evolution where you have

become deeply interested in spiritualityindicates that you are a very special person, with very

good karma, even though you may not feel this about yourself.

Sri Chinmoyhas a song-mantra, 'dak eseche bishwa prabhur dak' it means God is calling

you, your hour has struck, a profoundly special time has come in your life. Have courage and

determination and go forward with your teacher on the most wonderful and liberating

journey of them all. It is the greatest good fortune that any seeker of the truth could ever

have.

Related Links: The italicised quotes above are drawn from The Master and the Disciple - bySri

Chinmoy.

Our Path - on Sri Chinmoy's Homepage.

The Role of the Guru - by Jogyata Dallas.

Stories From The Path - by Jogyata Dallas.
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