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

The seeker cannot know the truth until he knows the stuff from which the mind (universe) is created. The goal of pursuit of the truth is to realize the fact that, the true Self is not the form, but it is the formless Soul (spirit or consciousness).

When one puts aside the imagination and has the thinker ~ what does he get with thinking—he can get only a thoughts.

Meditation is only an effort; it is imagination, an idea; the Soul (consciousness), the innermost Self, remaining the same with or without ideas.

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 comes 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.

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

Sage Sri, Sankara says the transparent Truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani) then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.

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

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. 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 then only the experience of 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 the 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, the self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the innermost Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar