How to know that one is meditating rightly?

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

Questioner (Q): How does one know that she is meditating rightly? Secondly, I know that one should not be dependent on others and one’s happiness should always come from within. Yet, my emotions erupt and I react due to the actions of the other person. So, how to stay detached from everything and stay unshaken in any situation?

Acharya Prashant (AP): (referring to the first question) Life is the only and ultimate proof. If your meditation is right then your life will be right. And if your life is right then rest assured that knowingly, unknowingly, effortfully, effortlessly, you are meditating right.

Meditation the event, mediation the process is a means. It is meant to give you a glimpse of what freedom is like. That glimpse has to then be nurtured. One has to fall in love with that glimpse. One has to say that one loves it so much that it is needed in all hours of life. If that which comes to you in meditation does not remain with you continuously and throughout, then meditation is not only not successful but also dangerously counter-productive.

We will have to understand that the peace experienced during a process of meditation is dualistic peace. Because you remain stressed and restless and filled up with…