Investigating the philosophical and religious roots of meditation

Meditation means deep thinking or focusing one’s attention on only one thing. In modern psychology, meditation is a practice to achieve a relaxed state of mind. Meditation is of two types, (a) nonfaith-based Meditation, and (b) faith-based Meditation. The faith-based meditation is part of faith and spirituality of every religion. We have described a brief historical account of faith and spirituality of different religions in this paper to assess which is the best course of meditation in the light of the historical facts. This paper is divided into four sections, (1) A brief description of nonfaith-based meditation, (2) Historical account of different faiths in the world, (3) A brief description of spirituality, and (4) Meditational practices of different religions in the world. We hope it will help our readers to find the most authentic meditational practice which is beneficial to them physically and spiritually.