“Meditation is a method, more or less scientific (depending on the meditation), for bringing the man or woman in incarnation into contact and eventual at-one-ment with the Higher Self or soul.
The time has passed for meditating alone, getting on with one’s personal spiritual salvation, without at the same time accepting the need, the duty of service. The nature of the soul is to serve. So, what is the point, as a meditator, of spending all that time and effort getting into touch with the soul and not carrying out its purpose? The soul is carrying out the Plan of the Logos. It is a great sacrifice for the soul to do so because it is so limited at this physical level. It gains experience at this level, but the true reason behind the incarnating process is the carrying out of the Will of the Logos through the sacrificial decision of the soul itself.
When the soul pours its energy into the vehicles—physical, emotional/astral and mental—these vehicles are stimulated; the soul seeks to grip the personality and turn it into a reflection of itself. The personality senses this and resists. Then there follows several lives of a long, drawn-out battle between the soul and personality with its powerful desire nature.
The soul inevitably wins because it is a higher agency; its energy is stronger and the law of evolution is working behind it. Eventually it turns the personality into a reflection of itself. But it can only do so when the personality gives in and begins to reflect the quality of the soul. Then the spiritual Will, the spiritual Love, and the Higher mental nature can reflect through the personality, and the man or wonan becomes a living soul.
All those who have engaged in meditation will have been engaged,whether they know it or not, in aligning the physical brain with the soul, the personality vehicle with the Higher Self. That is what meditation is for.
When we meditate and do not use the soul energy in purposeful service, the result is always some disturbance of the equilibrium of the energies in the etheric body. The centres get blocked; the result is inevitably neurosis or physical plane illness of some kind. This is why you find so many more advanced people rather neurotic. They dam up the energy coming to them from the soul level. They do this by not using that energy in service. They use it selfishly—in other words, they misuse it. It is a stage we all go through and there is no comdemnation involved. The way to avoid neurosis is to use soul energy correctly. It is the most efffective way to avoid neurosis and other illnesses, apart from those, of course, which are karmic and from our past.”
(From a dedicated disciple)
REFLECTIONS 