VBT – Meditation 75.2
You Are Light
The second step is to take it into dreaming. Now you can take it into dreaming. It has become a reality. Now it is not an imagination. Through imagination you have uncovered a reality. It is real.
Everything consists of light. You are light – unaware of the fact – because every particle of matter is light.
The scientists say it consists of electrons. It is the same thing. Light is the source of all. You are also condensed light: through imagination you are simply uncovering a reality. Imbibe it – and when you have become so filled with it, you can carry it into dreams, not before.
Then, while falling asleep, go on thinking of the flame, go on seeing it, feeling you are the light.
Remembering it… remembering… remembering… you fall down asleep. And the remembrance continues. In the beginning you will start having some dreams in which you will feel you have a flame within, you are light. By and by, in the dreams also you will move with the same feeling. And once this feeling enters the dreams, dreams will start disappearing. Dreams will start disappearing: there will be less and less dreams and more and more deep sleep.
When in all your dreaming this reality is revealed – that you are light, a flame, a burning flame – all dreams will disappear. Only when dreams disappear can you carry this feeling into sleep, never before. Now you are at the door. When dreams have disappeared and you remember yourself as a flame, you are at the door of sleep. Now you can enter with the feeling. And once you enter sleep with the feeling that you are a flame, you will be aware of it – the sleep will now happen only to your body, not to you.
This technique is to help you go beyond these three states. If you can be aware that you are a flame, a light, that sleep is not happening to you, you are conscious. You are carrying a conscious effort.
Now you are crystallised around that flame. The body is asleep, you are not.
This is what Krishna says in Gita: that yogis never sleep. While others are asleep, they are awake. Not that their bodies never sleep. Their bodies sleep – but only bodies. Bodies need rest, consciousness needs no rest; because bodies are mechanisms, consciousness is not a mechanism.
Bodies need fuel, they need rest. That’s why they are born, they are young, then they become old, and then they die. Consciousness is never born, never becomes old, never dies. It needs no fuel, it needs no rest. It is pure energy, perpetual eternal energy.
If you can carry this image of flame and light through the doors of sleep, you will never sleep again, only the body will rest. And while the body is sleeping, you will know it. Once this happens, you have become the fourth. Now the waking and the dreaming and the sleeping are parts of the mind.
They are parts, and you have become the fourth – one who goes through all of them and is none of them.
Really, this is so simple. If you are in the waking state, and then you move into dreams, you cannot be either. If you are in a waking state, then how can you dream? And if you are in a dreaming state, how can you fall into sleep where there is no dream? You must be a traveller, and these states must be stations, so you can move from here and there and come back again. Again in the morning you will move into the waking state.
These are states, and the one who moves within these states is you. But that you is the fourth – and that fourth is what you call the soul. That fourth is what you call divine, that fourth is what you call the immortal element, the eternal life.
WAKING SLEEPING, DREAMING, KNOW YOU AS LIGHT.
This is a very beautiful technique. But try it first in a waking state. And remember, when others become aware, then only have you succeeded in it. They will become aware. Then you can enter into a dream, and then into sleep, and then you can awaken to that which you are – the fourth.
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