How would I know that I am doing meditation correctly?
Q : Respected Gurumaa,
I am practicing meditation for over ten years, however, my progress is very little. How to know that I am going in right direction?
Dinesh Sharma
Answer Well Dinesh, when you eat food, how do you come to know that now you are full and you need not eat more? Who teaches you that? what is the sign? You can say that I have burped. Well, the burp can be also because there was too much wind in your stomach.
How does one know that one has eaten as much it was needed to end? This is the time to stop eating food you just know it. Sometimes, you get satiated with one slice of bread and may be another day even after eating three, you feel like that I need to eat something more and when you eat your food until the points come where you know it that now I don't need to eat.
How do you know that now you are thirsty and I should drink something and then how do you know that now my thirst is gone? Similarly, your meditation comes along with so many signs & symptoms that you need not to ask anyone. You know it, you can't miss it if real meditation has happens to you.
For your benefit, I can list few things for example, now you don't get perturbed, now you don't get frustrated, now you don't get angry that quickly even if anger come it goes like whiff of wind. Now your heart doesn't pine for things, now you hug even your enemies, now let go off your friends without tears in your eyes. Now the death doesn't scare you if these signs are coming in, there meaning that you are in right path and real progress is happening.
And if these are not coming…..these are few signs which I have said. There are too many others that I would suggest. Do listen to the commentary which I have done on Bhagwat Gita where Sri Krishna has wonderfully, magnificently explained what are the sign and symptoms of a “Sthit-Pragya” , the one who is enlightened, the one who is awakened.
Gurumaa
