Any kind of meditation is good...

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The jnana method is said to be vichara (enquiry). That is nothing but

'supreme devotion' (parabhakti). The difference is in words only.

 

You think that bhakti is meditation on the Supreme Being. So long as there

is vibhakti (the sense of separateness), bhakti (reunion) is sought. The

process will lead to the ultimate goal as is said in Srimad Bhagavad Gita :

 

arto jignasuh artarthi jnani cha Bharatarshabha

tesham jnani nityayukta ekabhaktir visishyate

---Ch. VII (16, 17)

 

Any kind of meditation is good. But if the sense of separateness is lost and

the object of meditation or the subject who meditates is alone left behind

without anything else to know, it is jnana. Jnana is said to be ekabhakti

(single minded devotion). The jnani is the finality because he has become

the Self and there is nothing more to do. He is also perfect and so

fearless, dwitiyat vai bhayam bhavati -- only the existence of a second

gives rise to fear. This is mukti. It is also bhakti.

 

(from Talk, 650)

 

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Translation of above Sanskrit lines:

 

'(four types of virtuous men worship Me...) the distressed, the seeker of

knowledge, the seeker of wealth, and the jnani, O most excellent of the

Bharatas. Of them, the jnani, eternally engaged in single minded devotion,

excels.