Let's do a self-exploration meditation on I Am That,
Chapter 5.
What is born must die.
Let's sit comfortably with our eyes closed.
You have just closed your eyes to the waking dream world.
You are a character playing an assigned role in this waking dream world.
Recognize that the dream character has to play the role as per the script.
The script has been assigned by somebody else.
The dream character and the dream world both belong to a dream script.
That dream script belongs to the dreamer's mind.
Recognize that I,
The dream character,
Am bound in my role in this dream world by the dreamer's mind.
Let's attempt to locate the dream character and the dreamer's mind experientially now.
Take your attention right behind your closed eyes.
Stay there,
Relax.
The sensation of the eyes,
Or any other gross sensation,
Is simply the physical body of the dream character.
Let the attention fall back and melt away.
You will notice that you are automatically pushed behind the mind.
You can hear my voice.
Hearing is happening at the level of the senses.
You can witness the thoughts.
Maybe they are just repeating my words.
Thoughts arise and fall at the level of the mind.
You are perceiving sound.
This means you are beyond the senses.
You are perceiving thoughts.
This means you are beyond the mind.
You are perceiving sensations of the body.
That means you are beyond the body level.
The body,
The breath,
Senses,
The mind,
All belong to the dream character.
You have just taken position beyond the dream character.
You have just taken position beyond the dream character.
You are now at the witnessing position.
This is also the knowing position.
From this position,
You simply know.
You simply witness all that is happening.
Just stay there.
Every night when you dream,
The body-mind are lying in bed.
You have taken this witnessing position and are knowing what is happening in the dream.
Recognize that right now.
Right now,
You are knowing that the body has its own function of sight,
Sound,
Smell,
Taste,
Touch arising and falling away.
Right now,
You are also knowing that the mind of the dream character is simply displaying thoughts and feelings which arise,
Play and fall away.
You are simply knowing what is happening.
Now take a step beyond this witness.
I,
The knower,
Also seems to dissolve and disappear into some space.
Dissolve.
Disappear.
Recognize the space into which the witness keeps disappearing and keeps appearing from.
In this infinite space of awareness,
The knower and the known arise and fall together.
Stay as the infinite space of awareness.
Recognize its peace.
Recognize that it is void of objects.
Recognize this peaceful void in which I,
The witness,
Arise along with the witnessed object and fall back into it.
Do you recognize that if you can perceive the witness arise and fall,
It means you are beyond the witness?
You are the peaceful void.
The witness is born with the body.
The witness dies with the death of the physical body.
But I,
The void,
Am unborn.
I,
The void,
Am deathless.
The void does not address itself as I.
Yet this is my true nature.
This is my real self.
The vast emptiness.
The vast stillness.
Deep sleep state is nothing but this void of peace.
It is simply an absence of the witness and the witnessed.
It is simply an absence of the knower and the known.
The witness does arise and know the absence of thoughts,
Feelings,
Sensations and perceptions in the deep sleep state.
And when there is nothing to witness or know,
Its knowing function collapses into the void of peace.
This void of peace is the beingness,
Sat.
The witness is simply a pale reflection of this void.
You are Sat.
You are beingness.
You are unborn.
You are deathless.
You never sleep.
You never wake.
You are life itself.
You are life itself.
