Signs of Progress in Meditation

Meditation: Signs of Progress

The true signs of progress in meditation are: an increasing peacefulness during meditation, a conscious inner experience of calmness metamorphosing into increasing bliss, a deepening of one's understanding and finding answers through the calm intuitive state of inner perception, an increasing mental and physical efficiency in daily life, and love for meditation and the desire to hold on to the peace and joy of the meditative state.

Meditation: A Human Endeavor

As the journey of one's existence progresses, one finds by deeper insight into the soul that the quest of life is "Who am I; why am I here?" Superior intelligence was not given to the human being merely to eat, marry and beget children. It was given that man might understand the meaning of life and find soul-freedom.

Meditation Originating In India

India has shown the way to divine communion with God through the right methods of meditation. God contact becomes possible when by meditation one has attained mastery over the restlessness of the mind. One cannot meditate with uncontrolled thoughts running in every direction.

Author: Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952). First Published in the Self Realization Magazine, Spring, 1992, pg 1. To learn more about the meditation that Yogananda taught: go to https://yogananda.org for the Self-realization Fellowship. IMHU offers a brief course on the best meditations for wellbeing: https://courses.imhu.org/courses/best-meditations-for-wellbeing