After 50 years of practicing raj yoga, an ancient form of meditation, I can flat out tell you, quieting the mind is not the point. What if there was an experience of light, peace, a taste of the universal energy, something unworldly and transcendent that keeps you alive behind all the hoopla around meditation? If you haven’t been there, you can’t write about it. If you’ve tasted the fruit, you know it. Who wants to just sit there and have a quiet mind for a few moments after god knows how much effort and time you put in? Not me. There is a my friend.