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The meditation world
- Question: Suppose you are so tired that you can't meditate, but if you slept longer and meditated an hour later, you could meditate. Which is better?
- Question: But sometimes I just fall asleep practically right in front of my shrine.
- Question: But then I spend my whole time trying to keep my physical awake and I don't really meditate.
- Question: I couldn't meditate in the morning, but I was able to meditate later in the day. Why is that?
- Question: I'm very involved in my work, and it leaves me little time to sit and meditate. I feel that my work at the restaurant is a meditation.
- Question: How do we tell if we are meditating properly and not having a mental hallucination?
- Question: Is it a good idea to compare yesterday's meditation with today's?
- Question: Is there anything I can do to always have a good meditation?
- Question: When I meditate I get a feeling of joy and then, like a pendulum, I get a feeling of absolute desolation. Why must it be like that?
- Question: Guru, how can we go deeper and deeper within to get out of the surface mind?
- Question: I once felt during meditation that my soul came out of the body.
- Question: Guru, one time when I was meditating I suddenly found myself thinking about some friends who needed some help. Mentally I could never describe the power I felt at this time, but I took these friends and lifted them. Two or three days later these friends were helped. Somebody needed a job and he got it and somebody was ill and he got better. Is it related to my experience or was it mere coincidence that they were helped?
- Question: What is the supreme purpose of prayer?
- Question: What is the best way to pray for loved ones who have left the body?
- Question: What kind of prayer or meditation should we offer before eating food?
Conversation on Olga's birthday
- Celebrating Olga's Birthday
- Question: Am I ready to be your disciple? Is my status high enough to be in your group? I haven't prepared any questions.
- Question: I came when I was forty-five. I am now seventy-two. But after I got my sickness in the head, my tumour, I forgot all my languages; sometimes I forget even Russian words.
- Question: What must I do to meditate correctly? Chidananda tells me many things about meditation, but sometimes I concentrate too much on something and this concentration is much too difficult for meditation.
- Question: Sometimes I have questions about my belief in Jesus Christ and now in...
- Question: What must I do now in my life to change my next incarnation?
- Question: My tumour won't make any difficulty in my spiritual life?
- Question (later): I have had seventy-two birthdays, but I have never had such a beautiful birthday as today. Thank you very much, very much, very much.
