“Now, I’ll try to say a few words about these FAQ’s – frequently asked…”

Now, I’ll try to say a few words about these FAQ’s – frequently asked questions. The usual doubts, the usual difficulties people face when they enter into meditation, when they even hear about meditation. Many people think meditation is something like leaving the whole thing. People are afraid – they come and tell me ‘I’m afraid that I may get too much attached into meditation’. The meditation itself is nothing but removing your attachment - you can’t get too much attached to meditation. They are afraid that their desires, their fears, their - whatever they think as life will be taken away from them. I can say that is true. Whatever you think as your life will not be anymore part of your life. Many times, you are trying to protect yourself from the unnecessary fears. The basic truth is you don’t need to protect yourself from your fears because they do not have a base. The concept or the idea you are a solid being and you have so many fears will be shaken by meditation. What you think as your desires will be shaken, so naturally, what you think as your fears will also be shaken. The fear and desire, and worry, whatever you think as your own, everything will start going through a big change. There will be big psychological revolution. There will be practically a new birth. Your software will have new qualities. I can say it’s like changing the software, changing the inner software. Your hardware may be the same, but your inner software will go through a big change. It will be completely changed. Meditation is all about changing the inner software. Your body may be same, your hardware may be same, the things with which you are living may be same, the persons with which you are living may be same, but the being with which you are living will be totally different. The being will have a different quality. The inner software will be new. This simple understanding, you can say, this simple understanding of these four states of consciousness can initiate the psychological revolution in you. This is like a master key - if you apply every moment in your life - if you are aware of these four states, constantly you will see before every decision, the mechanism or the way in which your thought process goes towards the decision will be changed. This is what I call cognitive shift – receiving information, processing, and deciding that will become totally different. If you understand these four states - when you come out of deep sleep state to the dreaming, you understand deep sleep was lower than dreaming. When you come out of dreaming to waking, you understand the dream state was illusory, it was not real. Same way, when you move from waking state to the fourth state turiya you will realize this state is not the reality. This is not as you think. Every time when you face the depression or low mood this understanding starts raising from you within, but, we manage such a way that psychological revolution does not happen inside us because too much is at stake, too much is at stake. If that psychological revolution starts happening, you are afraid, you don’t know what will happen. You don’t know what you will decide about your cherished desires, cherished goals cherished ideals, cherished ideas. You’re afraid you may have to let go. When I started the word, when I started the session, I used the word [insert Sanskrit….] In that commentary, one great acharya says let us inquire into the reality means the guru and disciple, both of them are deciding - lets have courage to follow where the reality leads us. Not just inquiring, let’s have courage to go where this research leads us, where this understanding leads us, where we are moving. Just this simple understanding of these four states can transform the way in which we make decisions. The cognitive shift can happen, the psychological revolution can happen. Whether we directly want to understand or not, the truth is, there is no scale. The state in which you are living is reality, or authentic reality. Because when you come out of dream, you say that is illusory. When you go into the dream, this seems like illusion. When you reach the fourth state, only then you realize, this - not only the dream state, even the waking state, so called waking state is also an illusion. Again, the moment we hear the word illusion we are afraid, we get frightened, we feel if that idea illusion gets into our system we may renounce, we may leave everything, our lives may change. I tell you, you will renounce only one thing, that is your suffering, nothing else. Person who understands what is in front of him is not complete reality; he will renounce only one thing - his suffering.

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