Pomp and pride have to be given up to experience the Divine. People talk about meditation, but how much of it is concentrated on God? Nor is formal meditation necessary when you realize that the Divine is within you. The purpose of meditation is to recognize one's unity with God. This realization can come only when one removes the three-layered cloak that covers the Atma in the form of the three Gunas (influences) : Thamas, Rajas and Sathva.
(Sanathana Sarathi, December 1995, pg 321)
