Insights—“Meditation on Brahman”? IMPOSSIBLE
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2024-04-06

Namaste 🙏  I'm going to rant about something that I saw on YouTube today. I did a search for "meditation on Brahman," and look what popped up: About a million videos on how to meditate on Brahman.

There's only one problem: meditation on Brahman is impossible—ontologically impossible.

Why is that? Because meditation means to focus on an object, and maintain that focus for some time until it changes the state of your consciousness. So, the Upaniṣads are full of instructions, like "meditate on Brahman as air, prāṇa; meditate on Brahman as the deity, Viṣṇu or Śiva or Devī; meditate on Brahman as space, ākāśa; meditate on Brahman as intelligence, as life, as consciousness," etc., etc., etc.

Now, this is the only possible way to meditate on Brahman—in other words, indirectly. Because Brahman itself is imperceptible. Why is it imperceptible? Because we are Brahman and we are the perceivers; we are the knowers; we are the witness, isn't it?