Causal Layer and Deep Sleep
The fifth layer is the layer you experience in deep sleep. Even though there are engrams in this layer, you cannot do anything about them, because in the deep sleep, your mind cannot do anything. It is an unconscious layer.
In the first four layers, if you can reduce the depth of the engrams, samskaras, the fifth layer and the sixth layer will be cleansed naturally. The fifth layer will be cleansed if you clean the first four layers. If the fifth layer is cleansed, you will start experiencing the sixth layer more and more. The sixth layer is the meditation layer.
If you are getting into the deep sleep layer more easily, it means the first four layers are clean. If the first four layers are not clean, then you will suffer more in the fifth layer. That is why, when you have more stress and load, a lot of suffering related to sleep starts happening in life.
Sleep has become a big problem. Now, especially in the developed countries, I am seeing, they are able to get beds but not sleep! Their infrastructure has created the facility to have beds and different temperatures, different comforts and so many other things, but not sleep, because there is too much stress.
Not only that, if the engrams in the first four layers are too many, in the fifth layer, the relationship between you and your body gets disconnected. Reducing the engrams in the first four layers is making friends with your body.
We don't realize how we are abusing the body. Understand, if you are overweight, it is directly connected to some of these engrams. When you feel emptiness inside, lonely, you start filling it. You start filling it with food or by drinking. Usually women choose food. And men decide on drinking. Of course, in the modern developed society, you can't generalize! When you are feeling empty and lonely, you have to fill yourself with something.
Every single thing happening in your life is directly connected to some engrams. Removing these engrams, I can say, is making friends with your body, creating a deep friendship with your body. This is the best way to heal.
The other day, I received a big letter and a report from one of our devotees in USA. She came to our program around two years ago. Of course, she did the same meditation which we are going to do now. She had a tumor in the muladhara chakra, root center. She had surgery three times. She herself is a doctor. But again and again, the tumor was growing in the same place. She came and she was doing this meditation which we are going to do today. And she was weeping uncontrollably. I tried to tell her, 'Please relax'. But it was uncontrollable. Anyhow, after the meditation, I asked her, 'What is the problem?' She said, 'I suddenly again re-lived the guilt'. At a young age, she had been physically abused by some of her close relatives. She said, 'Suddenly that samskara opened up, that guilt opened up. I re-lived it. That's the reason I was not able to control. Please forgive me Swamiji!' I said, 'That's ok. Let it leave your system.'
Re-living is Relieving
Re-living is relieving. Understand, consciously re-living is relieving. And this lady said, 'After that relieving, after that meditation, within a month, the tumor disappeared and never came back. Now at least one and half years are over, it did not come back.' Relieving the guilt, releasing all the samskaras heals. It is shocking but the guilt which she created in her young age not only evolved as a hatred towards that person, it had also evolved as a hatred towards herself and that part of her body! So the hatred had become tumor and sickness. When that engram was released, the guilt was released, when the guilt had left her system, suddenly she came back to health.
We store so many pains and sufferings, so many physical and mental illnesses in our system in the form of some engram or the other. Not only diseases, even disorders like obesity or other disorders are also directly connected to some of our engrams.
Working on the engrams of the first four layers and re-living them and relieving them will heal your system very powerfully.
Understand, it is a strong technique. It is at least 100 times more powerful than any yoga or kriya you can do.
No doubt yoga or kriya heals, but it takes its own time. But meditation is like directly attacking the root center, the root cause of suffering. Yoga starts working on your physical body, exhausts all the tamasic engrams and heals you. Kriyas, the breathing techniques, start working on your pranic layer, the second layer and release the desire engrams, reduce the stress and start healing. But the meditation technique can work up to the fourth layer. The meditation technique straightaway works up to the fourth layer and heals you. That is why it is so powerful.
But for the technique to work on you, you need complete involvement and interest. You need to put your whole attention and awareness into the technique. If you can go into it and come out, you will see miracles happening inside you.