NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA.
YOGA IS THE CESSATION OF MIND.
THEN THE WITNESS IS ESTABLISHED IN ITSELF.
IN THE OTHER STATES THERE IS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MODIFICATIONS OF THE MIND.
We live in a deep illusion - the illusion
of hope, of future, of tomorrow. As man is, man cannot exist without
self-deceptions. Nietzsche says somewhere that man cannot live with the true: he
needs dreams, he needs illusions, he needs lies to exist. And Nietzsche is true.
As man is he cannot exist with the truth. This has to be understood very deeply
because without understanding it, there can be no entry into the inquiry which
is called yoga.
The mind has to be understood deeply - the
mind which needs lies, the mind which needs illusions, the mind which cannot
exist with the real, the mind which needs dreams. You are not dreaming only in
the night. Even while awake, you are dreaming continuously. You may be looking
at me, you may be listening to me, but a dream current goes on within you.
Continuously, the mind is creating dreams, images, fantasies.
Now scientists say that a man can live
without sleep, but he cannot live without dreams. In old days it was understood
that sleep is a necessity, but now modern research says sleep is not really a
necessity. Sleep is needed only so that you can dream. Dream is the necessity.
If you are not allowed to dream and allowed to sleep, you will not feel in the
morning fresh, alive. You will feel tired, as if you have not been able to sleep
at all.
In the night there are periods - periods
for deep sleep and periods for dreaming. There is a rhythm - just like day and
night, there is a rhythm. In the beginning you fall into deep sleep for
nearabout forty, forty-five minutes. Then the dream phase comes in, then you
dream. Then again dreamless sleep, then again dreaming. The whole night this
goes on. If your sleep is disturbed while you are deeply asleep without
dreaming, in the morning you will not feel that you have missed anything. But
while you are dreaming, if your dream is disturbed then in the morning you will
feel completely tired and exhausted.
Now this can be known from the outside. If
someone is sleeping you can judge whether he is dreaming or asleep. If he is
dreaming, his eyes will be moving continuously - as if he is seeing something
with closed eyes. When he is fast asleep, eyes will not move; they will remain
steady. So while your eyes are moving, if your sleep is disturbed in the morning
you will feel tired. While your eyes are not moving, sleep can be disturbed, in
the morning you will not feel anything missing.
Many researchers have proved that human
mind feeds on dreams, dream is a necessity, and dream is total autodeception.
And this is not only so in the night: while awake also the same pattern follows;
even in the day you can notice. Sometimes there will be dream floating in the
mind, sometimes there will be no dreams.
When there are dreams you will be doing
something, but you will be absent. Inside you are occupied. For example, you are
here. If your mind is passing through a dream state, you will listen to me
without listening at all, because your mind will be occupied within. If you are
not in a dreaming state, only then you can listen to me.
Yoga means that now there is no hope, now
there is no future, now there are no desires. One is ready to know what is.
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