Concentration, meditation and contemplation

• Concentration, meditation and contemplation
• Question: Can you tell us how to concentrate and meditate?
• Question: Do we not sometimes mistake the strong concentration of the vital for a good or strong meditation?

Meditation and invocation

• Question: What happens when several disciples invoke you at once?
• Question: If we chant somebody's name when they are asleep, does it still feed their soul?
• Question: How should we chant "Supreme" in a group?
• Question: Guru, if you are meditating in the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the United Nations, for example, can the surrounding rooms be affected by your presence?
• Question: Do you like meditating outdoors in parks?
• Question: How can we give up the desire for a strong meditation so that the soul-awareness with its most subtle vibration gets a chance to come forward more fully?
• Question: Each morning should we try to get up as early as we can for meditation?
• Question: What if you've gone to bed late the night before? Should you still keep the same meditation time?
• Question: How long should we meditate?
• Question: What about Sunday when we have group meditation at six o'clock? Six o'clock is not my regular meditation time.
• Question: One day I have to leave the house at five o'clock in the morning, so I get up earlier than on other days and meditate at four-thirty.
• Question: What if there are unexpected ties and we can't meditate in the morning at our regular time?
• Question: Recently while meditating I have been having painful sensations. Are these attacks of undivine forces?
• Question: Sometimes I feel that I am meditating well in my heart, but my head is resisting. Then I have a lot of pressure and tension in the top of my mind.
• Question: When I try to feel something flowing in my meditation, I feel that I get complacent. Should I try to work harder at it?
• Question: What is the significance of seeing an intense blue light during meditation?
• Question: What should we do if our flame of aspiration isn't burning as intensely during meditation as we would like?
• Question: Sometimes after meditating I lose the joy that I have received from my meditation. Is there a method that would help me keep that joy?

Initiation and the Master

• Initiation and the Master
• Question: I have been initiated by a Master, but another Master has given me some advice about my spiritual life. Should I follow his advice?
• Question: Would the opening of the third eye have to be done by a Master or would we have to do this ourselves?
• Question: What advice do you have for a seeker who feels he is not making progress?
• Question: There are many Gurus nowadays coming to Europe and America. Are they coming because of the inspiration that they receive from their inner being, or is there a movement there which sent them here?

Palmistry, reincarnation and the dream state

• Palmistry, reincarnation and the dream state
• Question: Guru, have you ever had your horoscope drawn up?
• Question: Is it true that we have nightmares when we sleep with our hands on our chest?
• Question: What causes bad dreams?
• Question: I have sometimes awakened in the middle of the night with a strong feeling of elation and joy. Is there something that takes place while we are sleeping that we are not aware of?
• Question: Can the psychic being be damaged? If it is damaged, how can it be brought back into harmony?
• Question: Will someone who leads a spiritual life in one incarnation choose to have a worldly life in his next incarnation?
• Question: If someone does something extremely well in this incarnation, does this mean that he got this ability from a previous incarnation?
• Question: Can I ask you something about your previous incarnations?
• Question: Do spiritual Masters make promises to return to earth until all human beings are realised because they forget what it is like in Heaven when they are on earth?
• Question: Do people meditate in Heaven and does their consciousness go up and down?
• Question: If someone is violently killed, does his soul undergo the same suffering as that of someone who has committed suicide?
• Question: Recently I was reading excerpts from a Russian writer relating the terrible sufferings of political prisoners under the Stalin regime. What if somebody in that situation committed suicide to end the unbearable sufferings? Would that person have the same punishment as someone who simply takes his own life in a mood of escapism?