All the spiritual texts are clear. And simple. There are no riddles anywhere (if we are perceiving riddles-sensemaking-projecting, it means we are still seeking something somewhere "there" a.k.a. mind enmeshed in senses, which is okay but best to be honest and clear about it to get past the whole clinginess to a certain person-al idea of seeking which is often just you letting the mind trick you. The whole idea of riddle is a projection/lack of seeing clearly. All that there is is That but allow me to be very clear and say again that when I say this I am not referring to the ideas that mind projects as a part of its habitual tendency to make sense mixed with accumulated memory/knowledge owing to extroversion of Mind/enmeshment with the senses.).. 
That is if you are willing to abandon the notion that it has necessarily got to be a strugglesome path/some kind of roundabout way to "here" (which is also an idea well because never not been here/That). 
So far as sādhanā (spiritual practice) is concerned it can and often should continue all the time and through it all even as we have dedicated hours for it, and yet one can just drop it regardless of what the seeming of body-mind is doing (and before the monkey mind rushes to make assumptions, you should know that nothing foolish/the reader might or might not like to hear is being implied or said here.). 
Avoid mixing up non-dual awareness/realisation with person-al/conditioned intellectual confusions that come to fragment view, the mind is continually a deceiver.
Consider the possibility that maybe just maybe it is simple indeed.
The "drop it" is implied in the sense of mind of course a.k.a. see/let it move through, don't cling.
To see things as they are means to really see things as they are. 
Dhyāna is our best friend to move past the deep debris of all conditioning and see things as they are.