This is a writing from Swami Krishnananda
The Divine Life Society
A Guide to Meditation
(108 sentences on meditation taken from various writings by Swami Krishnananda)
1.
The object of meditation is the final choice that you make in this world.
2.
Each one of you has to choose your beloved object for meditation.
3.
The essential thought to be remembered in all meditations is that there should be no thought except that of the chosen object, or the ideal of meditation.
4.
Actually, every work done with a feeling of devotion is also a kind of meditation.
5.
By meditation, observation and reasoning one comes to realise that Existence is not space and space is not Existence.
6.
Brahman's all attributes mentioned in the Upanishads, positive as well as negative, may be brought together in a single group as aids to meditation.
7.
Brahman is the Absolute, and one cannot meditate on Brahman, because it is inclusive of even the meditator himself.
8.
Clear-sightedness, passionlessness, serenity, self-restraint, indifference to the world, fortitude, faith, collecte ...