Power
20. Breathing in peace, power and joy
In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy offers some simple breathing techniques for the development of purity, peace, power and joy. Remember to practice these exercises according to your own capacity. If you push or pull too hard beyond your limitations, you may become frustrated and discouraged.
11. The power of the soul
In this weeks meditation exercise, Sri Chinmoy asks us to bring forward the power of the soul — that spark of divinity which resides in all of us. If we can practice our meditation sincerely and regularly, the soul will naturally come forward and take responsibility for our meditation — the soul will in fact meditate in and through us. Our job is to keep the mind as calm and tranquil as possible — like a still lake — and to keep our heart-doors open. The rest will unfold as time passes.
Some of the great secrets of meditation are to practice regularly and sincerely — and to have perseverance and never give up (no matter how well or how badly we might think we are doing)! With the right attitude, the capacity to meditate deeply will come with time and bring with it immeasurable joy.
Sri Chinmoy's words:
07. The power of concentration
Sri Chinmoy suggests the following exercise to develop power in your concentration and to acquire power from your meditation:
When you want to get the power of concentration, identify yourself with the tiniest thing possible. Then only will you become all-powerful. God is all-powerful not because He is vastness itself, but because He is inside the elephant as well as the ant. God is all-powerful because He can be both elephant and ant. He is the infinite and He is the finite. Just because He is finite and infinite at the same time, He is omnipotent.
So if you want to meditate and acquire power, just think of Infinity itself, because there is God's infinite power. But if you want to develop power through your concentration, think of something very subtle, very small. (Source: Creation and Perfection – by Sri Chinmoy)
Don't be afraid of your meditation-power. Don't be a fool. It is your meditation that can and will give you the indomitable courage to conquer all your other fears. — Sri Chinmoy