Craig Pruess & Ananda - Lalitha Ashtotram

What is meditation acording to ancient one

MEDITATION PART TWO
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1. The meaning of meditation is to go deep within selves right inside of you. Those who love God that Love takes them within.
From- LM, V, 7&8, p.2608

2. Love is meditation in its highest form but only that Love which does not forget the Beloved for a single moment. The meditation is not necessary. It is superfluous. LOVE without meditation is enough- meditation without Love is not.
From- MC, p.39

3. To pay attention to what I say and desire is real meditation. What better meditation could there be than that.
From- LM,p.1145

4. In thinking day and night of the Master the disciple nearly archives the ultimate objective which is the aim of the diverse practices of meditation and concentration.
MC, p.112

5. Meditation in action, not austerities. This is service to humanity for the upliftment of Consciousness.
From- LM, foot notes of V.12

6. Really speaking, love and devotion for Beloved God are all that are necessary on this path. Meditation is neither devotion nor love, but a mental pursuit in pinning down the object of one's thoughts before one's mind's eye.
From- LM, V. 16,p.5530

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CREATION
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1. The whole creation is a play of thoughts : the outcome of the mind. It is your mind that binds you; it is also the mind that is the means of your freedom. You are eternally free. You are not bound at all.

2. Whence and wither ?: As long as the human mind does not directly experience ultimate Reality as it is, the mind is baffled in every attempt to explain the origin and purpose of creation..... The human mind can at best make brilliant conjectures about the past and the future of the universe because it is bound by the spell of Maya . It can neither arrive at final knowledge of these points, nor can it remain content with ignorance about them. "Whence ?" and "Whither?" Presupposes the beginning and the end of this evolving creation. The beginning of evolution is the beginning of time, and the end of evolution is the end of time. Evolution has both beginning and end because time has both beginning and end.
Between the beginning and the end of this changing world there are many cycles; but there is, in and through these cycles, a continuity of cosmic evolution. The real termination of the evolutionary process is called Mahapralaya,or the great annihilation of the world, when the world becomes what it was in the beginning, namely, Nothing. .... the entire objective cosmos, which is the creation of Maya, vanishes into nothingness at the time of Mahapralaya. It is as if the universe had never existed at all.

From- Dis., p23.

Lord Avatar Meher Baba

Beyond words - 1967 film of Meher Baba

MIND MEANS THINKING
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The mind is a terrible thing, it may be called a curse. It's business is to think and think...... the more so when we do not wish to think of a particular person or thing.
During meditation worldly thoughts always creep in with their continuous onslaughts, for it is the business of the mind to think, think and think. But the real thinker and meditator is he who would not pay attention to these thoughts and would go on meditating on the image of his worship, even amidst the strongest attacks.


Avatar Meher Baba.

WIn yourself

WIN YOURSELF 
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To keep your best mood in every situation, never to be upset or sad, to speak gently and lovingly, never using a harsh word, not to get excited when someone steals your things but to say from the bottom of your heart:" May Baba bless you!" that is really difficult.
To control the self is more difficult than walking on fire or glass. It is easy to win a war of nations, but most difficult to win your ownself . It is the only real thing on this path. To keep a calm head, tolerate and swallow everything. You have won the greatest war when you win yourself.
WHEN NOTHING UPSET YOU, YOU ARE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PATH.
WHEN YOU DESIRE NOTHING YOU ARE HALF- WAY OF THE PATH;
WHEN NOTHING BECOMES EVERYTHING, YOU ARE PERFECTED.
Avatar Meher Baba.

HEALING

Healing

Real healing is spiritual healing, whereby the soul, becoming free from desires, doubts and hallucinations, enjoys the eternal bliss of God.

Untimely physical healing might retard the spiritual healing. If borne willingly, physical and mental suffering can make one worthy of receiving spiritual healing.

Consider mental and physical suffering as gifts from God, which if accepted gracefully, lead to everlasting happiness.

Meher Baba, 1952? PL p31