“‘Sleeping your way to enlightenment’.”

‘Sleeping your way to enlightenment’. As you are all aware we are continuing on siddha tradition. In the siddha tradition series, the states of consciousness; today you will understand the different states of sleep state; the internal different states in sleep state.

First, in the deep sleep state, the first state is, you see we are analyzing and understanding the various states in sleep state; in the deep sleep, in the sleep, how you go through various ups and downs and various states. Understanding and experiencing and having clarity about those states will really liberate you and help you towards enlightenment. Another one important thing, you don’t need to waste much of your waking time to work for enlightenment. Just your sleeping time can be used for enlightenment and waking time you can use it to create the outer world. Whatever world you are in, you can achieve great things in that world. The waking state you are in this world so spend time for this. In the deep sleep state you are in different world; use that time for enlightenment. After all anything you achieve in the sleep state is not going to be any outer world things which you try to achieve in the sleep state is impossible. So let us use that state to become enlightened.

Sleeping your way to enlightenment will really make your enlightenment quick, fast and of course easy. So the first step, the first understanding; sleepful waking, sushupti jagra, sushupti jagrat; sleepful waking state. I will give you the exact original definition of this sleepful waking state in Tamil first. I'll exactly give you the definition from the siddha tradition. Urangi yadanda piraga anda orakkattin sugamudalana tanmigal ivvidamena perarikkayeduthiraikum nilai. After you wake up from sleep the state of explaining the pleasure and qualities and nature of sleep to others after waking from sleep; After waking up from sleep if you are able to explain the state, the pleasure, the experience of that sleep state; the state in which you were, is sleepful waking state; sushupti jagrat.

Sometime early morning you will wake up and you will really be able to feel you slept completely, deeply. Whole body will have that peace. Especially whoever had energy darshan yesterday night, you can understand today morning how the body is. Not only whoever had energy darshan, even if you have seen what is going on here, you would have had that sleepful waking state. It’s a powerful experience; powerful state. This sleepful waking state is responsible for the rejuvenation of your body, rebuilding of your muscles. If you have this state, physically your muscles will be everyday rejuvenated. I tell you, this state will avoid aging of that day. One night if you spend in sleepful waking state, that day will not make you age. So how many nights you spend in sleepful waking state that many days you don’t need to bother about aging. Your organs will not age and same way if you had an intense experience of energy darshan, at least one full year your organs does not age.

If you had, if you have been a divya shariri, means the people who are sitting around me during the energy darshan helping guiding all the participants to receive energy darshan, those people are only called as divya shariris. Or I can say they are getting trained to become divya shariris; means it’s like a when a sun is shining if you keep ten mirror all the ten are properly focused on sun, towards sun. That whole area that area between the ten mirror will shine not only because of sun; the ten reflections. So this divya shariris are like a mirror they act like a mirror so that that whole area intensely radiates energy. That is why people who come to have energy darshan they literally enter my own physical body. Please understand it’s like me having an extended huge physical body. In that very intense energy field they enter and have the energy darshan and go. If you have been a divya shariri, I can say at least, especially with the experience, intensely working on the body not only you don’t age, you grow younger. The growing younger happens when you become divyashariri and the grace, joy, beauty, starts radiating when you are divya shariri.

Next state; sushupti swapna; sleepful dreaming state. The definition urangi yidanda piraganda orakathintanmai yinnadenatuundriyin tondraamalu irakkum ayyiruvunilai. A doubtful state about determining the nature and qualities of sleep after you wake up. After you wake up if you are not able to be clearly determining, if you are doubtful, that state, that nature, you are not able to tell very clearly the nature and qualities of sleep; that state is what we call sleepful dreaming; sushupti swapna. You will wake up but you will not be able to tell exactly what has happened, how you felt, what was happening in that sleeping state. You will not be able to define, you will not be able to make a clear understanding inside you. You will not be able to verbalize it properly outside you. That is what is this state; the sleepful dreaming state; means disturbed sleep.

Sometime if you are highly stressed worried about your business or relationship or something, next day morning when you wake up you do not know what has happened in your sleeping state you will only feel body pain. That state only is this sleepful dreaming. It’s like a abusing your body and sleep state. If you continue to be in this state every night, you will age quickly. That is why you plan to take these sleeping pills and all that. Sleeping pills are just escape from this state. But unfortunately sleeping pills will not be able to give you permanent solution. It can give you solution for one or two days; not more than that. Stressed people go through this state. I can say this state is what I call hell.

People ask me Swamiji; yesterday somebody asked me in energy darshan. Swamiji so much they abused you and disturbed you. Why don’t you curse them and put them in hell. I tell them, Arey I don’t need to curse. I don’t need to curse. A small story; One cunning crooked thief was sitting on a tree. In that way one sadhu was going very quiet way he was just walking. This fellow could not keep quiet; this thief. He threw a stone on that sadhu. That sadhu just looked up, by his nature he is such a soft, happy, graceful person. He just looked up, looked at the thief and he felt maybe that fellow is mentally sick or mentally having some pains and agony that is why he is throwing stones at everybody. So he raised his hand and said let you be blessed let you be healed, so that you will not do this kind of bad things. He thought mentally and just blessed and went away. This thief thought O God! If you throw stones at people, I think in this area people bless you. He mistook. The funny thing is, next one king came on the same route. This fool with his same understanding he threw a stone on king also. What would have happened? Just king cut his head that’s all; cut the thief’s head.

So understand, see what that sadhu had he gave back. He had only blessings and healing. He gave that back; he gave that. What that thief had, he gave that. What the thief had, thief had a cunning, arrogance, violent, nature; he threw stone. That sadhu had silent, beautiful, blissful, happy, healing mood. So he healed. But that thief’s nature is not going to keep quiet, so naturally he will attract what he wants; what he is worthy of. So naturally he will go around throw stones continuously and he will attract his own destruction. We don’t need to curse; we don’t need to do anything. So understand that’s the answer yesterday I gave in a very short way.

So people who harass, abuse, disturb others, who carry so much vengeance, stress inside them, will every day suffer with this state of sushupti swapna; means sleepful dreaming. That is what is hell; actually. That is hell. It will be so stressful, so tiring, they will quickly age. The aging will be very quick. All their organs will become tired. Muscles will lose power, muscles will lose strength and their whole senses will lose its power. And naturally getting more and more into the worst hell, disturbed health, disease, mental disorder, all this will start happening in them.

Any how the next is sleepful sleeping, sushupti sushupti, sushupta sushupti; sleepful sleeping urangiyalanda perugu urrakkatin sugam muchilum aranda poividum nilai. The state in which the nature and pleasure of sleep is totally forgotten after waking. After waking, completely what has happened in the sleep state is forgotten. You see if you remember completely this sleepful waking; its sleepful waking, if you remember bit and doubtful, not clear about that sleeping state; its sleepful dreaming. If you have completely forgotten; it is sleepful sleep. Sleepful sleep is ok. I can say it is neither wrong nor right. It is like a stay order; stagnant. Ok that’s all. Neither you need to encourage nor you need to discourage. This is what is actually induced by sleeping pill. The earlier state is a disorder; when you add sleeping pills this is the state you will experience, but it is not a permanent solution.

Next is sushupta turiya; sleepful fourth state. This is the state exactly people who have been a divya shariri yesterday will be experiencing yesterday whole night. That is why still I can see that hangover is there. Sushupta turiya; sleepful fourth state urangiyadinda piragu urakkatin tanmai agnanavishayamendrum adarka sakshiyana atmave satyamendrum thirindugollum nilai. State of understanding the nature of sleep is ignorance after waking from sleep and realizing that the atman is the truth. Please understand sometime when you wake up early morning you know thoroughly whole night you were aware. You are not tired there was no thoughts, there is no tiredness; but you were aware. You have not slept at all. Whole night you know you were awake. This is the state; sleepful fourth state.

If you were in energy field and go and sleep; you will be in this state only. Early morning when you wake up, three things; one, no body pain, fresh, alive you will feel. Second, no thoughts about the sleep; you wouldn’t have had any thought. Third, you wouldn’t have slept. It’s like a fully wake; fully you have been awake. If this three, if you feel morning, you have been in the state of sleepful fourth state. How many feel this three today morning? Then those of you have been in that sleepful fourth state; no body pain, no thoughts or dreams in the sleep, third, you just know you have been awake whole night; sleepful fourth state. This is the state; if you have been in this state, not only you will not be aging you will be anti aging; you will be growing younger.

Please understand, sleepful waking will stop aging, sleepful dreaming will make you quickly age. If you have spent one day, chronologically three four days of effect will be there on your organs; quickly aging. Sleepful sleeping will neither age nor anti age. It will just be like a regular flow. If you passed one day, you passed one day; that’s all. In the sleepful fourth state, not only you will not be aging you will be anti aging; growing younger. This is what the sidddhas call Tungaamartungi chugam peruvadai kaalam; sleeping without sleeping and having the pleasure; when it will happen to me O Lord!

The understanding technical knowledge about this four state is enough for now. After I finish tomorrow the next states of turiya, four states of fourth state, I will give you techniques, specific techniques, methods, to work on each state. If it needs to be increased increasing, if it needs to be decreased decreasing, if it needs to be just neglected neglecting. I will give you techniques; understanding, techniques and medicine; mani mantra aushada.

Let you all achieve, experience, live, express and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.