Meditation as means of linking the self to God:-
WHEN we want to contact other peoplenty to day trom us, we need some form of energy as an agency to do it through. For instance, when a person contacts another on telephone, the sound. waves of his voice are carried through the instrument to the person at the other end by electro-magnetic force. Without the electric cur. rent, the telephone is said to be ‘dead’, i.e. unfit for use as a medium of communication. There are, thus, several agencies involved in this process of communication, viz, sound, electricity and magnetism. An air pilot, before landing at an airport, can similarly communicate with the Air Control Officer at the port through radio-telephone (wireless) where again the above-mentioned forms of energy operate to bring about the contact between two persons. On the moon, where sound does not reach, the directions from the earth are conveyed through the Remote Control System so as to be translated into words for the spacemen at the other end through electro-magnetic force. Again, when the person is addressing a vast audience, he needs the help of both light and sound energies to be able to establish audio-visual contact with them. In the absence of any light-either from the sun or electricity-the speaker and the listeners would be invisible to each other, while, in the absence of a microphone, the speaker’s voice would not be perfectly audible to the listners, with the result that the address will become ineffective for want of mental rapport between the speaker and his audience. The operation of the self-same two energies-light and sound is yet again in evidence when two persons meet or converse with each other face to face. Without the presence of these media, i.e., light-waves to convey both heir images and voices, the two persons could neither see nor talk to each other.
Marvellous though these physical energies-heat, light, sound, magnetism and electricity of this material world are, they are not of much use in helping man to have link with God for the simple reason that He is not a material entity, perceptible through the phy- sical sense-organs. He is a subtle, eternal verity, far far away and far different from any of the forces, mentioned above. He can be contacted, therefore, only through the Thought Energy which surpas- ses, both in speed and intensity, all the above-mentioned forces in that it can, as it were, go through space and the remotest and subtlest regions to the incorporeal God. In other words, meditation is the only means by which the soul can, at once, contact the Supreme Soul.
