In the latest CM West Newsletter, there is a reproduction of commentary on Ashtavakra Gita by Gurudev Chinamayananda where in he wonderfully explains the purpose of disciplining the BMI layers so as to step into the hallowed halls of meditation. This is necessary for an average person who is training to experience that divine state. For a man of perfection - a Jnani who has established himself/herself into that supreme Brahman, continuation of the meditation may not be necessary. For such people who have 'transcended' even their mind, the purpose of meditation is no more valid. Gurudev declares the meditation for such Jeevanmuktas as "To give up meditation, through meditation, is the highest meditation!" Read below, understand, THINK! and contemplate.

"To one who has slept, there can be no more any attempt to sleep. To the sleeper, there is no more any anxiety to sleep. Similarly, once you have realized that You are indeed the Self, ever free, thereafter, to think, to contemplate, or to meditate on the nature of the Self, would be to re-crystallize your ego and disturb your Experience divine with the fluttering of your mind.

In short, to give up meditation through meditation is the highest meditation! There is no greater meditation than meditationless-meditation. It is infinite Fulfillment. It is the end of the way, the last leap into the Goal. Here, yoga ends. The dream of the ego has rolled away. The Self, as the Self, revels in the Self. The meditator has become the meditated.

Man has stepped onto the throne of God! This is no poetic exaggeration of Ashtavakra. "

Hari Om.