Meditation is the total negation of ignorance, which is present in the form of the ‘I’.+

Chandogya Upanishad -One who meditates upon and realizes the 'Self' discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantram and meditation--all come from the Self.- 

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-56- Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.-

Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance Meditating on the object mechanically is not real meditation. Meditate on the subject. 

The world is an object to the Soul, which is the formless subject. Get so much drowned in Soul-awareness by realizing the Soul alone is real and all else is an illusion created out of the Soul till the illusion becomes alone with the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

For meditation one, need not sit and chant God's name or concentrate on some object. Anything you do will not be meditation. If there is a doer then it is not meditation. 

As long as there is doing, there is ignorance. As long as the doer is present, the ego is present. If the ego is present the whole world is present. 

If the world is present the duality is present. If the duality is present then there is an illusion. If the illusion is present then the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world is experienced as a reality.

By realizing the world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to self-awareness. 

In Atmic -awareness, the Soul, the Self remains in its own nondual awareness of its true nature in the midst of form, time, and space. Thus, Atmic-awareness is real meditation. Nondual-awareness is the nature of the Soul, the Self.  

Remember:~ 

Meditation is not focusing the attention on the ‘I but shifting the attention from the 'I' to the Soul, the Self, which is hidden by the 'I'. The ‘I’ is not limited to the ego because the ‘I’ is the whole universe. The ‘I’ is ignorance. Meditation is the total negation of ignorance, which is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Only in ignorance, there is conflict. There is no conflict in the nature of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is ever free and is totally free from conflict. All the conflicts belong to the dualistic illusion.

Ignorance is the cause of form, time, and space without ignorance then there is no division of form, time, and space in consciousness. The nature of the ‘Self’ is the fullness of consciousness. : ~Santthosh Kumaar