Seven Signs of Progress in Meditation (from an article by Paramahansa Yogananda)

• An increasing peacefulness during meditation.

• A conscious inner experience of calmness in meditation metamorphosing into increasing bliss.

• A deepening of one's understanding and finding answers to one's questions through the calm intuitive stare of inner perception.

• An increasing mental and physical efficiency in one's daily life.

• Love for meditation and desire to hold on to the peace and joy of meditative state in preference to attraction to anything in the world.

• An expanding consciousness of loving all with unconditional love that one feels towards his own dearest loved ones.

• Actual contact with God and worshiping Him as ever new bliss felt in meditation and in His omnipresent manifestations within and beyond all creation.