Acharya Prashant addresses the question of how to meditate continuously for 24 hours. He explains that the one-hour special meditation is something that you 'do,' and when it is something you do, it remains a function of the doer, the ego. The doer expresses itself as another doing called 'meditation.' Instead, he suggests that to meditate for the remaining 23 hours, you don't need to do anything. You simply need to see what you are already doing. If you observe your daily actions, thoughts, and emotions and see no peace, but instead find anger, conflict, and distraction, that is good. This observation is the success of 24-hour meditation, as you are now able to see how your entire day actually is. He elaborates that our nature is such that when we truly encounter and acknowledge noise as noise and conflict as conflict, we will no longer be able to support it. This is real meditation. He calls it a 'dirty' thing because it requires you to plunge directly into the dirt and filth of your daily life. This is contrasted with the popular, artificial, one-hour meditation, which he describes as a clean, holy, and nonsensical practice where one tries to feel divine. This false meditation is about putting on an artificial face and making the ego feel good about itself, which is dangerous as it blocks the possibility of change. You change only when you are dissatisfied with how you are, but if a technique makes you feel good about yourself, the possibility of change is blocked. Real meditation, he states, is a lifelong love affair that you pay for with your life. It is a dangerous, dirty, and hurtful business. The mind will be illuminated only in the fire of its own annihilation. Real spirituality is not about pretending you are already the Self (Atman) or the Truth; it is about seeing that you are the stinking ego, light-years away from the Atman. The bliss that comes from it is a courageous kind of bliss, like that of a warrior who has fought wholeheartedly, sustained a hundred cuts, and yet lost. It is not the cheap bliss similar to physical pleasure or mental happiness. Real meditation is a day-long, lifelong activity, a love affair, and one cannot be a lover for just one hour a day.