Meditation is not imitation. People are trying to imitate the nondual nature of the Soul by stilling their thoughts.+

Meditation is not imitation. People are trying to imitate the nondual nature of the Soul by stilling their thoughts. Such a meditation will not be a means to Self-awareness.

The meditator, meditation, and the world are created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul which is present in the form of the consciousness (spirit). The knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana.

Meditation is not meant for Self-realzation. Meditation will not help the seeker to get rid of ignorance. Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance. The ignorance will not vanish by remaining without the thoughts or focusing attention on some object.

Ashtavakra says: ~ “This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”

Meher Baba: ~ ‘Meditation has often been misunderstood as a mechanical process of forcing the mind upon some idea or object.

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.

Until a man is ripe to receive Self-knowledge, it is fatal to ask him to give up meditation.

The novice seekers must understand that yoga is all right in its places and that it is good at the beginning of the pursuit of truth, but when yoga is made ends in itself and not means acquiring the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Yoga and meditation are not useless, they are useful to bring the restless ego under control. Yoga and meditation are not final. By indulging in yoga and meditation, it will lead not lead to the ultimate end of understanding. Yoga cannot remove ignorance. It is only a step. It removes obstructions.

For meditation, one need 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.

Remember:~

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 '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 Self.

Meditation is not a means to find the truth hidden by illusory 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. The thoughtlessness is not wisdom. by ending the thoughts you may get peace, not Advaitic wisdom.

Remember:~

Meditation is not a bridge between you and the Soul because you are the false Self within the false experience.  There is no use in doing meditation without realizing the fact that you are not the Self.

You and the world in which you exist is the product of ignorance. It is of no use of indulging in meditation without getting rid of ignorance. 

Without getting rid of ignorance, it is impossible to realize the world in which you exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, doing meditation within the illusion gives illusory results without realizing the truth of your true existence keeps the Soul in the grip of ignorance. 

The nature of the Soul is meditative because it is nondual. By getting rid of ignorance through wisdom leads to nondual Self-awareness. Self-awareness is real meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories one remains in the realm of duality. 

You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. Finally when you become aware of the fact that, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality. :~ Santthosh Kumaar