Meditation is not some strange technique that we have to learn wit hgreate effort and difficulty. There is already a strong element of meditaiton in our lives, but we are simply not aware of it. Wehn we read, when we study, or wen we do research, we have to focus the mind. When we drive a car or operate machinery, we have to pay attention. When we explain something to a friend, we have to concentrate in order to make ourseleves under stood, and our friend has to concentratie in order to understand us. Lovers meditate on one another; a mother meditates on her child. Wehatever we accomplish in this world we accomplish through the powe ro concentration. Which is nothing but meditation.

Meditation is a complete path. It is not only brings inner experiences, but removes all the worries and tensions of the mind and washes away the sins of countless lifetimes. Medition is not merelya technique; It is a means by which we can actually see th Truth as it is. By meditating more and more on the inner Truth, we ourselves become that Truth. Through meditaion our inner awareness becomes steadily deeper, and our understanding of internal and external things becomes sharper. Above all, medition stills the wandering mind and established us forever in a state of peace that remains stable no matter what happens around us. Through meditation we becoem aware of our fundamental unity with all things. We cannot attain that awareness by reading books or listeing to lectures. We can attain it only through direct experience. To have that experience we must pass from one state of awareness to another, moving gradually to deeper and deeper levels of our being. In meditation this is exactly what happens: We pass from the level in which we have the awareness " I am the body" to the level in which we have the experience " I am God."