One of the most important practices for someone who aspires to climb up the ascending path, is certainly meditation. The reason for this is that this practice enables us to go deeper within our consciousness, as well as in our subconscious mind, than what we can do when go about our mundane daily activities. Generally speaking, we can divide meditation in two parts – introspective and contemplative. We can also name those two main parts of meditation as transformative meditation and transcendental meditation. With the introspective, or transformative, meditation we go within ourselves and search for the origin of our suffering; we are discovering about the many selves that we have within us, so that we can learn about them and ultimately eliminate them from our interior, setting the consciousness free. On the other hand, the contemplative or transcendental meditation can show us the essence of whatever we want to learn more about. through meditation it is possible to access and make available certain psychic abilities, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, intuition etc. However, these come with the merits of the heart, as the spiritual work is carried out. And lastly, knowledge is another important element why many people meditate. Through this practice we can access information that is normally inaccessible to our five physical senses, but in order to achieve this we first need to enter a suitable state of mind; a certain tranquillity that allows us to direct the light of consciousness on the topic that we feel we could benefit from. If our goal is noble enough, the gift of knowledge could be granted to us by our own Being, and the information we seek can be given to us in the form of the “ray of understanding”.
"Meditation occurs when the inner world recognizes the entire universe as part of its own reality.”