Paramatma (Supreme Divinity) has six chief characteristics: Supreme wisdom, complete renunciation, divine beauty, fullest splendour of power, undiminished fame, and inexhaustible fortune. Its nature is Sat (existence), Chit (knowledge) and Ananda (bliss). These are also related to man through the Atma in him. So all humanity has a right to realize and enjoy these characteristics and this exalted nature. It is the ordained duty. The travails of the world today are due to man not performing this ordained duty.

The wave-like movement of proceeding and receding, of merging and emerging has been happening since time immemorial; it will happen till Time ends; it is eternal in its feature—this is the belief of Bharathiyas. A human being is not just this gross body; in it, there is a subtle component called mind; inside it, as its prompter and spring, there is an even more subtle principle called the Jivatma (individualized soul). This Jivatma has neither beginning nor end; it has no birth, it knows no death. This is the basis of the Bharathiya faith.

There are three stages of Sadhana (spiritual practice). They are concentration, contemplation and meditation. When you fix your gaze on one form, it is concentration. When this form physically moves away after sometime, you still look at this form with your mental eye. That is contemplation. As a result of this exercise, this form gets imprinted in your heart permanently. That is meditation. If you go on meditating thus, the form remains in your heart permanently. You should not confine your spiritual practices to concentration and contemplation only. While it is true that these are the first steps in your spiritual practices, you must progress further. You must transform concentration to contemplation and later into meditation. When you transform thus, you will continue to visualize the form of God at all times. The ancient Rishis (seers) adopted this form of meditation. That is why God manifested before them whenever they wished, talked to them and fulfilled their desires.

Each electric bulb has a separate wattage, and the wattage remains for a limited period of a time. Avatars are like these electric bulbs. Over a period, God has incarnated as several Avatars. You must be attached, NOT to the physical form of a particular Avatar, but to DIVINITY as the Supreme Parabrahma beyond form and attributes, which has manifested many times in many ages. Though you were born as a baby, you grow up as a child, youth, and become an elderly person; you are the same individual in all the different stages. You must, therefore, constantly meditate upon the Divine, which is true and eternal.

To describe anything in words is difficult; it might even cause boredom. But to demonstrate it by deed is easier and more pleasant! Through meditation, spiritual aspirants are able to cast off sheaths of ignorance, layer after layer. They withdraw their sense perceptions from contact with worldly experiences. The process that aims at this holy consummation alone deserves to be called meditation. For this process, you must be equipped with good habits, discipline, and high ideals. You must be full of renunciation towards worldly things and their attractions. Whatever the situation, you should conduct yourself with enthusiasm and joy. Whatever is done must be dedicated not to eke out a livelihood but for earning Atmic bliss (Atma-ananda). You should train yourself to adopt a good sitting pose (Asana) to avoid tension of the body, and to ease the mind from the weight and pressure of the body. If you thus truly meditate, you will achieve oneness with the Divine and experience the joy of realizing the Atma within yourself.