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

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 a 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 Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana. 

Meditation will not help to get rid of ignorance. Without Advaitic wisdom, ignorance will not vanish. Thus, Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana alone leads to Self-awareness. 

The seeker cannot know the truth until he knows the stuff from which the mind (universe) is created. The goal of the 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 thoughts.

Meditation is only an effort; it is imagination, an idea; the Soul (consciousness), the innermost Self, remains 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 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 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 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 then only the experience of 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 consciousness. 

Knowledge of 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 awareness in the midst of form, time, and space. Self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the  Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar