Meditation is not the means to acquire Advaitic wisdom.+

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Meditation is not a mechanical process of forcing your attention upon an idea or object. Meditation is not the means to acquire Advaitic wisdom. Meditation is not a means to find the truth hidden by form, time, and space. Without realizing the ‘Self-is not you but the Self is the Soul all the effort used in the meditation leads to hallucinate thoughtlessness.

What is the use of doing meditation on the base of the waking entity, which is the false self within the false experience? Meditation is not the means to Self–Knowledge or  Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Meditation is not the goal itself because it is practiced on the base false self (waking entity or ego) within the false experience (waking). Meditation is not the means to Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Meditation is not meditating on the object, but realizing the object is not the Subject.

The Soul is the subject. The world is an object.

The world in which you exist is an object to the Soul, the Self.

Remember, you are part of the illusory objective world.

Chandogya Upanishad:~ One who meditates upon and realizes the Self discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantrams and meditation--all come from the Self.

People dip into meditation, but they do not understand that that is only one-half of the truth and that this dipping is also a mental discipline for them to understand the true nature of the external universe, which understanding they must next get if they are to become a Gnani.

For meditation, one needs not sit and chant Gods name or concentrate on some object. Anything you do will not be meditation. If there is a doer then it is not meditation. As long as there is doing, there is ignorance. As long as the doer is present, the ego is present. If the ego is present the whole world is present. If the world is present the duality is present. If the duality is present then there is an illusion. If the illusion is present the birth, life, death, and the world is experienced as reality.

By realizing the world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Self-awareness.

In Self-awareness, the Soul, the innermost self, remains in its own awareness in the midst of the form, time, and space. Thus, self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the innermost Self.

Remember:~

Meditation is a good and valuable tool in practical life within the practical world to overcome the stress of practical life.   

It is an important and useful tool to quiet the physical –mind or ego and emotions. Once the turbulent tendencies of the physical mind or ego and emotions are brought into harmony, clarity and renewed strength are available to meet and overcome each life challenge as it presents itself in practical life. Thus meditation and yoga are useful as preparatory stages in pursuit of truth.  

Meditation will not eliminate our life challenges but can enable us to harmonize our physical –mind or ego and emotions and to focus that energy like a powerful beam of light on the challenges that lie ahead in practical life with the practical world.  But the seeker has to realize the fact that, the practical life within the practical world is nothing to do with the formless soul, the innermost self, which is beyond form, time, and space.  

Wisdom dawns only when ignorance vanishes. Ignorance vanishes only when the waking entity (ego) becomes aware of the fact that it itself is not the Self. Thus, by practicing meditation on the false self within the false experience the ignorance will remain deeply rooted.  

All physical-based paths and practices are not the means to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Thus trying to acquire Self-Knowledge through meditation and other yogic practices is like trying to catch fish in the desert sand.

Most of the dualistic sages approach was more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the world, they took it as real.  Whereas Sage Sankara says: one must first know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or understand? If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole truth.

Sage Sankara says:~VC-63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech 

Yoga Vasishta, says: - that the world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

One becomes many and many become one. One exists as, ultimate truth or Brahman. That ultimate truth is formless soul or consciousness.  The Soul becomes the universe and the universe becomes the Soul.  

Thus the Soul or consciousness is not limited to a physical entity within the universe because it pervades everything and everywhere in all three states.  Thus, limiting the soul or consciousness to the physical entity is the cause of ignorance.  

All the teachers and teachings of the world stuck up limiting the Soul to the physical entity or ego and base their theories on the physical entity alone. 

Even in Buddhism: - Buddhist teaching has itself become a kind of interactive and self-evolving process, much like its idea of pratityasamutpada. However, the end goal is still Nirvana, which is an experience ultimately beyond all concepts and language, even beyond the Buddhist teachings. In the end, even the attachment to the Dharma, the Buddhist teaching, must be dropped like all other attachments. The tradition compares the teaching to a raft upon which one crosses a swift river to get to the other side; once one is on the far shore; there is no longer any need to carry the raft. The far shore is Nirvana, and it is also said that when one arrives, one can see quite clearly that there was never any river at all.

The scriptures and theories and teaching based on the ego are not a yardstick. Using them as a yardstick to understand and assimilate the truth will lead one towards the pursuit of arguments. The seeker of truth has to discover on his own, the truth of his true existence by inquiring “what is mind?” and “what is the substance of the mind?” and move forward.  

The ultimate truth is one without the second, the one is not in the sense half or two, but the one that remains forever One, without the second.  The consciousness is all-pervading. There is no place where consciousness is not. 

Consciousness is in everyone, consciousness is in everything .consciousness is one behind many. Consciousness alone is. It means the universe is the visible form of consciousness.:~Santthosh Kumaar