Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa disclosed some of the meditations he had learned from his teacher of Vedanta, Totapuri:
Nangta [Tota Puri] used to tell me
how a jnani meditates: Everywhere there is water; all the regions above
and below are filled with water; man, like a fish, is swimming joyously
in that water. In
real meditation you will
actually see all this.
Take the case of the infinite
ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in
it: there is water both inside and outside the pot. The jnani sees that
both inside and outside there is
nothing but Paramatman. Then
what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’. Because of the
pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot
you seem to perceive an inside and an
outside. One feels that way as
long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains.
That cannot be described in
words.
Do you know another way a jnani
meditates? Think of infinite akasha and a bird flying there, joyfully
spreading its wings. There is the Chidakasha and Atman is the bird. The
bird is not imprisoned in a
cage; it flies in the Chidakasha.
Its joy is limitless.