What is meditation? Why it should be done?

Hey there i love the topic you mentioned, i had one on photoreading and photographic memory. and meditation is a wonderful topic, like you say for students it increases memory power, it helped me, but i need to get the true feeling of meditation. like a trance type of thing. pleas respond.

Meditation is the 7th step in attaining self realization.There are six steps earlier to that which one has to master before going to the 7th step. Meditation is the stage when all your sense telephones are cut off by your own effort and then one point concentration on GOD.In the next stage of Samadhi man can discover the secret of creation.