Gurbani has a clear and straight meaning for meditation. It is to focus on your own self. To look for the problems and their solutions within. To become true to one’s divine self.

Simran/Meditation is not an activity, it is a state of mind. Continuous focus on self.

No technique or method will work. All the methods focus on outer chanting, singing, sitting, practices…  And hence the focus too shifts outwards.
Guruji makes it much much simpler. He says God lives within you, within all. No need to find Him. You are His manifestation. All the ‘names’ of “God” come from one or other language, which again is human creation. The words of glory of God, again human creation. According to Guruji, creation cannot comprehend the Creator. So, rather trying to find and focus on God, focus on your own self. Analyze yourself sincerely. This is meditation. This can be done 24×7. While walking, talking, eating, drinking, playing, laughing…doing all chores. No need to sit for hours, no need to go for pilgrimages, no need to wash body in ‘holy’ waters. Wash your mind with wisdom. Yes, you must spend time to read and contemplate on whatever knowledge you obtain from your surroundings – be it Baani, religious books, elders, people, things, situations- internalize the truth. Work on your own self. Inner self.
When Guruji talks about remembering ‘name’, he certainly doesn’t mean to chant or repeat certain ‘name’ or word. ‘Naam’ in Baani has different contextual meanings. And most often is directed towards remembering your true self.
We may sit for hours to study, chant, at some odd early morning hours, but what matters is what we do and how we behave in rest of the time in the world, with the world.

To sincerely know ‘what I am doing’, is the focus of Guru Nanak’s meditation.
The method here is just to constantly remind our self to heed to the inner voice – conscience- the voice of God within. To follow the Guru, who is within (Guru is the wisdom, the internalized knowledge- which we acquire from a person, text or situation).

Be attentive to that Guru, that voice. To wash the mind in those holy waters within, to sit in peace within – even when outwardly we are driving, walking talking eating… To focus towards that calm and stability.

In words of Guru Nanak:
“Sab gun tere mae nahi koe
Vin gun keete bhagat(i) na hoe” (Japji Sahib)

God, who lives within us, is the sum total of all goodness, virtues. Meditation is to achieve that goodness. Nothing else is meditation.

So, meditation is to focus and analyze our own self and work on ourselves. Like a farmer works hard in the fields to select the required plants and root out the unwanted weeds. Once, we start sorting ourselves, planting goodness and virtues in our self, and rooting all those undesirable out of our self, we move towards become One with our divine self. That is the target, the purpose of meditation, life. To achieve Oneness (Ek Onkaar) with our own self