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mental calm, then direct your atten-

tion to discovery of what you want 

to know about God, your relation-

ship to God, and cosmic processes. 

Contemplate clear states of conscious-

ness and awaken to them. Directing 

attention in this way is meditative 

contemplation, which is successfully 

accomplished when concentration and 

meditation culminate in insight or 

realized experience as determined by 

your aspiration and focused intention. 

Examples of accomplished meditative 

contemplation are (1) discernment 

of knowledge; (2) actualization of the 

soul qualities of peace, happiness, 

compassion, wholeness, and excep-

tional functional skills; (3) vivid expe-

rience of refined superconscious states 

and transcendent realizations.

When the intellectual faculty is 

unveiled and purified, superior powers 

of discernment can be demonstrated. 

When intuition is unveiled, the truth 

about whatever is examined can be 

directly and immediately known. 

When awareness of our true nature is 

no longer obscured by illusions and 

delusions, we are enlightened; our 

Self-revealed knowledge is reflected 

in our illumined mind and expressed 

through our refined physical body. 

When permanently established in 

this realization and consciousness is 

no longer influenced by the qualities 

of nature or of cosmic forces, we are 

liberated.

A Meditation Routine to Practice

Bathe or wash your hands and face 

and take a few sips of cool water. Wear 

loose, comfortable clothing. Go to 

your meditation place with anticipa-

tion. Assume an alert, upright medita-

tion posture.

• Pause for a moment or two to get

settled and comfortable. With 

stomach muscles relaxed, take two 

or three deeper than normal breaths, 

then exhale. Relax your face, neck, 

and shoulder muscles. Be poised and 

peaceful.

• Look into the spiritual eye between

your eyebrows.

• Acknowledge the innate divinity of

all souls.

• Acknowledge the truth of your

being, knowing and sensing that you 

are a flawless expression of Supreme 

Consciousness and that all knowl-

edge of God and of the processes of 

the cosmos is within you.

• Think of God as God is real to you.

Intuitively sense that you are residing 

in a field of boundless, omnipresent, 

pure consciousness.

• If you have a guru, think of your

guru with reverence. Be thankful for 

that relationship.

• Let any remaining sense of indepen-

dent selfhood dissolve. Acknowledge 

that God's wholeness includes you. 

Feel your awareness to be absorbed 

in oneness.

• Pray for the ability to meditate  

effectively and to experience soul 

unfoldment.