“The Master is eating;” when he sleeps, he thinks, “The Master is sleeping;” when he drives a car, he thinks, “The Master is driving the car;” even when he may happen to do something wrong, he thinks, “The Master is doing this.” Thus he completely relinquishes all agency for his action, and all that is done by him is brought into direct reference to the Master. This automatically and necessarily involves and entails determination of each action in the light of the spiritual ideal as seen in the Master.
The four forms of personal meditation on the Master represent the four main ascending stages: (i) perceiving the spiritual ideal in the Master, (ii) concentrating upon the Master as an embodiment of the spiritual ideal, (iii) loving the Master as a manifestation of the spiritual ideal, and (iv) expressing the spiritual ideal, perceived in the Master, in one’s own life. Four forms of personal meditation represent four ascending stages Personal meditation on the Master, in its different forms, ultimately contributes towards the release of creative life of spiritual fulfillment. Meditation on the Master is a meditation on the living ideal and not on the bare conception of perfection. Therefore it generates that dynamic power which eventually enables the aspirant to bridge over the gulf between theory and practice, and unify the spiritual ideal with everyday activity in his own life. To live a life inspired and illumined by the spiritual ideal, as embodied in the Master, is the culmination of all the forms of personal meditation.
Part VI
SPECIALISED MEDITATIONS WHICH ARE IMPERSONAL
PART V was devoted to explanatory comments on those specialised meditations which are personal. This part will be devoted to those specialised meditations which are impersonal. Distinction between personal and impersonal meditation It might be recalled that meditation is personal when it is concerned with a person, and impersonal when it is concerned 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 Enumerative Classification given in Part V, the first four forms of meditation are personal and the remaining eight forms are impersonal. Like the forms of personal meditation, the forms of impersonal meditation also individually deserve separate explanatory comments.
Man’s attention has a tendency to be riveted on his own bodies or on other forms independent of the spirit which they manifest. This leads to illusions, entanglements and other complications. Hence arises the need for a type of meditation which will enable
