Mind - Its true value depends on its surrender to the Divine.

MENTAL

The "Mind" in the ordinary use of the word covers indiscriminately the whole consciousness, for man is a mental being and mentalises everything; but in the language of this yoga the words "mind" and "mental" are used to connote specially the part of the nature which has to do with cognition and intelligence, with ideas, with mental or thought perceptions, the reactions of thought to things, with the truly mental movements and formations, mental vision and will, etc., that are part of his intelligence.

SRI AUROBINDO

Mind Its true value depends on its surrender to the Divine.


Thevetia peruviana - Yellow oleander, Be-still tree, Lucky nut
Medium-sized fragrant yellow narrow funnel- shaped flower with swirled petals; borne in few-flowered cymes. A large shrub or small tree with glossy linear lanceolate leaves and highly poisonous fruits.

Photo Courtesy: Bernard Loison

I wish you consider I´m a student of the Truth so I´m not making any claim other then this. My questioning about meditation and its meaning reflect my interest, as for searching after the Truth, I believe I need to understand what meditation is.
As many of us, I´ve been searching about the meaning of meditation in different traditions, and came to the conclusion that I needed a kind of integrative attitude, because something said by a certain doctrine seemed to me rather complementary to that of another one, but none contained the whole which even, seemed to be "progressive" and not static, as by clarifying explications from Sri Aurobindo.
In fact Lele, which first teach meditation to Sri A., was later scandalized and spoke of "things of the devil" when he knew the Master, contravening his injunction to meditate regularly at fixed hours every day  had had the "occurrence" to make of meditation something extended the day long (including physical activity etc.).
So, tradition said to sit for meditation, but Sri Aurobindo had a different point of view, and I found the need to investigate in this direction. Evidently that do not means sitting in meditation is not good, it is good while sitting, but it should be good while walking, or thinking, or whatever, because that would means the Self in Life, in actual, everyday life.
What I´ve been putting in my posts about meditation is simply the result of my observation and "experiments" in this field, and one may take it or not, but should be considered genuine results of objective investigation and not an attempt to claim authority as on my opinion, the very concept of authority has to be discarded.
Moral or spiritual authority in the field of self-discovery may be a pretty harmful thing,
as in this field what one is meant is to allow manifest one´s own Self.
That represent the final mastery of this process we call meditation which is the aim  of all the authentic spiritual paths, either discovered or to be discovered, as never doubt, not all has been said of the innumerable ways of expression of that Self.