1st February, 1936

Talk 152.

Mrs. Kelly desired to know how she should best learn to meditate. Sri Bhagavan asked if she had made japa ^[?] (rolling beads as Roman Catholics do). She said: "No".
M.: Have you thought of God, His qualities, etc.?
D.: I have read, talked, etc. about such themes.
M.: Well, if the same be revolved in the mind without open expression through the senses it is meditation.

D.: I mean meditation as signified in The Secret Path and Who am I??
M.: Long for it intensely so that the mind melts in devotion. After the camphor burns away no residue is left. The mind is the camphor; when it has resolved itself into the Self without leaving even the slightest trace behind, it is Realisation of the Self.