Acharya Ji, why don’t you suggest meditation techniques?

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, why don’t you suggest meditation techniques?

Acharya Prashant (AP): When you were in the Ganga, were you querying about what water is? The fish asked the ocean, “So when am I going to be schooled about water?”

Since four days, what else have you done except meditation? But you have images of meditation, right? Somebody with his head buried in the sand and legs trying to shoot down the sky, that is meditation?

You are meditative right now. If the fish feels that she does not know water, then she suffers a punishment. The punishment is that she comes out of the water to search for water. If you will not know that this is meditation, then you will break out of this and go into non-meditation.

To look into your life, to be honest about your experiences, what else is meditation?

But this meditation is dangerous because it doesn’t spare any corner of your existence. You have to be continuously watchful, you have to look at everything and everybody. So, this meditation is a very inclusive meditation. This meditation is a very continuous meditation. You don’t even want to call it meditation because it will consume your…