Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3

CHAPTER 1
Dropping out of the wheel 1 March 1975 am in Buddha Hall

ALSO, MEDITATE ON KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES DURING SLEEP.
ALSO, MEDITATE ON ANYTHING THAT APPEALS TO YOU.
THUS, THE YOGI BECOMES MASTER OF ALL, FROM THE INFINITESIMAL TO THE INFINITE.

MAN SLEEPS almost one-third of his life, twenty years approximately. But sleep has been
neglected, terribly neglected. Nobody thinks about it, nobody meditates on it. This has happened
because man has paid too much attention to the conscious mind.

Mind has three dimensions. Just as matter has three dimensions, mind also has three dimensions.
Only one dimension is conscious, another dimension is unconscious, and still another dimension
is there which is superconscious. These three dimensions are of the mind – just like the matter,
because deep down mind is also matter. Or, you can say it otherwise, that matter is also mind. It
has to be so, because only one exists.

Mind is subtle matter; matter is gross mind. But ordinarily man lives only in one dimension, the
conscious. Sleep belongs to the unconscious; dreaming belongs to the unconscious. Meditation,
ecstasy, belong to the superconscious, just like waking and thinking belong to the conscious. So,
we have to go slowly into this phenomenon of mind.

The first thing about mind to be remembered is, it is just like an iceberg – the topmost part is on the
surface; you can see it, but it is only one-tenth of the whole. Nine-tenths is hidden underneath. You
cannot see it ordinarily unless you move in the depth. But these are only two dimensions. There isa third dimension – as if a part of the iceberg has evaporated and has become a small cloud and
hovers in the sky. It is difficult to reach to the unconscious; it is almost impossible to reach to that
cloud – of course, part of the same iceberg, but evaporated.

That’s why meditation is so difficult, samadhi so arduous. It takes one’s total energy. It demands
one’s total devotion. Only then does the vertical movement into the cloud-like phenomenon of
the superconscious become possible. The conscious is there; you are listening to me from the
conscious. If you are thinking what I am saying, if you are inside making a sort of dialogue with
whatsoever I am saying, a sort of commentary goes on inside, this is the conscious mind.

But you can listen to me without thinking – in deep love, heart-to-heart, not in any way verbalizing
what I am saying, judging what I am saying, right or wrong, no. No valuation – you simply listen in
deep love, as if the mind has passed, and the heart listens and beats with joy. Then the unconscious
is listening. Then whatsoever I say will go very deep to your roots.

But the third possibility is also there, that you can listen through the superconscious. Then even love
is a disturbance – very subtle, but even love is a disturbance. Then there is nothing, no thought,
no feeling. You simply become a void, an emptiness, end to end. And into that emptiness falls
whatsoever I say and whatsoever I am. Then you are listening from the super-conscious.

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