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Various Forms of Meditation and Their Potential Benefits · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Most people are confused about what meditation is one of the
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  causes of this confusion, is the variety of forms of meditation
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  that are recommended in practice, by various Traditions.
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  Some forms of meditation require strenuous efforts and
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  considerable time to bear fruit. The mother provides insight into
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  meditation and proposes a method.
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  She finds most suitable, her preferred method harnesses, the
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  power of aspiration, which reminds us of the focus of the
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  refuse of the rig Veda, who placed ogni.
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  The Mystic fire, the flame of aspiration in front as the first
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  power to be engaged in achieving realization.
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  The mother writes quote, it is very difficult to meditate.
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  They're all kinds of meditations.
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  You may take an idea and follow it to arrive at a given result.
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  This is an active meditation, people who want to solve a
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  problem or to write meditate in this way without knowing that
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  they are meditating. Others sit down and try to
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  concentrate on something without following an idea simply to
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  concentrate on a point in order to intensify one's power of
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  concentration. And this brings about what
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  usually happens when you concentrate upon a point.
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  If you succeed in gathering your capacity for concentration,
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  sufficiently upon a point. Whether mental, vital or
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  physical at a given moment, you pass through and enter into
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  another consciousness. Others, still try to drive out
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  from their head all movements ideas, reflexes reactions, and
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  to arrive at a truly silent Tranquility.
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  This is extremely difficult. There are people have tried for
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  25 years and not succeeded. For this something like taking a
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  bull by the horns. There's another kind of
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  meditation which consists in being as quiet as one can be.
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  But without trying to stop all thoughts for there are thoughts
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  which are purely mechanical and if you try to stop these you
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  will need years and into the bargain.
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  You will not be sure of the result.
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  Instead of that, you gathered together all your Consciousness
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  and remain as quiet and peaceful as possible.
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  You detach yourself from external things as though they
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  do not interest you at all. In all of a sudden you brighten
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  the flame of aspiration and throw into it.
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  Everything that comes to you so that the flame may rise higher
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  and higher. Higher and higher.
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  You identify yourself with it and you go up to the extreme
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  point of your Consciousness and aspiration thinking of nothing
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  else, simply an aspiration, which mounts mounts mounts
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  without thinking, a minute of the result of what may happen
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  and specially of what may not and above all without Desiring,
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  that something may come. Simply the joy of an aspiration,
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  which mounts and mounts and mounts intensifying itself more
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  and more in a constant concentration.
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  And there I met assure you, that what happens is, the best that
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  can happen. That is it is the maximum of
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  your possibilities, which is realized.
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  When you do this, these possibilities may be very
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  different according to individuals, but then all these
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  worries about trying to be silent, going behind
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  appearances, calling a force which answers waiting for an
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  answer to your questions, all that van.
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  It's like an unreal vapor. And if you succeed in living
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  consciously in this flame in this column of mounting
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  aspiration, you will see that. Even if you do not have an
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  immediate result after a time, something will happen.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth
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  exercises for growth. And Mastery.
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  Dynamic meditation Pages, 155 to 156.