Question: When you talk about the meditation being successful, for me, when I meditate every day, it is successful when I connect to the world around me afterwards, when it has an impact on this very day that I'm meditating. Sometimes it happens, but I don't know what the mechanism is, why sometimes you have this feeling of connection to everything around you, and your day just goes really well, and everything is just very easy.

Babaji:

You see, in this world, when you live, when you put in efforts, you may have some expectations. The mind always puts in an effort with some expectations. Without an expectation, it does not put in any work at all; nobody would like to work. This is the habit of the mind. However, there is no such universal law or guarantee in this world, that all your expectations shall come true as you expect only.

You might be putting in very good effort sometimes, but the result may not come according to your expectations. If it does not happen according to its expectations, mind gets disappointed. It can go into frustration and disappointment, all such things. If it happens according to its expectations, then it is very good. The whole day passes beautifully. As long as everything goes on happening according to your expectations, this world appears so beautiful and so wonderful. You don't want God, you don't want anybody else. But the day it starts happening negatively, then it becomes torturous to the mind, mind does not accept. So the practice of this meditation can enable you, whether anything happens or not, your mind becomes able to accept the things as it happens, accept the things as it comes. Sometimes you may expect 10 million dollars, sometimes it may come only 10 dollars, but still the mind would have that satisfaction. When you have satisfaction, everything appears surplus.

So this is the trick of the mind. This meditation neutralizes the mind's effect. You see, otherwise the mind does not stay in the presence at all. Either it is brooding about the past, or is anxious about the future. So that is why this meditation is taught. Even if you do a little bit, half an hour or one hour also, sincerely and practice the proper technique, then at all times your mind shall remain in peace, happiness. Whether anything happens in this world for you; good, bad, right or wrong, mind is able to take. So that is why this is recommended, so that it can keep your mental energies intact.