What is Meditation

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Devotee: What should one think of when meditating?

Bhagavan: What is meditation? It is the suspension of thoughts. You are

perturbed by thoughts which rush one after another. Hold on to one thought so

that the others are expelled. Continuous practice gives the necessary strength

of mind to engage in meditation. Meditation differs according to the degree of

advancement of the seeker. If one is fit for it one can hold directly to the

thinker; and the thinker will automatically sink into his source, which is Pure

consciousness. If one cannot directly hold on to the thinker, on must meditate

on God; and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently pure

to hold to the thinker and sink into the absolute Being.

 

>From the Teaching of Ramana Maharshi edited by Osborne