When YOU are meditating, you are not; when you are NOT meditating, you are in meditation.
Any gesture, any act done with an awareness of “I,” becomes mind-driven, and the mind cannot connect you with the consciousness.
Meditation is resting ( of the mind ), non-doing.
A frustrated mind only looks for a solution in meditation, not God.
Only a happy mind, with no immediate problems to fix, will connect.
Why?
Because the nature of consciousness is that of a joyful expansion ( Sat-chit-Anand ).
The one who succeeds in meditation is the one who is in a state of curious exploration of their inner world.
Meditation is not a tool for achieving anything.
It is the path of seeking THE TRUTH in your quiet inner self.
And THE TRUTH brings the ultimate freedom and ultimate joy.
Instead of saying “ I am meditating”, ask yourself, “Who is meditating?”