Advaita Vedanta says, you are Brahman. What is the problem then? The problem is we don't know it,. We don't feel it, we don't think it's real for us. So that is called ignorance. Ignorant mind is the first layer of problem. Solution for ignorance, knowledge. How does knowledge come? Ganyoga. Then he says, pray to be freed from all temptation and abandonment. I think here he means, graha and tia ga, getting something and getting rid of something else. That's what the mind is always doing, raga dveshya. This mind. By meditation also is not possible, it's because
"Do not pray for the fulfillment of your wishes, for they may not accord with the will of God. But pray as you have been taught, saying: Thy will be done in me (cf. Luke 22:42). Always entreat Him in this way - that His will be done. For He desires what is good and profitable for you, whereas you do not always ask for this." - Evagrius Ponticus.
Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on Evagrius's teachings on prayer.