THINKING ABOUT GOD VERSUS MEDITATING ON GOD

Thinking about God gradually leads a person to meditation, even as they are two different mind functions. Thinking involves the analytical, discriminating mind, whereas the meditating mind is the intuitive mind. 

For the thinking mind, God is an object, a thing.  For the meditating mind, God is a feeling, an impression.  For the thinking mind, God is a location.  For the meditating mind, God has no location.

Meditation is the state where the mind flows continuously toward God.   There is a consciousness, an awareness of the presence of God in meditation.  In Vedanta, meditation is next to Samadhi, the superconscious state where Brahman, the ultimate Reality, is experienced.  Brahman is God.

In the words of the Bhagavad-Gita, “The light of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place,” meaning that when through meditation the mind ceases its restless movements and becomes still, Brahman, God, is realized.