Meditation is an art of mastering self. It is an art of unlocking our energy from within. This is a simple thing which can be learned by any person. But most of us do meditation for few months or years and we expect miracles. This is a wrong way of looking at meditation.
It is not the path of running away from family life as it is an art of living a family and social life at it's best. Some people do meditation thinking that they can become immortal. This is one of the vast wrong beliefs. Meditation is an art to master one self. But this is not some dark magic or Voodoo spell.
Also many of them think that it can help to heal quickly from all illness and one can easily eat and drink and smoke. This is one of the worst ideas. You smoke and drink, not even the almighty can save you. It is up to you to clean your body. Also doing meditation will not bring you respect.
Don't live your life in order to impress others. Just live it to express one self in correct way. Achieving Wisdom is also not practically possible with meditation. Once again it is a big myth.
