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“The only way to know God is meditation. Meditation means a state of consciousness, where all thoughts have been dropped. The thoughts still remain there, but they are no more part of you. You have transcended them, and you are standing above them like a watcher on the hills. That is what meditation is. Meditation is not against thought. Meditation is transcendence. Transcendence is going beyond thoughts.And these are the great moments of life, when love starts showering from the beyond and one becomes a beloved of God. But one has to earn it, one has to be worthy of it and one has to deserve it. That earning comes through meditation. Meditation prepares you to receive love. After beginning to meditate when I was 15 years old, and after conducting satsang for 10 years in Sweden, I began to meet God every day. I meet God in the wind, and in the silence of nature, which filled me with bliss. It gave me the feeling of being one with the whole. God is always ready to give, but we are not ready to receiveit. We are not open, silent and empty enough to receive it. We are so full of thoughts, desires, memories and dreams that there is no room within us. This room has to be created. That is the art of meditation. And then you will start dancing with God.”

“Одно отличает людей такого рода: это ненасытные люди-губки, которые се легко впитывают и так же легко с этим расстаются. В них ничто надолго не задерживается, а поскольку природа не терпит пустоты, им постоянно нужно что-то новое, они постоянно должны что-то впитывать, добавлять, множить, увеличивать.”