Meditation is not the means to acquire Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.+

Different theories on meditation have made it complicated, and books on yoga have made it still more complicated.

Realization of the Soul, which is God in truth is real meditation. Meditate on the truth, which is the Soul, the Self not on the myth, which is the 'I'.

Unless and until ignorance is removed and the Advatic wisdom of Sage Sankara is gained, the truth hidden by the ignorance will not be revealed.

The consciousness which we do not see is real; and the world, which we do see is an illusion. In reality, the universe does not really exist. Consciousness, which is the cause of the illusory universe really exists. 

Meditation is not  the means to acquire Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

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

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

Meditate on the truth, which is the Soul, which is hidden by the 'I'.

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. 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 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.

Sage Sankara says:~ Yoga is not the means of liberation.(p-132/133 commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad).

Brihad Upanishads: ~ even yoga cannot give perfect concentration and the only way to gain it is philosophical realization. This confirms Mandukya Upanishads' statement that yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass. (Page ~133- first para)

In Sutra Bashya and Manduka Upanishads:~ Samadhi and sleep are identical.

Brihad Upanishad does not advocate Samadhi.

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 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 hallucinating 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  get Self-realization without realizing the ‘Self is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of  consciousness. :~Santthosh Kumaar