The mind suffers from a false sense of values and tries to discard what is good for it. The child must be educated to appreciate hard, chewable food which it does not welcome in the beginning. So too, the mind must be trained to picture the vast, limitless, overwhelming majesty that underlies time, space and causation. First, it must develop a taste for the Personal God and later for the Impersonal, without a name and a form. All names and forms to the Impersonal God are attributed by the mind. Bhajan, dhyan, Namasmarana, Nagarasankeertan – all these are steps in that education. The bliss that’s won by mergence in the Divine, is the consummation. A sick person must swallow the cough syrup himself, so long as he is ill, however bitter the medicine may be! A person, ill with ignorance and therefore suffering from egoism and discontent, must take the medicine of japa-dhyana (repetition of the name and meditation). The disease of over-attachment to worldly objects can be cured only by the drug of attachment to God, cultivated through japa and dhyana. – Divine Discourse, Nov 22, 1970