A little paean to meditation

Beautiful expression from a lifelong meditator:

Trying and struggling to achieve a level of meditation always brings the opposite results. One cannot fall asleep beating a drum and shouting to one-self repeatedly, "I am determined to sleep."

The states of consciousness can be changed only very gently. 

Let meditation seep through you like water into a rock, like the sound of a falling rose petal, like a baby's finger growing invisibly, like the sun's ray sipping a drop of water.

There are no dramatic manifestations, just a slow and graduating transformation.

- Pt. Usharbudh Arya (Sw. Veda Bharati), Superconscious Meditation, Himalayan Institute Press