Intensive Meditation Danger

 A teacher I encountered in India had large limestone slabs scattered around the ashram set into the ground like tombstones with short messages painted on to them.  On one of them was the short injunction: START EARLY, DRIVE SLOWLY, REACH SAFELY.  The self torture of Goenka style intensive
goenka risks harpers
 10 hours daily for 10 days meditation would not be recommended for the ordinary seeker.  Meditation there was for 10 minutes after evening hymn singing (Bajans)
The recommended way for the serious aspirant in the tradition of sadhana or spiritual practice in Hinduism is to find a spiritual master, a self-realised saint, and sit at his or her’s feet and allow divinity to guide you.  Just the Presence (darshan) is enough.

That Teacher would have endorsed the way of Bhakti (Devotion) for the vast majority of seekers and approve of the Penny Catechism:

Q: Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.