Meditation is not Advaitic wisdom.+

Meditation is a progressive step and there is no need to condemn them.  Religion and yoga are not the ends, for they can never directly lead to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. All other teachings and practices other than Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana are for beginners only. There are stages in comprehending the truth. Meditation is not Advaitic wisdom.

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.

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 to acquire 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. Indulging in yoga and meditation 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 God's 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 are 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.  Self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the innermost Self.

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. The thoughtlessness is not wisdom. by ending the thoughts you may get peace, not  Advaitic wisdom.

Thoughts come only in the domain of form, time, and space. Without the form, time, and space the thoughts will not raise. Whatever efforts you do to Self-realization without realizing the ‘Self is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

Ashtavakra says: ~ “This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or 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 of the Soul, the 'Self' remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion. Self-awareness is real meditation. Thus, Self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the innermost 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. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar