According to Vedanta, liberation can be achieved only through spiritual knowledge, which requires meditation. Other factors, such as good works or rituals, are merely aids in the process. But such liberation knowledge is not any ordinary or conceptual knowledge. It is direct insight into one's own nature of pure consciousness.
Vedanta's main approach is threefold:hearing the teaching with a receptive mind (shravana), deep thinking about it (manana), and meditating on it consistently (nididhyasana) until full realization dawns, which is the state of samadhi.
This is an excerpt from the book "Vedantic Meditation" which I started reading..by David Frawley. This is the first book of his that I'm reading and I'm really enjoying how he writes, it's very direct and to the point, easily comprehensible.
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