Part II — Vibrations

Question: Could you speak about vibrations?

Sri Chinmoy: Each individual carries a special vibration, either divine or undivine. If people are living an ordinary animal life, naturally you will feel a kind of strange vibration from them. Even we who are aspiring can’t always maintain the same standard. As soon as you go to a movie or ride on the subway, automatically the vibration there pulls your consciousness down. The vibration is coming right from the street, so it is very difficult to maintain a high consciousness.

At that time, if you give yourself a mark, you may not get more than twenty out of a hundred. Then again, when you are in the meditation hall, you will get a hundred out of a hundred. With ordinary people, who knows if they are trying to become good or not. But in spite of their efforts to become sincere, undivine forces may intervene and try to create problems for them. So you can’t blame ordinary people; they are at the mercy of the forces. In your case, on the subway or somewhere else, it is very difficult for you to maintain your own consciousness. But if wherever you go you can maintain a high consciousness, then you have really achieved something.