Meditation is knowledge through love. The practice of meditation is a fundamental tool which helps one to integrate all of ones being and all of ones life into a whole creative endeavour. The science meditation is explained in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras (recommended; The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras, by Sri Swami Satchidananda (Paperback). Essentially meditation is the means by which the consciousness of the personality can be brought to a clear focus in the mind/heart and be made to reflect the soul –the non-dual energy field- achieving a realisation thereof. As the relationship between soul and personality is developed in the reflective medium of the tranquil heart/mind, a gradual fusion and oneness takes place. This is the process of self realisation and connects one to the unlimited source of peace, joy and energy within one’s own self.

Meditation is divided into 3 sections: concentration, meditation and contemplation.

Concentration is the wilful focusing of the mind on an object. This can be likened to falling in love, where there is an intense attraction and the minds wilful desire is to focus on its object of love which is as yet a separate thing. 

Meditation results from concentration and finds a oneness of mind and object, held with an intimate, effortless will. A distinction between mind consciousness and object remains but, the oneness is perfect. This is like being in love. There is a oneness of lover and beloved, and the object of love is known intimately by the agent of love, through the agency of love. There is still a distinction between mind and object in the same way that s/he is ‘expreinced to be ´your’´lover.

Contemplation is the effortless holding of the mind and object in unity, here the distinction between mind and object disappears and the object is ‘known’ completely as if ones very own self. There is a real-isation of the subject in the object. You have become the object and as such it seems that the object has revealed its real nature to you. This can be likend to a life time of happy marriage, where the two partners are so identified with each other and know each other so well, that they have lost all notion of being separate selves. They think of themselves as One, without even thinking about it. 

Exprerence is real if it is real. Intellectual knowledge and information in the mind are not real, rather they constitute a culivation of the mindstuff in preparation for its fitness at receiving direct knowledge of a subject through meditative realisation. If one has much intellectual knowledge of water but has never been swimming then the first actual experience of swimming in water can be very profound and diferent to the thought form of water which was constructed and entertained by the mind. 

This distinction is vital in pursuit of love wisdom. Just as the lotus is burried in the mud in order to find its way to the light, so must the mind penetrate deeply into the essence of unwisdom to understand its nature in order to find its way into the light of wisdom. Superfiscial insights only leads to superfiscial remedies. If the object of meditation is the non-dual nature of the Soul, which is the essence of all things, then one can gain an infinate inner resource in the transformation of stress, by applying valid transpersonal practices pertinent to the causal determination of wisdom and ignorance involved in the issue, and by applying these practices through the science of meditation. Why is that? If one is polarised within the heart, in the Soul, then one is plarised wtihin the heart of all matter, experience, desire, thought, energy, emotion, etc. Therefore, by focusing on various levels of a situation, within the soul of it, one understands in absolute terms what it means because one has become the ´it´. If, however, as is usually the case in modern intellecual information cutlure, one takes various points of view then one is seperate from the nature of the question. One is outside of ´it´ trying to look in. At best there is a clear cognition of the surface, but the qaulity, energy, nature, idea and soul of ´it´ remain undiscovered until one discovers them in and as oneself. Meditation is complete knowledge through valid epistemological enquirey. Learn this