During the meditation held in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, Sri Chinmoy reads out a number of prayers on the themes of ‘Before I pray’ and ‘Before I meditate’, which he had recently written.
Before I Pray
by Sri Chinmoy
My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For a possession-night,
May I pray to You
For a renunciation-flame,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For a renunciation-flame,
May I pray to You
For an acceptance-lamp,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For an acceptance-lamp,
May I pray to You
For a oneness-column of light,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I pray to You
For a oneness-column of light,
May I pray to You
For a surrender-sun, May I?
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My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My aspiration-height-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a dedication-length,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My dedication-length-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a union-depth,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My union-depth-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a perfection-cry,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My perfection-cry-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a satisfaction-smile.
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after
My satisfaction-smile-prayer,
May I pray to You
For a gratitude-heart,
May I?
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My Supreme Lord,
For You I have two beautiful gifts:
My prayer-sound,
My meditation-silence.
Today I am offering to You
My prayer-sound-gift.
Tomorrow I shall give to You
My meditation-silence-gift.
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Before I Meditate
by Sri Chinmoy
My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To destroy my uncomely, unaspiring
And undivine thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To grant me a pure, progressive
And promising thought-world,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To grant me a pure, progressive
And promising thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To completely silence my thought-world,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To completely silence my thought-world,
May I meditate on You
To grant me,
Out of Your boundless Bounty,
An adamantine will-world,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Before I meditate on You
To grant me an adamantine will-world,
May I meditate on You
To richly bless me
With an unalloyed, unreserved
And unconditional surrender-world,
May I?
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My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation
On the blossoming Peace,
May I meditate
On the illumining Light,
May I? *My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation
On the illumining Light,
May I meditate
On the immortalising Delight,
May I?My Supreme Lord,
Right after my meditation
On the immortalising Delight,
May I meditate
On the fulfilling Oneness,
May I?
* The first verse has inadvertently been omitted from the printed publication but is preserved in the original recording.
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My Supreme Lord,
Yesterday I placed at Your Feet
My prayer-sound gift.
Today I am placing at Your Feet
My meditation-silence gift.
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Meditation
A talk by Sri Chinmoy
at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Meditation is God-discovery. Meditation is self-mastery. Meditation is man's Eternity's progress-light in God. Meditation is God's Infinity's Satisfaction-Delight in man.
Meditation is for the truth-seeker. Meditation is for the God-lover. God's transcendental Vision-Eye blesses man the truth-seeker. God's universal Oneness-Heart embraces man the God-lover.
Yesterday's meditation-message: "Realise God." Today’s meditation-message: "Realise God, plus manifest God." Tomorrow’s meditation-message: "Realise God, manifest God and, finally, become another God."
My mind’s good meditation is the bankruptcy of my self-doubt and God-doubt. My heart's better meditation is my vastness-fulfilment and my oneness-perfection. My soul's best meditation is my life’s God-manifestation here on earth.
Before I meditate, I compel my reasoning mind to disappear. Before I meditate, I beg my loving God to appear.
After I meditate, I soulfully offer myself a new name: gratitude. After I meditate, God, out of His infinite Bounty, blesses me with a new and fruitful name: satisfaction.
Each time I meditate on God, He teaches me a new life-surrender-song. Each time God meditates on me, I offer Him a new gratitude-heart-song.
Earth meditates for man's transformation. Heaven meditates for God's Satisfaction. I meditate for my nature's complete perfection. God meditates for the universal manifestation of His own Transcendental Consciousness and Transcendental Vision here on earth.
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