Meditation is a very general word

"Meditation is a very general word. It is not a word that explains
all the three steps one has to take for meditating. But in Sanskrit
language they have very clearly said, how you have to move in your
meditation.

First is called as Dhyana, and second is called as Dhaarna; and the
third is called Samadhi. Luckily Sahaja Yoga is such a thing that you
get everything in a bundle. You avoided everything else and you got
the Samadhi part. That's the beauty of it. The first part of
meditation is the Dhyana. First when you have seeking, you put your
attention towards the object of your worship. That is called as
Dhyana. And the Dhaarana is the one in which you put all your effort.
Concentrate all your effort. But this is all drama for people who are
not realised. For them it's just a sort of an acting that they do.
But for a realised soul it is a reality. So the first, the Dhyana,
you have to do. Some do it of the Form, another of the Formless. But
you are so fortunate that the Formless has become a Form for you. No
problem, you don't have to go from Form to Formless, from Formless to
form; it's all there, in a bundle. So you concentrate, or think of
some Deity, or some point for Nirakar, for the Formless, or of
Nirakar itself."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi,
January 1984