Dear Santtosh,
I would like to go further into this by saying that there are two types of consciousness.
In the first case it is consciousness with content i.e. thoughts , memories etc.
The second is consciousness devoid of its content which is pure consciousness.
Meditation does help to empty the content of consciousness as reiterated by K, others and from my personal experience.
SK:- “Meditation does help to empty the content of consciousness as reiterated by K, others and from my personal experience.”
As per my conviction:-
The personal experience based on the physical self is not wisdom. When the physical body is not the experience of the physical body itself, and the physical body is dependent on something else for its existence. Then how the meditation performed on the base of the physical body as self can get wisdom, by being ignorant of the formless knower of the physical body. If one knows the knower of the physical body and world, then he will realize the knower’s nature it-self is meditative, because the knower is formless.
Ignorance makes us think the objective awareness [mind] is reality. When ignorance vanishes the objective awareness [mind] vanishes, then there is awareness of the subject, which is consciousness [soul]. When the ignorance vanishes unconsciously, it is called deep sleep or meditation based on the physical self/ego or yogic Samadhi. When ignorance vanishes consciously it is called wisdom.
Meditation is not the means to non-dual wisdom, because one considers the self [author] as physical. Thoughts, memories, world, body ego exist only in ignorance. And ignorance [duality] prevails until one considers the self as physical. If ignorance [duality] vanishes then one is automatically in the realm of meditation [non-duality], which is the nature of the consciousness.
Meditation does help to reduce the stress of the worldly life. It is only helpful in preparatory stages in pursuit of truth, but it is not the means to acquire non dual wisdom.
Wisdom dawns only from a well directed inquiry, analysis and reasoning. When wisdom dawns the ignorance disappears, and one becomes aware of the fact that, the objective awareness [mind] also is consciousness, because it is created out of consciousness. The wisdom dawns in the midst of ignorance. Without ignorance one cannot acquire the wisdom. Without wisdom one cannot get rid of the ignorance.
