61. AS WAVES COME WITH WATER AND FLAMES WITH FIRE, SO THE UNIVERSAL WAVES WITH US.

Sri Aurobindo says somewhere that the whole life is yoga - and it is so. Any act can become meditative, and once you know how an act becomes meditative you can transform all your acts into meditation. Then the whole life becomes yoga.

The wave appears; it is there in a sense, but still it is not there in a deeper sense. In a deeper sense only the ocean is. We are just waves in a cosmic ocean. Only the formless is eternal. Just be real and be in bliss.

62. WHEREVER YOUR MIND IS WANDERING, INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY, AT THIS VERY PLACE, THIS.

This mind is the door - this very mind. Wherever it is wandering, whatsoever it is thinking, contemplating, dreaming; this very mind, this very moment, is the door.

The ordinary mind is not so ordinary as we think. The ordinary mind is not unrelated to the universal mind: it is part of it. Its roots go down to the very center of existence; otherwise you cannot be.

Suddenly, just change focus from the clouds to the sky.

63. WHEN VIVIDLY AWARE THROUGH SOME PARTICULAR SENSE, KEEP IN THE AWARENESS.

Eyes cannot see; you see through your eyes. The seer is hidden behind, the eyes are just the opening, just the windows.

Once you have the art of standing always alert behind your senses, the senses cannot deceive you. In a world which is just an appearance, they have deceived you to feel it as real. If you can look through the senses and remain alert, the world will by and by appear to you as illusory, dream-like, and you will be able to penetrate to the substance, the BRAHMAN.

64. AT THE START OF SNEEZING, DURING FRIGHT, IN ANXIETY, ABOVE A CHASM, FLYING IN BATTLE, IN EXTREME CURIOSITY, AT THE BEGINNING OF HUNGER, AT THE END OF HUNGER, BE UNINTERRUPTEDLY AWARE.

That which is to be achieved you are already. You have only to discover, uncover, unfold that which is already the case; hence, both the difficulty of spiritual endeavor and the simplicity. SANSARA and NIRVANA, the world and the liberated state of consciousness, are not two things - just two attitudes, just two choices.

It is easy. Once absolute bliss is achieved, you will laugh about it. Once it is known, you will not be able to understand why you were missing it, how you could miss it. It was there always just waiting to be looked at, and it was yours.

All of these methods are told by someone who has achieved - remember this. They will look too simple and the ego does not like simple things. Nevertheless, right now, here, this very moment, you can achieve all that is possible to human beings.

Death is sudden; SAMADHI is also sudden. Spiritual explosion is also sudden. It is like death. It is more like death than it is like life; it is sudden. It can happen at any moment. If you are ready, these techniques can be of help. They will not bring it gradually; really, they will gradually bring you to be ready for the sudden happening. These techniques are not techniques for SAMADHI; they are techniques to prepare you for whenever SAMADHI happens.

For instance, the energy that was going to be released through a sneeze, when you are alert, where does it move? It moves to your alertness. Suddenly there is a flash, a lightning. You become more alert. In that flash, in that lightning, even enlightenment is possible. Suddenly, there is consciousness without thought; silence and stillness while fully awake.

65. THE PURITY OF OTHER TEACHINGS IS AN IMPURITY TO US. IN REALITY, KNOW NOTHING AS PURE OR IMPURE.

Tantra is not concerned with morality or immorality; to tantra these distinctions are absolutely irrelevant. Tantra says, existence is non-dual, it is one, and all distinctions are man-created. Tantra says that the fact is real and the interpretation is unreal. Purity and impurity are our attitudes imposed on reality.

Look at the world, but don't say what it is. Don't label, remain silent, non-condemnatory, nonjustifying. If you can remain silent about the world, by and by this silence will penetrate within.

66. BE THE UNSAME SAME TO FRIEND AS TO STRANGER, IN HONOR AND DISHONOR.

Existence is one. If you approach it through analysis, it appears material, dead. If you approach it through participation, it appears as life, as divine, as consciousness. The periphery is all change, but the center is absolutely changeless. Take a look.

First look at your friend as a stranger; only then you can look at the stranger as at the friend. Look at your wife: do you really know her? Does she know you? Even you don't know you.

67. HERE IS THE SPHERE OF CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE. THROUGH CHANGE CONSUME CHANGE.

Allow all the change; float and relax in all the change. When you are relaxed, then the changing background gives you contrast, and through it you can feel the non-changing.

68. AS A HEN MOTHERS HER CHICKS, MOTHER PARTICULAR KNOWINGS, PARTICULAR DOINGS, IN REALITY.

When you live in your dreams, dreams become barriers. Reality is not a dream. It is there, you are surrounded by it everywhere. Inside and outside, it is there - you cannot miss it - but you are dreaming. You can go on finding ways and means how to come to reality, but you will be trying that too through your dreaming mind. Dreaming must cease, because dreaming cannot be used to know reality.

Look directly, hear directly and touch directly. Don't bring your past mind in. Dreams are created by your past mind. Don't allow the past to come in and then don't allow the future either.

Don't allow words to exist between you and reality. Look directly at things as they are. Don't project, don't interpret, don't force your mind upon things. Allow the reality to assert itself, whatsoever it is. Allow a gap. Between two illusions, allow a gap. Allow an interval so the reality can be seen.

Dreaming is a substitute for reality. If you cannot get whatsoever you desire in reality, then you start dreaming. Study your desiring; be aware and observe it. The more you observe it, the more it will disappear.

Don't mother dreams. No painted smiles. Live in the present and don't cherish hopes, whatsoever their nature. If life is hopeless, be hopeless. Accept it, and don't cling to any future event.

This sutra says throw the scriptures away. Mother only your real knowings. Then, you will be real.

69. SINCE, IN TRUTH, BONDAGE AND FREEDOM ARE RELATIVE, THESE WORDS ARE ONLY FOR THOSE TERRIFIED WITH THE UNIVERSE. THIS UNIVERSE IS A REFLECTION OF MINDS. AS YOU SEE MANY SUNS IN WATER FROM ONE SUN, SO SEE BONDAGE AND LIBERATION.

Zen is based on this very deep technique. The world and NIRVANA are not two things, they are one; heaven and hell are not two things, they are one; bondage and liberation are not two things, they are one. All opposites are related; they are degrees of the same phenomenon. Tantra says that you have to be liberated not only from bondage; you have to be liberated from MOKSHA also.

If you are ill then you long for health. That longing for health is part of your illness. If you are really healthy, you will not long for health.

You cannot desire liberation. Desire is bondage. When desire ceases, liberation is.

70. CONSIDER YOUR ESSENCE AS LIGHT RAYS FROM CENTER TO CENTER UP THE VERTEBRAE, AND SO RISES "LIVINGNESS" IN YOU.

Many yoga methods are based on this. The vertebrae, the spine, is the base of both your body and mind. Your mind, your head, is the end part of your spine. If your spine is alive, you will have a very brilliant mind. The whole yoga tries in many ways to make your spine alive, brilliant, filled with light, young and fresh.

The spine has two ends: the beginning is the sex center and the end is SAHASRARA, the seventh center at the top of the head. From the beginning center in your spine you are in contact with nature; from the last center, SAHASRAR, in the head, you are in contact with the divine.

Imagine yourself as life. In the beginning it is imagination, but it is reality also because everything consists of light. YOU are light! Imagine first that you are just light rays; then move your imagination to the sex center. Concentrate your attention there and feel that light rays are rising upwards from the sex center, as if the sex center has become a source of light and light rays are moving in an upsurge. Rise it up one chakra at a time. Feel the warm life. Create sensitivity and feeling by practice.

Whenever you do this experiment, don't leave it in the middle. You have to complete it. Take care that no one disturbs you. If you leave this energy somewhere in the middle, it can be harmful. It has to be released. So bring it to the head and feel as if your head has become a showering opening.

Just conceive of the lotus with a thousand petals, opened, and from every petal this light energy is moving into the cosmos. Again, this is a love act - not with nature as at the bottom of the spine, but with the ultimate. Again, it is an orgasm.

When the energy comes to the head, you will feel dizzy. Sometimes you may even feel nausea because for the first time energy has come to the head and your head is not acquainted with it. It has to become tuned. So don't become afraid. Sometimes you may immediately become unconscious, but don't be afraid. This happens. If so much energy moves suddenly and explodes in the head, you may become unconscious. But that unconsciousness cannot remain for more than forty-eight minutes. Within this time, the energy automatically falls back or is released. If you do become unconscious, it is okay. After that unconsciousness you will feel so fresh that it is as if you have been in sleep for the first time, in the deepest sleep. Yoga calls it by a special name - YOGA TANDRA: yogic sleep. It is very deep; you move to your deepest center.

71. OR IN THE SPACES BETWEEN, FEEL THIS AS LIGHTNING.

This is a very similar method with a slight difference: Between one center and another, as rays are coming, you can feel it like lightning - just a jump of light. There really is no gradual step-by-step growth. Light is a jump.

With lightning you may feel such hotness that it may seem unbearable. If you feel that, don't try it. Do the prior method. If you are at ease, then it is good.

72. FEEL THE COSMOS AS A TRANSLUCENT EVER-LIVING PRESENCE.

This technique is based on inner sensitivity. First grow in sensitivity. Just close your doors, make the room dark and light a small candle. Sit near the candle with a very loving attitude - rather, with a prayerful attitude. With a loving attitude, with the whole world closed out, with total concentration, with a feeling heart, just go on looking at the candle and the flame. Even if tears start flowing, go on looking at it. Those tears will help your eyes to be more fresh.

Feel the presence of the ever-living existence. If you feel the whole world as filled with life, light, then you are changing your body chemistry. If this method is done for three months, you will be living in a different world.

73. IN SUMMER WHEN YOU SEE THE ENTIRE SKY ENDLESSLY CLEAR ENTER SUCH CLARITY.

This technique - to look into the clarity of the sky and to become one with it - is one of the most practised techniques. Many traditions have used this.

Mind is crowded confusion. There is no such thing as a clear mind. No-mind, on the other hand, is clear consciousness. Your consciousness is just like the sky and your mind is just like the clouds. The sky remains untouched by the clouds. Without thought, unfocus on the clouds and focus on the sky.

Without thought, without blinking, stare into the clear blue sky. Just be passive and remain under the sky - vulnerable, open, feminine, with no aggression on your part - and then the sky will penetrate you. After 40 minutes, and only when you really feel that the sky has entered you, then you can close your eyes and remain in the sky within.

74. SHAKTI, SEE ALL SPACE AS IF ALREADY ABSORBED IN YOUR OWN HEAD IN THE BRILLIANCE.

Close your eyes for this technique. When you do it, close your eyes and feel as if the whole space is absorbed in your own head. is one of the advanced techniques, so it will be good to proceed towards it in steps.

First, for three days: while going to sleep, when just ready to sleep, lie down on your bed, close your eyes and feel where your feet are. Then, imagine that you have become six inches longer.

Then the second step, for three more days: feel also your head, where it is, just inside, and then feel that your head has also become six inches longer. When you can feel this, everything will be easy. Then you make it more. You feel that you have become twelve feet all; or, that you have filled the whole room.

After these six days are up, then you can close your eyes and feel that the whole sky, the whole space, is absorbed by your head. The moment you can feel this, the mind disappears, because the mind needs a very narrow, limited space. In such vastness mind is impossible.

Suddenly, one day, the mind explodes and the space is there. Within a three month period you can feel this. Your whole life will be different. But grow towards it in steps, because sometimes through this technique people become crazy.

For this technique it is good to be with someone: to be with a teacher, or to be with a friend. Don't do it alone. Someone must be there to take care of you, to watch you. This is a school method. Where many people are working in a school, it is very easy, less harmful, less dangerous -- because sometimes when the sky explodes within, for many days you may not become aware of your body.

75. WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, KNOW YOU AS LIGHT.

Waking, sleeping, dreaming are all not the divisions of your consciousness; these are the divisions of your mind - these are the clouds - a waking cloud, a sleeping cloud, a dreaming cloud. Consciousness, the sky in which they move, (turiya), is the fourth.

While waking - moving, eating, working - remember yourself as light.

The second step is to take it into dreaming. Perhaps after three months or so, while falling asleep, go on thinking of the flame, go on seeing it, feeling that you are the light. By and by, in the dreams also you will move with the same feeling. And once this feeling enters the dreams, dreams will start disappearing. There will be less and less dreams and more and more deep sleep.

Only when dreams disappear can you carry this feeling into sleep. Now you are at the door and soon the sleep will happen only to your body, not to you

76. IN RAIN DURING A BLACK NIGHT ENTER THAT BLACKNESS AS THE FORM OF FORMS.

The Essenes are the only group all over the world who thinks of God as absolute darkness. Darkness is eternal. Light comes and goes and darkness remains.

Do one thing as a preliminary step: sit in darkness, put off the lights, feel and befriend and remain with darkness and be unafraid. With eyes open, stare into the blackness.

Darkness is the mother, the womb, so lie down and feel that you are lying in the womb of your mother. Carry a patch of this darkness with you throughout the day.

77. WHEN A MOONLESS RAINY NIGHT IS NOT PRESENT, CLOSE EYES AND FIND BLACKNESS BEFORE YOU. OPENING EYES, SEE BLACKNESS. SO FAULTS DISAPPEAR FOREVER.

First close your eyes, see blackness. Then open the eyes, and the blackness that you have seen within, see it without. If it disappears without, that means that your blackness that you have seen within was false. This is a little bit more difficult. In the first you carry the real darkness within. In the second you carry the false out - go on carrying it. The day you can carry the inner darkness out, you have come upon the inner real darkness. When you can bring the inner darkness outside, faults disappear forever, because if the inner darkness is felt, you have become so so silent, so unexcitable, that faults cannot remain with you.

78. WHEREVER YOUR ATTENTION ALIGHTS, AT THIS VERY POINT, EXPERIENCE.

Develop with practice a sort of attentive attitude, only then will this technique become possible, so then wherever your attention alights you can experience yourself. Look at a flower, or anything, with no thought; simply look.

Eventually, you will experience the experiencer; you will fall back to yourself. From everywhere you will be rebounded; from everywhere you will be reflected. The whole existence will become a mirror; you will be reflected everywhere.

79. FOCUS ON FIRE RISING THROUGH YOUR FORM FROM THE TOES UP UNTIL THE BODY BURNS TO ASHES BUT NOT YOU.

Right now, you can observe the fact that if you are silent, totally alert, you are there, but with no feeling of `I'. The presence is there, the consciousness is there, but there is no one who can say `I am'. Ego is identification with mind and the mind is never here, it is never now. When you are silent, the ego is not.

The mind cam be used as an instrument - just don't identify with it. If you can be aware of the reality here and now, you will remain always transcendental to the mind.

Just lie down. First conceive of yourself as dead; the body is just like a corpse. Lie down, and then bring your attention to the toes. With closed eyes move inwards. Bring your attention to the toes and feel that the fire is rising from there upwards, everything is being burned. As the fire rises, your body is disappearing. Start from the toes and move upwards. Just go on seeing that the body has become ashes and only the witness, You, remain.

80. MEDITATE ON THE MAKE-BELIEVE WORLD AS BURNING TO ASHES AND BECOME BEING ABOVE HUMANS.

If you can come to imagine that your body is burning, it is not difficult to imagine that the whole world is burning - because your body is the world, and through your body you are related to the world. Still, you remain.

81. AS SUBJECTIVELY, LETTERS FLOW INTO WORDS AND WORDS INTO SENTENCES, AND AS, OBJECTIVELY, CIRCLES FLOW INTO WORLDS AND WORLDS INTO PRINCIPLES, FIND AT LAST THESE CONVERGING IN OUR BEING.

Those who want to enter deeper realms of life must be ready to be insecure, must be ready to be in danger, must be ready to move into the unknown, and must not try in any way to fix the future. Insecurity is alive and beautiful. This technique is possible if you are vulnerable, open, not afraid, because this technique is allowing the whole universe to enter in you.

In that openness where the whole existence is converging in you, you cannot exist as an 'I'. You will exist as an open space, but not as a crystallized 'I'. The whole art of religion is how not to be, how to dissolve, how to surrender, how to become an open space.

82. FEEL: MY THOUGHT, I-NESS, INTERNAL ORGANS - ME.

Only YOU think about your ego, no one else. Only you think that your ego is enthroned; for everyone else it is not so. No one agrees with your ego except you; everyone else is against it. But you go on living in a dream, in a delusion. You create your own image. You feel that image, you protect that image, and you think the whole world exists for it. This is a delirium, a madness.

Reality cannot support anything which is not, and your ego is the most impossible thing, the greatest falsity. It is not there; it is your creation, your imaginative creation. The ego is the only barrier to reality.

Close your eyes and feel a thought. A continuous flow of thoughts are there, a continuum, a flux; a river of thoughts is flowing. Feel these thoughts, feel their presence. And the more you feel, the more will be revealed to you - layers upon layers.

The more you feel, the less will it be possible for you to say that they are yours. They are all borrowed, they are all from the outside.

Only the inner silence is yours. No one has given it to you. You were born with it, and you will die with it.

83. BEFORE DESIRE AND BEFORE KNOWING, HOW CAN I SAY I AM? CONSIDER. DISSOLVE IN THE BEAUTY.

Buddha used to say that when a thought arises, note down that a thought is arising. When a desire arises, take note of it. it disappears, again note that now that desire has disappeared, and you will feel a distance from the desire, from the thought.

When you can consider that a desire has arisen and a desire has gone and you have remained in the gap and the desire has not disturbed you - consider this movement of desire and movement of thought but no movement in you. This interval is beautiful. Dissolve in that interval. Fall in the gap and be the gap. It is the deepest experience of beauty. And not only of beauty, but of good and of truth also. In the gap you are.

84. TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE, REALIZING I AM EVERYWHERE. ONE WHO IS EVERYWHERE IS JOYOUS.

There is a deep attachment to the body - it is bound to be. You have been living in the body for many, many lives, from the very beginning. Bodies have changed, but you were always with a body. This has been so long, so continuous, that you have forgotten that you are different from it. Realize well that you don't know yourself as anything other than the body. Allow your attachment with the body to be revealed in its totality.

When the attachment is fully revealed, drop the attachment and you will realize that you are everywhere. It was not the body which was limiting you; it was your attachment to it. You could also say that you are nowhere - this is equally true, but you can't say that you are somewhere. You are not in the dimensions of time or space. Consciousness exists without any location and there is no limit to your joy or freedom.

85. THINKING NO THING WILL LIMITED-SELF UNLIMIT.

Again, if there is no object to your attention, you are nowhere; or, you are everywhere and you are free. Actually, the mind is just the inner layer of the body and you need not be limited by body or mind. Realize that thoughts are not bridges, but barriers between you and existence. In the silence there is only One.

86. SUPPOSE YOU CONTEMPLATE SOMETHING, BEYOND PERCEPTION, BEYOND GRASPING, BEYOND NOT BEING - YOU.

Tantra is not a struggle technique, it is a transcendence technique. Tantra says you cannot reach the one by fighting through duality. Tantra is in the present. Really, tantra is about choiceless witnessing.

This quite fundamental sutra indicates that when the screen is simply there without any image, you can become aware of yourself.

The whole technique of the Upanishads is condensed in two words; NETI, NETI - not this, not this. Whatsoever comes to the mind, say, `Not this.' When emptiness is there, something happens.

87. I AM EXISTING. THIS IS MINE. THIS IS THIS. OH BELOVED, EVEN IN SUCH KNOW ILLIMITABLY.

You are existing - dig deep into this phenomenon. Feel it, don't think it.

When you get grounded within yourself, there is no society, there is no one. You alone exist. Mind disappears.

Nothing exists except this moment. Bliss happens. If you can feel yourself rooted in existence, merged in it, overflowing with it, and allow even dancing with it, then you will feel, `This is mine. This existence belongs to me. This whole mysterious universe belongs to me. This whole existence has been existing for me. It has created me. I am a flower of it.' This consciousness that has happened to you is the greatest flower that has happened to the universe. And for millions and millions of years this earth was preparing for you to exist. When you are rooted, you are one with the whole, and the existence exists for you. You are not a beggar; you become an emperor. Actually, you simply are - you never begin, you are never going to end.

88. EACH THING IS PERCEIVED THROUGH KNOWING. THE SELF SHINES IN SPACE THROUGH KNOWING. PERCEIVE ONE BEING AS KNOWER AND KNOWN.

Unless we feel it as an emergency, a deep crisis, we tend not do anything. But the house is on fire. Death is staring us in the face every moment of existence. The only way to escape is to wake up.

Knowledge of anything reveals three things: the knowing, the known and the knower. All the techniques of meditation are to reveal the knower. George Gurdjieff called it self-remembering. He said that whenever you are knowing something, always remember the knower.

Buddha called this technique samyak smriti - right-mindfulness. Don't leave the world of the objects. Rather, try to become aware of both the subject and the object simultaneously, the outer and the inner simultaneously. When you are aware of both the known and the knower, suddenly you realize you are neither - you are the non-identified witness - very minute, very small, yet atomic.

89. BELOVED, AT THIS MOMENT LET, MIND, KNOWING, BREATH, FORM, BE INCLUDED.

Swami Ramteerth used this technique. Include everything in your being and don't discard anything; then, there is no self, there is no ego; only consciousness remains and ultimately the whole universe becomes inclusive to you.

90. TOUCHING EYEBALLS AS A FEATHER, LIGHTNESS BETWEEN THEM OPENS INTO HEART AND THERE PERMEATES THE COSMOS.

Whenever you are bored, this technique will immediately refresh you. Whenever you are tired, it will immediately revitalize you. Anyone can do it.

Use both your palms, put them on your eyes, and allow the palms to touch the eyeballs - but just like a feather, with no pressure. When you touch and don't press, your thoughts will stop immediately. When the eyes are silent, relaxed, and the energy is moving backwards, thoughts will stop. You will feel a certain quality of euphoria, and that will deepen daily.

So do it many times in the day. Even for a single moment, touching will be good. To make it a meditation, then do it for at least forty minutes. And the whole thing is not to press. Your hand should just be a feather, a weightless thing, simply touching. Your mind will be totally there, alert, near the eyes, and the energy will be flowing constantly. In the beginning it will be just dropping in drops. Within months you will feel it has become a river-like thing, and within a year you will feel it has become a flood.

This lightness between the two eyes will start dropping into the heart, and the heart will open to receive it. You will be washed completely, washed away. You will not feel that you are. You will feel simply the cosmos is.