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=What is Meditation? =
Meditation means thinking on one subject in a concentrated way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p2,P3,P4,P5</ref>
==What is the Object of Meditation?==
It is not the length of the meditation that makes the difference [in making one vitally and physically strong]. It is a concentration of the will that is needed.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p73</ref>
==Dynamic Meditation==
It is not meditation (thinking with the mind) but a concentration or turning of the consciousness that is important,—and that can happen in work, in writing, in any kind of action as well as in sitting down to contemplate.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/combining-work-meditation-and-bhakti#p24</ref>
It is a meditation that has the power of transforming one’s being. It is a meditation which makes you progress, as opposed to static meditation which is immobile and relatively inert, and which changes nothing in your consciousness or in your way of being. A dynamic meditation is a meditation of transformation.
If one wants the meditation to be dynamic, one must have an aspiration for progress and the meditation must be done to help and fulfil this aspiration for progress. Then it becomes dynamic. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/14-march-1956#p4,12</ref>
==Meditation and Concentration==
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-july-1956#p37</ref>
When one is trying to understand a problem which comes up, a psychological problem or a circumstantial one, and he sits down and looks at and sees all the possibilities, compares them, studies them, this is a form of meditation; and one does it spontaneously when the thing comes up. When one is facing a decision to be taken, for instance, and doesn't know which one to take, well, ordinarily one reflects, consults his reason, compares all the possibilities and makes his choice... more or less. Well, this is a form of meditation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/24-august-1955#p11,12</ref><ref>word.in/cwm/0
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