Science moves outwards; individuals can move inwards. This inward movement is called meditation. You have to take three simple steps for this inward movement, and the fourth happens on its own accord.
The first step is observing all your activities; that is your body and its acts – walking, eating, exercising etc. Remain a witness. Don’t do it like a robot.
Second, when you have become capable of watching and witnessing your body and its activities, then you can take the second step: watch the activities of your mind – thoughts, dreams, imagination. Just remain a witness, as if you are standing by the side of the road and a procession of thoughts is passing on the road. You are not part of it. You are just a mirror reflecting, without any judgement – because the mirror has no judgement. A beautiful face…the mirror does not say, ‘Great!’ An ugly face…the mirror does not say, ‘my god!’ The mirror simply reflects whatsoever comes before it. Exactly one has to become a pure witness, without any judgement, evaluation, good, bad. Then a strange experience happens as your witnessing grows, thoughts start lessening. In the same proportion, if you have ten percent witnessing, then there are ninety percent thoughts; if you have ninety percent consciousness, awareness, then there are only ten percent thoughts. A hundred percent witness, then there is just pure nothingness. This is the state of no-mind, this is the door to the third and the last step.
Now watch subtle emotions, moods. Thoughts are not so subtle. Moods – a certain shadow of sadness, a certain joy…one is concerned with the body, the second with the mind, the third with the heart.
And when you become capable of watching the third too, the fourth happens on its own accord. Suddenly a quantum leap and you are standing exactly at the very centre of your being, where there is nothing to be aware of. Awareness is aware of itself; consciousness is conscious of itself. And this is the moment of ultimate ecstasy, samadhi, enlightenment, or whatever name one prefers to give it; but this is the ultimate, there is nothing above it. There is no way to go beyond it, because wherever you go beyond it you will still be a witness. If you start witnessing the witness, you have not gone above it; you are still a witness. So, it is the very end of the inner journey, you have come home.
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