~~OM~~

In prayer, we speak out our heart to God; in meditation, He expresses His Heart to us. Sincere one-pointed prayer purifies the heart, which enables us to experience Her Divine Presence is Meditation. In Prayer there are two; we are able to look into the eyes of our beloved and say, "i love You", sing Her praises, etc. In deep Meditation, we merge with Her and there is only one.

~~Muktimaa

Prayer feels like a conversation with God. Meditation feels like being God.

~~forall10

To me, prayer is a device our Divine Mother has designed to draw us into meditation.

~~Henny

We meditate to determine our objective, and then pray to manifest our objective in order to reach our supreme goal.

~~George

Prayer is when I am asking for something and meditation is when I listen.

~~Mahamuni

In prayer, she is coming home, entering the doorway. In meditation, her mind wants to drift away. Prayer is the anchor, dropping mind into God's heart. Bhav is the arrow, straight from her heart, to God's heart. Prayer keeps her jnan from wavering.

~~Steve

Sometimes prayer is giving thanks; sometimes it is asking; sometimes it is crying out for God/Goddess as a child would for his/her Mother/Father. Prayer is answering the call that echoes to us from the Cave of the Heart. Meditation is entering that Cave where there is nothing but God/Goddess.

~~Linda

Prayer implies duality; the individual is praying to the Supreme for beneficial intervention to help meet (manifest) a goal. The goal could be either material or spiritual; if it is the highest spiritual goal, then its success will probably bring it to the same state as meditation. Meditation is exclusively spiritual in nature. It attempts at removing the duality.

~~Manoj

In prayer, we ask. At times prayer can contain some element of selfishness as we pray for our needs/wants to be met and then forget Divinity until "the next time". Meditation comes out of a deep longing for God, to know God, to see God, to be one with God. Meditation is deep concentration on the Divine, looking inward, listening and acting with faith.

~~Kaliananda

The Mother was Prayer and the Master was Meditation. One day, Mother and Master were married. As they deepened in wisdom together, their love became such that they forgot their own names. Whenever one calls out for the other, even by his or her name, the partner appears, without confusion or doubt.

~~Steve

Meditation is sitting in the Stillness of God while prayer is an action with the objective of manifesting God. While meditating we are simply be-ing, without desire, knowing ourselves to be One with All Life. If we are able to come to prayer from this place of Oneness, and the knowledge that God is manifesting in all that we do, we can see prayer as that Oneness moving through us, into the world of form; creating, transforming, and destroying, allowing Maa to do Her work using us as Her tools.

As Shree Maa told us some time ago, a life of prayer is how we say thank you to the world for allowing us to be here. Through the good that is working its way through us we become that which She wants to create in the world.

~~Morningsong

Prayer is the invocation of divinity into ourselves, which may then be followed by subsequent manifestation through our personal interface outward to the world around us. Thus prayer can become quite dynamic.

Meditation can be an installation of ourselves into the realm of the sacred. For me meditation is the placement of mind into the Kutasta where thoughts wilt and die. Meditation is the place where contiguous thought becomes discontiguous. Meditation is the place where mind dissolves into “no mind”. Meditation is the process by which mind gives way to reflective knowing. Meditation is where thought crumbles into being.

~~Rudran