All Life Is Yoga: Meditation () von Sri Aurobindo

I. BASIC EXPLANATION1. What Meditation Exactly Means2. What Should Be the Objects or Ideas for Meditation3. Most Essential Conditions for Meditation4. Two Common Difficulties in Meditation5. The First Thing to Know: Why One Meditates6. The One Need7. How to MeditateII. TRUE MEDITATION1. Inner Contemplation2. Pseudo-Meditation and the True Humility3. The State of Samadhi and Progress4. Forces Brought In During Meditation5. Length of the Meditation PeriodIII. DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEDITATION1. Different Kinds of Meditation2. Meditation on a Sentence3. Imagination and Meditation4. Collective MeditationIV. GUIDANCE TO DISCIPLES1. Indispensable Complement of Meditation: Work2. Meditation, Devotion and WorksV. SADHANA THROUGH MEDITATION1. Three Powers of Concentration Their Right Use2. Utility of Meditation and Contemplation in Yoga3. Difficulties of Meditation4. Concentration Nature and Importance5. How to Concentrate6. Centres of Concentration

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on meditation, concentration and contemplation. "What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device, the true movement is when even walking, working or speaking one is still in sadhana." (Sri Aurobindo)