Q: Many times dreams are considered to be symbols of future happenings. Is this correct?
I don't think your dream should be symbolizing your future. Your future is not that bad or that low that it can be predicted or planned in your dream! It should be predicted and planned in your waking state.
Understand, if your future is predicted and planned in the waking state you know where you are going. If it is predicted and planned in a dream state, where are you heading! You don't even know where you are heading. I think it is very dangerous. So it is better not to be planning and predicting your future in the dream state.
Maybe now we will enter into the meditation technique. After that, you can individually come and ask the remaining questions, I will answer. Tomorrow we will enter into the session, working on samskaras. Today we had some clarity and understanding about different states we go through everyday. Tomorrow, we will see how our mind works in the different states, how our samskaras or engraved memories function inside us. We will work on that, study that and go through a meditation technique to remove the samskaras.
Now, we will do a very simple meditation technique, just to prepare you and lead you to the fourth state, turiya state.
What is exactly turiya? I was explaining to you, there will be awareness, but there won't be thoughts. So, now, you are supposed to throw away your thoughts, move away from your thinking system to the deepest silence, with awareness.
This technique is basically from Tibetan Buddhism. Of course in Tantra, it was used in the name of Brahmi mantra; in Tibetan Buddhism they call it Maha mantra. Itis a very simple but very powerful technique to go into the awareness with silence. It is going to the thoughtless state with awareness, without thinking but only having the consciousness.
Let me describe the technique. If you can, sit in vajrasana, hands on your knees. If you can't, sit comfortably in the chair. First step: your head, neck and the back should be in a straight line.
Second instruction: close your eyes, not just eyelids. After closing your eyes, stop allowing the movements or visions in your mind. The television of the mind inside you should also be switched off. If you open your eyes you will see the outer world. But if you close your eyes you will see the television inside.
If you just give a little pressure on your eyeballs (through your mind, not through your hands) mentally,… if you just give a little pressure, you will see that the movement in front of your eyes will stop.
Third step: intense humming from your navel center. Understand, the intense humming will stop your mind, the thought flow.
First step is your head, neck and backbone should be in a straight line.
The second step is to close your eyes and stop the pictures moving inside your mind. The third step is intense humming for 21 minutes.
The fourth step is to just sit silently for ten minutes. In the fourth step you will see the thoughtless awareness happening in you. You don't have to do anything, it will be happening in you. You will see deep silence, a settled feeling inside you.
Inner Space - Nithya Dhyaan
DAY 2