DISCOURSES Volume II - Avatar Meher Baba Trust

The Types of MeditationPART IITHE CHIEF TYPES OF MEDITATIONAND THEIR RELATIVE VALUEMEDITATION is of different types which can be convenientlydistinguished from each other on the basis of three distinctprinciples. They can be classified either on the basis of the functionTypes of meditationclassified by threeprinciplesmeditation performs in spiritual advancement,or the part of personality that ispredominantly brought into play during theprocess of meditation, or the items ofexperience it tries to understand. Of these three principles, any onecan be adopted for the classification of the different types ofmeditation. The last principle will be used later while giving adetailed account of the different forms of meditation, as it is mostsuitable for enumerative purposes. This part will make use of thefirst two principles, as they are helpful in different ways inexplaining the relative value of the various forms of meditation.With reference to the first principle, meditation has to servethe purpose of associating consciousness with the eternal Truth,and of dissociating consciousness from the false and unimportantthings of the phenomenal