Which method of meditation is correct?

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

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, I have a question on these four commonly quoted methods- Sāma, Dāma, Daṇḍ, and Bheda. I applied Sāma but it’s not working. The other three I know nothing about, and are not working. No method seems to work. What to do?

Acharya Prashant (AP): There are an infinite variety of methods, and all methods are available to you. Intelligence naturally knows the methods to apply. It’s just that conditioning prevents you from applying methods. You take some methods as right, wrong, moral, immoral, applicable, inapplicable. Whereas, the rightness of any method in The Spiritual domain is decided only by its ability to deliver the goods.

If something takes you to the Truth, it cannot be evil. But, because we have no affinity for the Truth, no longing for the Truth, so we start thinking too much about the method. You have to go to meet your beloved, and you missed the flight and now you have to travel in the general compartment of a train. Would you mind it too much? It depends actually; it depends on your relationship with your beloved. If you are really hungry to meet, then it won’t matter how you are traveling. The method, the vehicle, would be of very little importance and if you are absolutely bonkers, totally crazy, you may…