You you Be 100% attentive.
This is not a meditation where you lose yourself in a trance or you go to sleep or you're happy,
Feeling pleasant.
No.
This is not a Dwaitam meditation.
This is an adwaita.
Antarvichara.
Antarvichara means self-exploration in which I need to be 100% alert awake,
Aware and recognize the inner truth.
Very very clear between meditation and self-exploration.
In Sanskrit,
Atma Vichara.
So let's sit comfortably,
Put our books and pens aside.
We will do our self-exploration now.
In this self-exploration,
We'll try best not to move.
When we move the physical body,
There's a movement in the mind also and that disturbs attention,
The awareness.
So sit comfortably,
Whatever is your comfortable position.
Let's begin the self-exploration now.
Let's close our eyes and sit in a comfortable position.
So that we do not move.
Let's be still for the next few minutes.
And if you have to move,
Then you ensure that you move in time.
Slow motion,
Very very slowly.
If required.
Empty your mind.
Four thots.
All feelings.
No room here for sensations.
No room here for images,
Emotions.
Empty out the mind.
And be out completely and just be.
Notice that in this moment,
There is the presence of the sense of I am.
You can hear it.
The sound of these words.
This is perception of sound.
The perception brings up certain thoughts and feelings automatically.
They arise and they fall.
Don't indulge in any thought,
Any feeling.
Just be a witness to them.
Now when you are the witness.
Recognise.
The sense of I Am.
Not I am this thought or I am that feeling.
Not I am this body.
Not I am,
This is relationship.
But simply I am.
The sense of I am is simply a presence.
Hune ka aisaans in Hindi.
Simply your presence.
And is-ness.
Godness.
This presence is a knowing presence.
Nose,
This perception of sound is arising.
And falling.
Nose,
The thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations arising.
And falling.
It is a knowing presence.
When there is an arising to know.
It becomes the sense of I know.
It does not speak the words I know.
It simply knows.
That is why it is called the Knowing Presence.
Notice that there is no difference between I am and I knew.
There is no difference between presence,
And knowing.
It is the same field of consciousness.
Nothingness,
Awareness.
That simply.
Is.
It is the same feel of nothingness.
Consciousness.
Awareness.
That simply knows.
We are just calling the same field of nothingness awareness or consciousness.
As the knowing presence.
Arisings have started coming up again.
Arisings are nothing but thoughts,
Feelings.
Perception,
Sensation.
When they come up The presence knows them.
We are moving away from the words sense of I am and sense of I know.
To simply the words presence and knowing.
To emphasize that there is no I there.
This knowing presence.
Recognizes the arisings that arise and fall.
This is called the waking state of the mind.
When there is an absence of these arisings.
It is called the deep sleep state of the mind.
And when there are blurry images of the arisings.
It is called the dream state of the mind.
Notice if there are arisings.
Any thought,
Feeling,
Perception or sensation is an arising.
Notice if there are any risings.
When there is these arisings,
It is called the waking state.
When you experience the waiting state,
You are not just experiencing the arisings alone.
We want experiencing.
The presence beyond too.
So right now,
You are experiencing The waking state plus the knowing presence that knows the waking state.
You are experiencing the waking state.
Plus the knowing presence that knows the waking state.
Similarly,
Few hours ago.
In the dream state.
You experienced the dream.
Plus the knowing presence.
When you were in deep sleep state a few hours ago,
You experienced the deep sleep state Bless the Knowing Presence.
The deep sleep state was nothing but an absence of these same arisings.
A knowing presence.
Recognized the absence of the arisings.
And it was just resting in that blankness.
The Knowing Presence knows the presence of Arisings in the waking and dream states.
The Knowing Presence knows the absence of arisings in the deep sleep state.
I just write.
When you are asked the question,
How did you sleep?
You know you slept soundly.
How do you know the answer?
Soundly mint.
There was an absence of any arising.
Nothing disturbed me.
Who is the meaning?
Aye,
The knowing presence knows it.
But as there is no localized eye there,
The mover will show I am and I know.
Just recognize it as a feel of knowing presence.
The knowing presence or the sense of being.
Is present throughout.
Was present in the waking state,
In the dream state,
And the deep sleep state.
To pause in the knowing.
Presence,
Has the knowing presence.
This is your true nature.
Your true nature is this peace which is devoid of excitement.
And devoid of depression.
It is a straight,
Equanimous line.
That is the meaning of peace.
That is the meaning of Ananda.
To pose in your nature.
When this knowing presence forgets its true peaceful nature,
It assumes that it is the body.
Or it assumes that it is the mind.
That is the birth of I.
That is a fake eye.
Notice how you forget your peaceful nature and get drawn into a thought.
Or drawn into a feeling.
Make recognize how you forget.
Who you are and then recognize how you remember and you come back.
Recognize the fake eye.
It is the same fake eye that says,
I am a vegan.
I am dreaming.
And I was asleep soundly.
These are not three separate eyes.
It is the same eye that pretends to be the waker.
In the waking state.
It pretends to be the dreamer in the dream state.
And pretends to be the sleeper in the deep sleep state.
Look for this eye.
When you find it.
Follow any thought.
But ask yourself,
Who am I?
Try to look for the eye.
You will notice that it disappears into a background.
That background beyond the mind is nothing else but the knowing presence.
See if you can notice that even the sound of my voice arises and disappears into the same knowing presence field.
Thoughts,
Feelings,
Perceptions,
Sensations are nothing but the waking state.
So waking state is not that which starts at 6am in the morning and ends at 11pm in the night.
It's only when there are thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations,
And perceptions.
In action.
When they go back into the background,
The waking state is over.
It starts in the next second again.
And see,
Again it is forward.
Can you recognize it?
In the gap between two thoughts,
In the gap between two feelings.
The waking state is over.
It does not exist in that gap.
Can you recognize it?
So waking state arises.
In this field of knowing presence.
And dissolves back into this knowing presence.
In the gap between two waking states.
Is the deep sleep state.
The knowing presence is the substratum of all states.
The waking state arises and falls in.
The dream state arises and falls asleep.
The deep sleep state arises and falls into sleep.
When we identify this knowing presence.
As the subtractive.
Be recognized.
The fourth step.
Dhurya Avastha.
So far,
We have recognized four states.
Waking state is when a particular thought,
Feeling,
Sensation or perception is in action.
Which means like right now you can hear the sound of my words that is perception of sound is in Action.
When I stop speaking,
There will be a gap.
In that gap.
There is no thought,
No feeling.
No sensation,
No perception.
That is akin to the deep sleep state.
Have identified waking state and deep sleep state.
Dreaming state is nothing but imaginations.
Ideas,
Blurry images in the mind.
Of the same arisings,
Same thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations,
And perceptions.
And the substratum of these three states begin dreaming and deep sleep,
The substratum.
On which they arise and fall.
Is the fourth state,
Turiya.
Stay in the knowing presence.
Repose as Durya.
When you dissolve completely into the knowing presence,
You will notice that thoughts are made up of the same substance.
The Knowing Presence.
They are not made up of a separate material other than the knowing presence.
Feelings,
Sensations,
Perceptions are made up of the same material.
The arisings arise from the knowing presence and dissolve into the knowing presence.
Just like waves arise and dissolve into the ocean.
Weeds are made of water.
Rising zammino the knowing presence.
Water arises and falls in water.
We've just given a label called Weave.
To the arising water.
Similarly,
Presence arises in presence and dissolves in presence.
We have just given it labels,
Thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations,
Perceptions.
There is nothing.
But the presence.
Just like there is no wave,
No ocean.
It is only H2O.
Similarly,
There is no waking state,
Dreaming state,
Deep sleep state.
It is all one single presence.
When you recognize that it is all one single presence.
That is called Turiyatita.
The transcendental state.
Turia dita.
Salut
