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.”
Ramana Maharishi: ~
Q: Which meditation will help me?
Sage Ramana Maharishi: Meditation on an object is not helpful. For this reason, you must learn to realize that the subject and object are one. In meditating on an object, you are destroying that sense of oneness and creating duality. Meditate only on the Self. Try to realize that the body is not you, the emotions are not you, and the intellect is not you. When all these are stilled, you will find something else is there; hold onto that and it will reveal itSelf.
Q: But when I have stilled everything, I almost fall asleep!
Sage Sri, Ramana Maharishi: That does not matter. Put yourself into the condition as deep as sleep, and then watch: be asleep consciously; then there is only the one Consciousness.
Bhagavad Gita (Chap. XII) Krishna tells Arjuna: ~ Knowledge of both matter and spirit is the True knowledge. One is living in the body, which is the world, and he has to eat and move, and work in the external environment. One cannot get away from it. It is his life.
Therefore, one ought to know, understand, and grasp its meaning. A person who refuses to do so is refusing to face the whole of reality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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