DISCOURSES Volume II - Avatar Meher Baba Trust

The Types of MeditationPART IVASSIMILATION OF THE DIVINE TRUTHSSECTION AModes of General MeditationTHE beginnings of spiritual life are marked and helped by generalmeditation, which is not concerned exclusively with selectedspecific items of experience, but which, in its comprehensiveLimits of freephilosophicalmeditationscope, seeks to understand and assimilate theDivine Truths of life and the universe. When theaspirant is interested in the wider problems of theultimate nature of life and the universe and beginsto think about them, he may be said to have launched himself uponsuch meditation. Much of what is included under philosophy is aresult of trying to develop an intellectual grasp of the ultimatenature of life and the universe. The purely intellectual grasp ofDivine Truths remains feeble, incomplete and indecisive owing tothe limitations of the experience which may be available as thefoundation of the structures of speculation. The philosophicalmeditation of free and unaided thought does not lead to conclusiveresults. It often leads to diverse conflicting systems or views, butphilosophical meditation