DISCOURSES Volume II - Avatar Meher Baba Trust

The Types of MeditationPART VISPECIALISED MEDITATIONS WHICH AREIMPERSONALPART V was devoted to explanatory comments on thosespecialised meditations which are personal. This part will bedevoted to those specialized meditations which are impersonal.Distinction betweenpersonal and impersonalmeditationIt might be recalled that meditation ispersonal when it is concerned with aperson, and impersonal when it isconcerned with (a) aspects of personality or(b) something which falls outside the range of human personality,as it is commonly understood. In the Table of EnumerativeClassification given in Part V, the first four forms of meditationare personal and the remaining eight forms are impersonal. Likethe forms of personal meditation, the forms of impersonalmeditation also individually deserve separate explanatorycomments.Man's attention has a tendency to be riveted on his ownbodies or on other forms independent of the spirit which theymanifest. This leads to illusions, entanglements and othercomplications. Hence arises the need for a type of meditationwhich will enable