The article deals with the suggestive nature of nominations of meditative texts. The lexical units as a part of meditative texts nominations are considered. The basic linguistic methods that form the suggestive potential of meditative texts are found out. The analysis is carried out with the use of explanatory and associative dictionaries.

There is considered the meditation in the theory of discourse. There are characterized the following criteria: chronotop, participants of the discourse, intention, perception channels. There is determined the place of the meditative discourse in the typology of discourse: personal - existential. There is marked out and described the specificity of chronotop (length and place of meditation) and the participants of the meditative discourse (real: master of meditation and the meditating/unreal).