God, who appears to the yogi in meditation or penance, is merely a hallucination.+

Sage Sankara meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get salvation from ignorance,

Meditation is not the means to Advaitic Self-awareness. Realizing that form, time and space are one, in essence, leads to Self-awareness.

Meditation is not imitation. People are trying to imitate the formless Soul by stilling their thoughts. Such meditation is not a means to Self-awareness.

The meditator, meditation, and the world are created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness (Spirit).

The knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana.

For the wise who realize everything as the consciousness, what is there to meditate or not to meditate, what to speak or not to speak, what to do or not to do?

Only the Soul or the consciousness is real, and all else is an illusion. Only your constant remembrance will allow you, one day, to realize what truth really is, and, in so doing, realize the ‘Self.

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Remember:~

The mystic must become a constant slave to some line of "thought" or rather an imagination, and then he will really see visions confirming his imaginations.

The mystic who sees God in vision has seen God during the waking state. The waking experience itself an illusion. Thus, whatever seen within the illusion is bound to be an illusion. Thus, it is necessary for the mystic to realize his existence is a reality within the illusion.

The religious Gods are not God in truth. The Spirit is real God There are neither Gods nor Goddesses but only consciousness. Consciousness is God in truth.

For a Christian closes his eyes, and Christ comes to him. For Hindu, closes his eyes and Krishna comes to him. Buddhists closes his eyes and Bhagavān Buddha comes to him. A Jain closes his eyes and Mahavira comes to him.

Christ doesn’t come to a Jaina, Mahavira doesn’t come to a Christian: only the image you project will come.

Your inherited religious God and the image has become solid in your subconscious. It became so real from constant repetition, from continuous remembering, that it seemed goddess speaks to you.

Vedas say God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God, who appears to the yogi in meditation or penance, is merely a hallucination because whatever is known, seen, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is a falsehood because waking experience itself is a falsehood.

Sage Goudapada’s rational exposition of Advaita:~ Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.

From the ultimate standpoint and there is no value for such a claim because it is merely a hallucination.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

Whatever belief of God one is familiar with through his inherited conditioning or samskara that he will see in his visions. When a man is a false Self within the false experience, then whatever he believes is bound to be a falsehood.

God is the Soul, the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. God is not within you, but you and your experience of the world are within the Soul, the God in truth.

Self-realization is God-realization because the Soul, the Self itself, is God. When you and your experience of the world disappear, then God alone prevails as formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar