What is meditation? || Acharya Prashant, on Vivekachudamani (2018)

Just as gold, by thorough heating and fire gives up its impurities and gains its own lustre. So too, the mind through meditation sheds its impurities of sattva, rajas, and tamas and attains the nature of Brahma.

~ Vivekachudamani (Verse Number: 362)

Questioner (Q): Dear Acharya Ji, is meditation the understanding? That’s what the talk is about? What is meant by purifying the mind through meditation?

At many places, is mentioned the practice of meditation. So Acharya Ji, what is this practice about? Is there any method-less method to attain the unchanged understanding or meditative state?

Please guide.

Acharya Prashant (AP): I will repeat the verse, ‘Just as gold, by thorough heating and fire gives up its impurities and gains its own lustre. So too, the mind through meditation sheds its impurities of sat, rajas, and tamas and attains the nature of Brahma’.

The question is about meditation: What is meditation? Is there any method-less method? Is meditation about understanding?