There are two roads to fulfilment, ‘Prartana and Dhyana (Prayer and Meditation)’. Prayer makes you a supplicant at the feet of God; Meditation induces God to come down to you and inspires you to raise yourselves to Him. It tends to make you come together, not place one on a lower level and the other on a higher. Dhyana is the royal road to liberation from bondage, though by prayer too you earn the same fruit. Meditation needs concentration, after controlling the claims of senses. You must picture before your inner eye the Form on which you elect to contemplate. Or, you can elect to meditate on a flame, a steady straight flame of light. Picture it as spreading on all sides, becoming bigger and bigger; enveloping all and growing in you, until there is nothing else except light. In the glory of that all-enveloping Light, all hate and envy, which are the evil progeny of darkness, will vanish. Know that the same light is in all. Even he, whom you were treating as your worst rival, has the selfsame light in his innermost heart! – Divine Discourse, Jan 22, 1967