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Stages and Forms of Meditation and Contemplation (Dhyana) · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is considerable confusion about what exactly meditation
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  is. This is compounded by the fact
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  that there are numerous different techniques that are
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  taught as meditation, ranging from practices that are called
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  mindfulness to those, that include detailed visualizations,
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  SRI aurobindo provides an overview of various practices
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  that fall under the concept of Gianna, which is not precisely
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  translated as meditation. There is us, not one.
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  Absolute, and perfect method of meditation.
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  Rather meditation can be practiced variously by different
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  individuals based on their capacity, their background, and
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  the inner need SRI aurobindo observes quote.
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  There are two words used in English to express the Indian
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  idea of Gianna meditation and contemplation meditation means
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  properly the concentration of the mind on a single train of
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  ideas, which workout a single subject, contemplation means
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  regarding mentally, a single object image idea.
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  So that the knowledge about the object image or idea, You may
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  arise naturally in the Mind by force of the concentration.
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  Both these things are forms of Tiana.
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  For the principle of Tiana is mental concentration, whether in
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  thought Vision or knowledge, there are other forms of Tiana.
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  There is a passage in which Vivekananda advises you to stand
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  back from your thoughts. Let them occur in your mind as
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  they will and simply observe them and see what they are.
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  This may be called concentration in self-observation.
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  This form leads to another the emptying of all thought out of
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  the mind. So as to leave it, a sort of
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  pure Vigilant blank on which the Divine knowledge may come and
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  imprinted Itself undisturbed by the inferior, thoughts of the
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  ordinary human mind and with the clearness of a writing and white
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  chalk on a Blackboard, You will find that the Gita speaks of
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  this rejection of all mental thought as one of the methods of
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  yoga and even the method it seems to prefer this may be
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  called the Dianna of Liberation as it frees.
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  The Mind From Slavery to the mechanical process of thinking
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  and allows it to think or not to think as it pleases and when it
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  pleases or to choose its own thoughts or Us to go beyond
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  thought to the pure perception of Truth called an hour
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  philosophy. Mignogna meditation is the
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  easiest process for the human mind, but the narrowest in its
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  results. Contemplation more difficult,
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  but greater self observation and Liberation from the change of
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  thought the most difficult of all, but the widest and greatest
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  in its fruits One can choose any of them according to one's bent
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  and capacity. The perfect method is to use the
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  mall each in its own place and for its own object.
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  But this would need a fixed faith and firm patience and a
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  great energy of Will and the self application to the yoga and
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  reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 5. growth of
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  Consciousness means and methods Pages, 85 to 86,