How do I tell when/if I am in a meditative state?

Question

I recently began meditation practices/study about a month ago, and I was just wondering how one can tell if they are actually in a meditative state? I usually utilize mantra repitition or contemplation, and I do feel different afterwards, but in my study it seems that there is an actual "state" one enters while meditating. Also, once there, can one cease their mantra or whatever they were using to achieve the state?

Answer 1

go to this website.
it will tell you how to check yourself in each level of meditation.

http://www.11meditation.co.nr

Answer 2

Persons who are advanced in meditation practice and spend a lot of time in meditation sometimes experience states of "total absorption" which seem like a cross between deep sleep and pure awareness (awareness of nothing "other"). Normal awareness is sensorial and dualistic; when subconscious content becomes attenuated through the meditative process and when the mind becomes so quiet and absorbed that the sense of "other" is purged, then there is nothing to experience but a pure awareness or witness state. This has been discussed in the Upanishads such as passages in the Brihadayanyaka Upanishad, the in Advaita Vedantist texts, and in certain Buddhist texts such as the Prajnapramita Hridaya Sutra. I have experienced the state you describe both in meditation and also have entered into absorbed meditative states while sleeping and they feel different from sleep. A meditator needs to distinguish between these states of absorption and dullness and sleep. The experience is qualitatively different. To answer your question, this state is a lesser-type state of pure awareness and absorption. Adepts speak of another state in which awareness shines more fully but, still, there is only awareness, not awareness of "other."

Answer 3

Yea I used to wonder about that too, but it really comes naturally with practice. It's something you can even experience to some extent when you're not meditating, after a while. Probably the best way to describe what I feel is absorption in the object of my devotion or concentration.

Answer 4

Thats a great work if you are doing meditative work every day, because it give peace in your mind, i also do meditation sometimes.

and your question about tell when you are in meditation state i think about it only astrologers can say you, you can find them at http://www.sarnam.com/

Answer 5

Constantly, incessantly chant this mahä-mantra—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Räma, Hare Hare. And you will be in completely samadhi in no time.

Answer 6

as people say it doesn't matter --keep meditating.

one day you are up the next day your down , just keep meditating.

don't worie about the in or out thing.

Answer 7

Don't concern yourself with how you should feel. Just let it come naturally. You shouldn't even be thinking about it.

Answer 8

there are different states people aim for, but generally you can tell because it feels good.