Darkness - the rejuvenating energy
We originate from the darkness of the mother's womb, get rejuvenated every day in darkness when we fall into deep sleep, and ultimately, we disappear also into darkness. Darkness is energy. In Vedic tradition, Mother Kali is represented as dark energy. Kali in Sanskrit means darkness.
Each and every one of us by our own nature has a layer of darkness around us. This body is called etheric body.
We should understand what exactly happens when we fall into deep sleep.
Whenever your body needs rest automatically the mind is pulled down and inserted into the etheric body. It is like a cell; when it is discharged, that cell is taken out and is inserted into the recharger. There is a particular time for recharging.
Same way, after your excitement, after your enjoyment, the mind will be automatically pulled because it needs a rest, and it will be inserted in the etheric body.
Now, in the etheric body, you are in darkness, but you don't want to rest in the darkness. So what do you want to do? Continuously you want to jump around.
When you fight with the darkness, when you don't want to rest in the darkness until you get recharged for that recharging period of half an hour or one hour, you create side effects which are called depression and worry.
Actually, depression is a natural phenomenon which is supposed to happen, which gives you the rest. Nature gives you rest to get back your energy. If you really get depressed, you can really get excited.
Please understand: A man who can't get depressed can never get excited. If you know how to travel with the low mood, low current, then you will know how to fly with the high mood. If you don't know how to travel with the low current, low mood, you will never be able to go to the peak of the high mood also.
Darkness is the etheric body, darkness is the place where you get rejuvenated. Darkness is the layer actually from which you receive energy. Why sleep so totally refreshes your body is because you are actually inserted into the etheric body, into the darkness.
Two things happen when you cooperate with the darkness, one is you don't resist the depression. You don't create depression at all.
Be very clear: depression can never depress you if you simply depress the depression. As long as you resist it, it is depression. When you allow it, it is rest, it is a deep rest. It is just that you are with yourself. If you don't want to be there, but you are being pulled into it, then you fight with it. Then you name it depression, worry suffering, everything.
You must have seen in your life: when you are in the office, suddenly you get a call to come home immediately. Simply you obey the order, right? Then you don't not have any problem. Same way just know how to travel with the depression, with the darkness.
You see, whenever you have a weekend you just go around and enjoy everything,
When everything is over and you come to the house, or when you get up the next day, your body and mind will have the hangover. It will feel like as if it wants to rest, it doesn't want to move anywhere. It just wants to lie down, your mind doesn't want to work, but what do you do? You forcibly enjoy something more. You forcibly say, let us enjoy something more.