” The meaning of meditation is to go within yourselves, right inside of you. Those who love God, that love takes them within. In some ashrams like Madurai and Pondicherry, there are actual meditation classes. But meditation has never yet made a person one with God. Hafez said to the Sufis, ‘If you have the whim to achieve union with God, become as the dust at the feet of one who has become united with him.

Sufis do not give a damn for meditation. They love. Meditation is good. If you love and meditate, there is no harm. If you love and do not meditate, there is no harm. But don’t meditate as if you have taken quinine powder. Meaning that it is something to somehow or other be done with and gotten over. If you are interested in meditation, you ought to do it with joy. If you do not like meditation, then you have to take my name. And if you love me, taking my name ought to give you joy. Do it when and where you like. “

~ Meher Baba   

8 September 1940, Meherabad to his women disciples, LM7 p2608-2609