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Vol. 4, Mental Purification
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9. Concentration
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3. Meditation
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Vol. 4, Mental Purification
9. Concentration
3. Meditation
The third part of concentration is meditation. In this grade one becomes communicative; one communicates with the silent life, and naturally a communication opens up with the outer life also. It is then that a man begins to realize that both the outer and the inner life, everything, in fact, is communicative. Then a man begins to learn what can never be learnt by study or from books, that the silent life is the greatest teacher and knows all things. It does not only teach, but gives that peace, that joy, that power and harmony which make life beautiful.
No one can claim to be meditative. For a meditative person need not say it with the lips. His atmosphere says so, and it is the atmosphere alone which can say whether it is true or false. Once I asked my spiritual teacher what was the sign of knowing God. He said, "Not those who call out the Name of God, but those whose silence says it." Many go about looking, searching for something worth while, something wonderful, but there is nothing more wonderful than the soul of man.
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