Chapter 3The Role of Concentration and Meditation · The Object of Meditation

What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrat-ing? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device, the true movement is when even walking, working or speaking one is still in sadhana.

* What is most important [in meditation] is the change of consciousness of which this feeling of oneness is a part. The going deep in meditation is only a means and it is not always necessary if the great experiences come easily without it.

* The best help for concentration is to receive the Mother’s calm and peace into your mind. It is there above you — only the mind and its centres have to open to it. It is what the Mother is pushing upon you in the evening meditation.

* through many progressive experiences into a higher consciousness in union with the Divine.

* To enter into a deeper or higher consciousness or for that deeper or higher consciousness to descend into you — that is the true success of meditation.