Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance.+

For the wise who realize everything as the consciousness, what is there to meditate or not to meditate, what to speak or not to speak, what to do or not to do?

Only the Soul or the consciousness is Real and all else is an illusion. Only your constant remembrance will allow you, one day, to realize what truth really is, and, in so doing realize the ‘Self.

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.

The meditation, meditator, and the world in which meditation is performed are an illusion created out of single clay. That single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 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 dualistic illusion. Self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the Self.

Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance.

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.

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

Exercise discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation.

Advaita means the Soul, the Self, which is second to none. The Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Advaita is the nature of the God, the i Self. Advaita is God. Advaita is the fullness of the consciousness.

Meditation is not the means to Advaitic Self-awareness. Realizing that form, time and space are one, in essence,  leads 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 Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

The witness of the three states is not the waking entity (you), but the formless Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the three states are merely an illusion. 

Whatever is happening within the waking experience is a reality, within the waking experience, but the waking experience itself is an illusion. 

The illusion appears as the waking or the dream (duality)  and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). The Soul, the  Self, witnesses the coming and going of the three states. The Soul, the innermost Self, which witnesses the states, is unaffected and apart.

To realize this truth takes quite a lot of mental effort. A perfect understanding leads the seeker to Self-awareness. The one who is able to grasp this truth is a Gnani. :~Santthosh Kumaar