By repeating the name of a religious God the ignorance will not vanish because God is a formless, timeless spaceless existence. How are you going to remember God's name when God is a formless, timeless spaceless existence.
While remembering religious Gods and Gurus' names you bring the mental image of the physical form. The physical form belongs to the dualistic illusion. By merely repeating the name of God or Guru has no meaning.
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth, is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.
God in truth, is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone, is real and eternal, and all else is an illusion.
Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.
Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.
The God with form and name does not find any support from the Vedas. One-pointed concentration, thinking, and the mental picture of a formless, timeless spaceless, and nameless God is very much necessary.
Reputing the name of a religious God or Guru like a parrot has no value. Mentally holding the image of the formless, timeless, and spaceless nature of God leads to Self-awareness. Self-awareness is God-awareness or Brahmic–awareness.
Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance. Ignorance will not vanish by remaining without thoughts or focusing attention on some object.
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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 place 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 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 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 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 the 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 form, time, and space the thoughts will not rise. Whatever efforts you make toward 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 is 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. 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
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