Meditation For A New Humanity: Guided Meditation for Spiritual Seekers

By Meher Baba

This powerful, hardcover book offers invaluable insights and practical strategies for a deeper meditation practice. The book opens with a rare, guided meditation discourse by Meher Baba and explains the subtleties of meditation, without compromising on the Goal: "every hour, every minute, one must crave for God, as a drowning man craves for life." Meher Baba promises that "meditation . . . done in the cause of Truth never goes in vain." With an unwavering focus on the necessity of experiencing mindful divinity, Meher Baba affirms, "reality must be realized and the divinity of God must be attained and lived. The Goal is to realize the Reality and attain the 'I am God' state in human form."

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667855141

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MEHER BABA

ON MEDITATION

A DISCOURSE

THIS discourse on meditation was given by Meher Baba to his close disciples in the early 30s and recorded by one of them. While it does not follow the format of a ‘guided meditation’, seekers can deepen their practice by following the six methods of spiritual meditation.

Generally the word ‘meditation’ is used to express particular mental exercises and efforts in connection with religious and spiritual ideas, but it would not be incorrect to say that it is systematic thinking, and as such it is taken recourse to by many a person in the everyday life of the world. Before doing anything, one has to think about it; in other words, one has to meditate on the intended action. The thinking or meditation may, in worldly life, last for hours together, or only for a fraction of a minute, but it has to be undertaken consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally, before anything could be done or brought about.

Now just consider that if thinking or meditation is necessary in achieving gross results, how necessary it must be in reaching the spiritual subtleties that lead to Self-realization. But for that purpose, the thinking is to be organized on the principle of Truth that is oneness, in contrast with the universe which is apparently based on manifoldness.

Thinking is considered by people to be the process that leads only to the manifestation of external force which is displayed in gross action. But such is not the case. Just as even a random thought can manifest force in the shape of a bodily action, meditation or deep or properly organized thinking produces a force of its own which is very useful and helpful to a spiritual aspirant. The manifestation of such force, produced through deep and methodical thinking, may not become evident immediately or in a short time in every case, but meditation is bound to bear fruit in the long