Question: What are some of the signs of successful practice of dhyana?

Babaji:

You become more introvert and peaceful. You are able to appreciate peace and tranquillity. In the beginning, after you achieve concentration, after some advancement in meditation, you are likely to experience your blissful nature. This bliss increases and finally goes to the Supreme blissful nature. But you have to wait and carry on.  Go beyond this, achieve total peace finally. Because peace is the recommended goal. Peace is your abode and you, yourself, are the abode of peace, are the form of peace. You are that total peace and supreme peace, consciously existing. One shall experience bliss enormously before achieving peace. Bliss is not the goal. When you are in total blissful nature, you are likely to become excited and in the process the mind jumps back to the world. It’s likely to experience the jumpings, and it will come back to the existence. So it is essential you hold on to the sadhana even if you are experiencing bliss. During blissful natures, you are likely to experience trembling, excitement. You might feel like dancing. You might feel like opening your eyes and laughing and so many things. You might feel like going into trance, also. But this is not the recommended goal. You have to wait. You have to become peaceful, serene, composed, introvert. Peace is the recommended goal. Your mind’s imagination has to decrease, decrease, and totally vanish. Thereby, it has to surrender to the Divine Guru. Actual surrender takes place only when your imagination stops, when the mind recedes. Thus the mind learns to remain in God Consciousness and becomes single pointed, the advaita, non-duality. It settles down to the Self peacefully.