What does one understand by meditation? According to the dictionary, meditation is the same as contemplation or deep reflection. Meditating is defined as pondering and contemplating. In daily life contemplating and pondering over something in order to make it clear is naturally a very good thing – indeed, it is absolutely essential. People who in their daily lives act without thinking over their ways of acting, so that they can be logical, will naturally lag behind, being unable to keep up with life, therefore easily experiencing difficult problems or, in the worst instances, catastrophes. We therefore see that the world is full of meditation. A vast amount of thinking, pondering and research occurs almost everywhere. It is this thinking that has given birth to materialistic science. This science has bestowed enormous benefits on mankind: high-speed means of transport, machines for doing many sorts of both heavy and light work – indeed, even machines to help with mental work, major calculations and the like. Things that in ancient times took months and years to carry out are in our time carried out in days and hours. Nowadays this development is vigorously accelerating. It is going faster and faster.