I have been searching for the methods and means of meditation. Today I found 2 of Amma's quotes on it, thanks to a lovely facebook group called WE LOVE AMMA ...(don't we all!):
"Children know that meditation is the saving principle that makes you immortal and eternal. Meditation takes you across the cycle of death and rebirth. Meditation is ambrosia. It actually prevents the fear of death. It makes you egoless and takes you to the state of no mind. Once you transcend the mind, you cannot die. Meditation and spiritual practices give you the power and courage to smile at death. Meditation helps you to see everything as a delightful play so that even the moment of death becomes a blissful experience."
Amma
And even better, is this quote in which Amma tells us how to meditate:
Q: Mother, how should we practice meditation?
Amma: Place a small picture of a God or Goddess that you like in front of you. Sit gazing at the picture for some time. Then, while closing your eyes, try to see the form within. When the form within fades away, again look at the external picture. Then again close your eyes. Imagine that you are talking to your beloved deity, 'Mother, please do not go away and abandon me. Come into my heart. Let me always see Your beautiful form'. Cry, embracing your beloved deity. That which we meditate on will appear in front of us if we constantly call out with faith. One can understand the secret of bliss when you think of the nature of the Self. The happiness that we get from the objects of the world is only an infinitesimal fraction of the bliss that we get from within."
Om Amriteswariye namah!
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