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Ways of Meditation
There are three ways of meditating. One we sit as abhyasis
and meditate on the light in the heart. The second is the higher stage
when we think, I mean when we sit in meditation, and meditate on the
form of the Master, the form of the Master in the heart. There is a
third stage, it is when the Master begins to meditate on the abhyasi
. And that is a very rare occurrence. You see, such a person should
be born, and such a Master is blessed when he gets a disciple upon whom
He has to meditate!
CAN WE DO MEDITATION ON MASTER'S FORM?Meditation on the Master's
form is supposed to begin only when the form appears spontaneously before
us, and it must be natural. If you try to force the form upon yourself
for meditation, it is unnatural. Of course, Babuji started meditating
on His Master's form from day one. For others, like us, we have to wait
till our devotion to the Master is so much, our love for Him is so much,
that when we look for the light in the heart, we see Him there.
The second thing is when the form appears, we must meditate on the
full from, not just on the face. That is from the foot up to the top
of the head, everything must be there. Now when it is artificial, and
people take the form of the Master for meditation, they take only face.
For the Master, Babuji, it was possible, because the moment he saw Him
he developed a hundred per cent devotion for Him. Therefore he could
start to do meditation on the form of his Master. It doesn't apply for
all of us.
There is a third stage. And that is when the form also disappears from
the heart. And I think we come to the stage which Master calls light
without luminosity. So we have the first stage which is light in the
heart, when people sometimes see the light itself as a luminous thing.
As we advance it becomes light without any features, just the idea of
light is there.
So in the first stage we have a sort of refinement from the grosser
light to the subtle light. Then the idea of devotion brings the Master
into the heart. And for most, if not all abhyasis
it stops with that. I mean the idea of the Master in the heart; the
presence of the Master goes on and on, you see.
The third stage, when the form also disappears, there is nothing in
the heart, no light, no form, nothing. That I think is a very difficult
and very rare condition. It is also very difficult, because to have
to meditate on nothing or nothingness is almost impossible. The other
difficulty is we become attached in an emotional way to the form of
the Master, and we are not willing to give it up. I think the third
stage is possible only when we can love the Master without loving his
form itself. I would suggest that that is the requirement of all love;
that the love of the form is transferred to the love of the essence
which has no form.
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