TECHNIQUE 3: DARKNESS MEDITATION
This technique has been taken from the Shiva Sutras
First Step
Close your eyes.
Second Step
Second important step is closing the inside movement. We all know how to close our eyelids but not eyes. Closing eyes is different, closing eyelids is different. Closing eyes itself is different, but it is closing completely inside also. Usually, when you close your eyes, many things you will start seein.g on your inside TV. It will never be switched off. Constantly it will be going on. With open eyes you see outside but with closed eyes you see inside. That is the problem,
Close your eyes and completely stop inside. You will see intense darkness out of which you are born. See the darkness which was there in your mother's womb. It is the same darkness which you are still carrying in your inner space. One piece has come inside you. That is what we call life, it is the cosmic energy, ether which is there in your mother's womb. Out of cosmos the whole world came, one bit of cosmos energy is in your mother's womb out of which you came. When you came that one part from your mother's womb is already put in your inner space and that is there. When you close your eyes and stop seeing inside then you will see the intense darkness. Just be with that intense darkness at least for half an hour. When your mind wanders here and there, come back, get centered. Be with that darkness.
The dark room if you sit and close your eyes, you will be able to see darkness intensely inside means, you cannot allow thoughts moving inside. Thoughts are light. If the light movement or color change is stopped inside then you will see only darkness and thoughtlessness. Color of thoughtlessness is darkness. Color of no mind is darkness. From no mind, thoughts come. Same way from black color all other color comes. From darkness all other colors are coming. Color of thoughtlessness is darkness. Bring yourself to the thoughtless state. This means the intense darkness. Sit with the intense darkness for few moments.
Third Step
After half an hour, open your eyes and bring that same darkness outside. This needs little training. It means with open eyes, seeing same scene which you saw inside, the darkness. See the same thing with intensity. This may take some practice. But if you can see he same darkness inside and outside, you will be able to switch off your mind whenever you want. The ability to switch off your mind whenever you need, liberates you from all problems, disorders related to mind such as insomnia, depression, over sleeping. All problems related to causal bodies will be completely healed. See the darkness inside and outside. You will see so much of healing happening inside.
By opening eyes, see the same darkness outside. It is little tricky. Seeing darkness with closed eyes may be easy. Seeing the same intense darkness with open eyes may be little difficult. You may have to train yourself, maybe for a month. It may take you a month to have that same darkness outside. You need to continuously throw that darkness out. Throw that darkness out. Means you need to bring that darkness outside. Visualize the darkness which is inside you is coming outside.
Meditating on darkness will bring you to the silence. No mind state. The darkness carries its own intensity. Meditating on darkness and resting in darkness is such powerful energy.
First thing don't be afraid of darkness. Second thing feel very friendly, connected to darkness. Darkness is the whole out of which things are created. Meditate on that intense darkness energy. Whether you want or not, everyday, you will fall into the darkness at least 3-4 hours in the deep sleep. If you sleep 8 hours, at least 4 hours in deep sleep. What you are experiencing in the deep sleep, same thing I am asking you to experience with consciousness. With consciousness, you are supposed to experience the same darkness.
Experience the same state which you are experiencing in the deep sleep, with consciousness with awareness. Experience the same silence, same rest, the same peace with awareness. In the deep sleep you have rest but not awareness. With this meditation it is like having the deep sleep with awareness, the restful awareness. Actually, with deep sleep and samadhi, there is only one difference. In deep sleep you don't remember you exist. In samadhi you remember you exist, that is all. If you can add this one quality that you exist into the deep sleep then you are enlightened. Straightaway you are enlightened. Nothing else needs to be done. Nothing else is required.
The darkness, feeling connected to it is such a powerful thing. It can completely heal you and unlock the Swadishtana chakra or the Being energy center.
EGO: Who are you?