How do you meditate on your own Self when you don’t know your own Self? In one way, it’s kind of like you lived in a cave your whole life and I tried to teach you to meditate on the sun or the moon. You wouldn’t know what they are. This is why the mantra names your own Self..
— Gurudevi Nirmalananda
From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Meditating on Your Own Self“