Course III - Teaching 4: Meditation

First we should explain the meaning of meditation, exercises of meditation, prayer, orison and entreaty.
The exercise of meditation is not an entreaty or request for oneself and for another person; it is an exercise of the mind. One thing is to entreat and another thing altogether is to meditate.
Meditation is a state or disposition of the soul.
Meditation is stability in a state of consciousness, in contrast to the usual variability.
The exercise of meditation is the mean tending to achieve this state, to make it more and more permanent, and to attain the simple state by gradual simplification.
Prayers are a particular mode of the meditation exercise.
Man is a compound if emotions, thoughts, ideas and sensations.
You need varied exercises to effectively act on every aspect and achieve a unique, precise and integral end.
Prayers, entreaties, vocalized prayers, and both discursive and affective meditation act on the emotional plane.
Affective meditation also acts on the comprehensive and ideational plane by the force of feeling. It does not create or discover; it works.
Exercise inside exercise cannot solve a vital problem. Life is solved in life; a mental or emotional problem is only the reflection of a problem. Exercise only leads to the point that unleashes a vital definition. A mental schema is not a solution, is a schema.
He who did not solve his fundamental problem has problems; he who has solved his life has tasks.
Confusion between what is an exercise and what is a mystic state produces disorientation as to the practice of the exercise of meditation.
The exercise unleashes sensible forces that turned on the chosen ideal cause a sensation of a greater union with God. The very act of internally setting oneself in the presence of the Divine Mother is already a partial state of union. But since the exercise of meditation is also a mystic exercise, difficulties of the exercise are mistaken for inner problems disconnected from the exercise of meditation.
Of course, sensible states produced during the exercise never are true mystique, but in most cases they are paramount moments in the life of the souls that take them as guides who indicate their progress and spiritual level.
True meditation never discontinues, like life, what should be spiritual life. But meditation is mistaken for the exercise, and exercise certainly is discontinued forcefully. So you have two different and opposite states of consciousness: the first, in the circle of exercise of meditation, could be called consciousness of the soul; the second, when the exercise ends and ordinary daily life begins.
These circles collide and fight one other.
The power of the Great Current keeps this inner fight alive. The Son fights not against external factors but against himself. Here is the virtue of Cafh: to unleash the internal conflict, which the Son calls spiritual life, struggle, efforts and realization; it is force transmutation. Change gives a sensation of achievement.
Exercises that are taught, particularly the exercise of meditation, keeps this struggle alive and fruitful.
The Son’s technique consists in knowing and creating by himself those conscious and unconscious stimuli that sustain and accelerate the rhythm of his spiritual life.