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"Our dear lotus-eyed Lord, You are the source of pure goodness. There are many great sages who simply by samadhi, or transcendentally meditating upon Your lotus feet and thus being absorbed in Your thought, have easily transformed the great ocean of nescience created by the material nature to no more than water in a calf's hoofprint." The purpose of meditation is to focus the mind upon the Personality of Godhead, beginning from His lotus feet. Simply by meditation on the lotus feet of the Lord, great sages cross over this vast ocean of material existence without difficulty.

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Without the help of meditation,
you cannot attain Knowledge of the Self.
Without its aid, you cannot grow
into the divine state.
Without it, you cannot liberate yourself
from the trammels of the mind
and attain immortality.

Meditation is the only royal road
to the attainment of freedom.

It is a mysterious ladder wich reaches
from earth to heaven, from error to truth,
from darkness to light, from pain to bliss,
from restlessness to abiding peace,
from ignorance to knowledge.
From mortality to immortality.

--Swami Sivananda
Bliss Divine
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