A visitor: What is the difference between meditation (dhyana) and investigation (vichara)?

Maharshl: Both amount to the same. Those unfit for investigation must practise meditation. In this practice the aspirant forgetting

himself meditates ´I am

Brahman' or 'I am Siva'; thus he continues to hold to Brahman or Siva; this will ultimately end on the residual Being as Brahman or Siva which he will realise to be Pure Being, i.e. the Self.

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