Conversations with Sri Chinmoy – 17
admin @ August 12, 2010 #
Question: Is it acceptable to offer the joy that one derives from one’s outer life to God? For instance, my music, my songs — although they are not religious songs — or is it an offense?
Every great advance in science has issued from
a new audacity of the imagination. - JOHN DEWEY
published weekly, issue 107, Monday August 23, 2010
admin @ August 12, 2010 #
Question: Is it acceptable to offer the joy that one derives from one’s outer life to God? For instance, my music, my songs — although they are not religious songs — or is it an offense?
admin @ July 29, 2010 #
Question: What do you think of a person who is an atheist?
admin @ July 20, 2010 #
Question: Why should spiritual people accept life around them?
admin @ July 14, 2010 #
Question: I heard the beautiful explanation of your philosophy about life. Really, that is what I understand by philosophy. But there is a word in Spanish, maybe it is because of the translation into Spanish, “to accept life”. To accept or discover. Is there not a difference between acceptance without investigation, without doubt and merely discovering life?
admin @ July 6, 2010 #
Question: You said that the human in us is scared to death when it sees vastness. Could you explain this a little more?
admin @ July 1, 2010 #
Question: I feel that spirituality is essential for everyone and has to come first in our life. What are your thoughts on this?
admin @ June 15, 2010 #
Question: How can the knowledge of spirituality help professional people in their effort to help mankind through their work?
admin @ June 8, 2010 #
Question: I find it very hard to talk about spiritualism and materialism as distinct. There are many things that you might call material, that I will call spiritual. For example, eating is very often a spiritual experience. You can call it material, but I’ll call it spiritual; and I think we may be both right.
admin @ June 1, 2010 #
Question: Is the difference between materialism and spirituality that in the one case we try to possess the outer world and in the other case we try to possess the inner world? Sri Chinmoy: When we practise inner philosophy, we want to capture the spiritual world; we don’t want to capture the material world. We [...]
admin @ May 27, 2010 #
Question: What is the relationship between character and spirituality?
admin @ May 20, 2010 #
Question: Is there a simple approach to God-realisation?
admin @ May 17, 2010 #
Question: Is there any contradiction between seeking worldly riches and the seeking of Absolute Truth?
admin @ May 11, 2010 #
Question: Could you explain what inner hunger is?
admin @ April 27, 2010 #
Question: You said that we are all evolving and progressing. But where did this whole process start? Was there a beginning?
admin @ April 21, 2010 #
Question: I’d like to know if there is any way that we can still meditate and practise yoga without giving up our own religion?
admin @ April 7, 2010 #
Question: Do you respect other religions?
admin @ April 2, 2010 #
Question: Is your path a religion?
admin @ December 2, 2009 #
Is God Father or Mother to you?
admin @ November 25, 2009 #
Question: Do you recognise Jesus Christ as a prophet, as the Son of God or as a friend of mankind, historically engaged in raising its social and spiritual level?
admin @ November 11, 2009 #
Your disciples have come to you from many different religions…
admin @ November 4, 2009 #
Question: You are originally from a very old and classical religion, which has been tested through the centuries. What do you think of the new religions that appear frequently in the United States, which stress social-life activities?
admin @ October 28, 2009 #
Question: You have written: “Sri Krishna meditated …
admin @ October 21, 2009 #
Question: Why do the different religions of the world often depict God in many different ways and ascribe to His Will such diverse opinions on fundamental world issues?
admin @ October 7, 2009 #
Question: God is all Love and Goodness. Will He allow mankind, in its arrogance and greed, to destroy the world?
admin @ October 2, 2009 #
Question: Will man survive the impending ecological disasters?…