It appears that most Indians still regard saintliness and other-worldliness as the real signs of spiritual man. Even men of action revere the anchorite and the renunciate even though they hardly emulate him.
The faith and intuition embedded within man is bound to take over our current paradigms leading to the emergence of a new and higher species or sub-species out of man, less burdened with animality and beginning to show the torch of divinity hidden within his cloak of a dense, obscure body.
Meditating whole day is neither advisable nor possible. Meditation is primarily a mental process, and at best and if truly done with persistence it may take us towards an impersonal peace.
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MOTHER BY MONA SARKAR (TEXT)
You know, when the Grace acts, the result could be a death or misfortune or happiness; it could even be a catastrophe but it is always the best for the individual. It is a blow sent by the Divine for a bounding progress. The Grace is that which makes you advance rapidly towards the realisation.
The lover of thought knows that he will find thought everywhere around him, in the little flower as in the radiant sun; nothing and no one appears to him too humble or too obscure to be for him an intermediary of the idea he is ever seeking.