Meditation means awareness.

Meditation means being aware of my capacity to know. Meditation means exploiting my capacity to know to its fullest capacity so that no part of it remains potent, no part remains in the seed form. Whatever capacity to know is within me should not remain potential, but it should become actual. So, when a person awakens, in that moment he is, in his full capacity.

Both the things happen simultaneously. Just as a tree lies hidden in a seed, but it is only potentially there. There is the possibility, but only a possibility. Then the seed becomes a tree, this too is a state of the seed only – expressed, manifested. The seed is the un-manifest state of the tree, and the tree is the manifest state of the seed. Then who travels between the seed and the tree? Who was there in the seed as well as in the tree? It can neither be the seed nor the tree. It is the third – the life force.

Awake and asleep are two conditions, just as tree and seed are two conditions. That which travels between them is called meditation. This life force is the third element. Hence, the more meditative you are the more you are awake (conscious); and the less meditative you are the more you are asleep (unconscious). You are fully alive in only the moment in which you are fully awake.