Pradeep Apte - The Nisargadatta Gita

133. Meditation means to have an
objective or hold onto something. You
are that something. Just being the being
‘I am’.
Meditation means to ponder or have your attention
focused on some object, image or ‘mantra’. You do
so till what you have held in meditation disappears,
or you can say you the ‘subject’ and the ‘object’
merge into a unity. When you ‘just be’ or are in the
knowledge ‘I am’ only, you are both the subject
and the object of meditation. It is the ‘being
meditating on “being”’ and as a result both cancel
out each other and what remains ultimately is the
Absolute.
134. It is not with the body identification
that you should sit for meditation. It is
the knowledge ‘I am’ that is meditating
on itself.
True meditation only begins when initially, using
your discrimination, you cut off everything that
does not go with the ‘I am’- which includes the
body-mind identification, which is the major
obstacle. You should not have the feeling ‘I am soand-so
meditating’ or ‘I am sitting at this
particular place, in this posture, meditating on…’