1)-The best sign of your progressing in your meditation is something which is very self-evident.

Nobody has to
tell you whats happening. First is the experience of great bliss; the second is the actual experience of your
Being. Not just a little thing but a through-out expansion of (the) Being in all ways not merely a physical
expansion. Its an expansion in all forms, in all ways

2)-So, when I sit alone, I am disturbed by various thoughts because most other people are thinking about
something else. They are thinking about the world; they are thinking about different things so I find it difficult
to meditate. But, when ten people are meditating together or thinking about the same subject, then I find it easier
to meditate, because all thoughts are joining together. This is the meaning of a Satsang.

3)-Viveka means intelligence reasoning and trying to understand, what is permanent, and what is not
permanent. And Vichara is thinking about it if this is not permanent, then what is permanent? Or to put it in
an extreme form is there anything permanent at all?

4)-The Mahanirvana Tantra says, Anantam Anandam Brahma, which means that Anandam which has no
Antah, no end, is Brahman. And that comes about only when the thoughts have ceased, which means, the whole
process of thinking has ceased, which is not unconsciousness.

5)-In Vedanta, what the Vedantist does, is to examine the world around him and find out that it is impermanent.
He says, This world is impermanent because today its here and tomorrow it is gone. All the joys that I have are
bound to disappear when I die. Nothing is permanent because anything that is born is bound to die. So, this is not
the Truth, because the Truth has to be something that remains always, has no tinge of sorrow in It. This process
is what is called, Neti, Neti. This is not the Truth; this is not the Truth; this is not the Truth. Thus he negates.

6)-Have you opened your window and by accident, suddenly noticed a full moon a beautiful night and for a
few seconds, you forget everything except the moon? You did not exist for the time being, those few seconds,
only the beauty of the moon was there. Now this is actually a form of Vedantic Meditation.

7)-Sometimes, what you think is misfortune is fortune which comes in the garb of misfortune. Only then, you
begin to think seriously, Where am I going? What am I doing? So, thats another reason why people begin to
meditate. When such things happen, then people begin to meditate, question, think, contemplate, because they
have seen the emptiness of life.

8)-When Im enjoying something, even then there is a hidden element of unhappiness there, because Im afraid
that the thing which I am enjoying might go off at any moment. If I have common sense, I must know this that I
cant always enjoy the whole thing, all the time. It will go, at some time. So, the moment I enjoy, there is already
a hidden feeling of holding on to it, because it might slip off. That itself is unhappiness, you see. So, in happiness
itself, there is a small element of this.