Darkness is Source of Knowledge

2 years ago By Yogi Anoop

Darkness is Your Gate To Knowledge

Which is one element found in abundance in the brain? Thoughts fill up the mind to a great extent, isn't it? Thoughts arise when the objects received from the five senses enter the consciousness. Sometimes, the mind gets so full of thoughts that a person thinks that the head will burst with it. After a point, negative thoughts begin to plague the mind. Even positive thoughts can have an exhaustive impact on the mind. 

For example, if a person sees only good dreams every day, then his sleep cannot be complete, he will feel tired when he wakes up in the morning. That is because the brain function was going on at night.

Usually, a person is always confused between the negative and the positivity. People are usually either busy praising other people or picking faults in them. 

It is worth noting that when the mind is entangled in the positive and negative aspects of events, then it cannot get knowledge. Because living in these conflicts, he takes decisions and sees the world through this lens. Knowledge is attained; he detaches himself from both these and the reactions of both. 

Let us consider this example: 

Darkness means sleep, some people call it extreme tamasikta, some give it the name of laziness, some people call it ignorance. For some, it is an infinite source of peace. Note that in this darkness and sleep, there is tamasikta as well as sattvikta. But the common man is not able to get knowledge from it. They are stuck only in good and bad.

Thousands of years ago, sages discovered meditation and samadhi from this sleep. They must have guessed the thoughtless state from sleep. Sleep is such an experience that after waking up from slumber one feels peaceful. The sages experimented a lot to replicate the state of sleep in the awake state. Sleep was just a medium to discover the state of samadhi and dhyan.

The subconscious wants that for some time everything should be removed from it, that everything should reach a state of zero. Sleep indicates the same thing. Sleep tells that the conscience wants to go beyond thoughts.

After years, a person becomes plagued by the train of thoughts to an extent that getting out of that quicksand becomes increasingly difficult. A normal person does not try to achieve sleep in an awake state. He just wants to get sleep in some way or the other, albeit with medicine. If there is deep sleep, then there is happiness, if there is bad sleep, then there is sorrow. He is relentlessly stuck in this loop and never tries to know that depth by going inside that sleep.

Remember:  

• Try to feel the darkness in the night. The effort should be to experience that thoughtless state by staying awake.

• There are objects in the world but darkness tells us to forget them, remove them from the mind and be thoughtless.

• The objects and the world cannot be destroyed. Close your mouth, your senses and everything will deem unimportant to you even if it exists. Everything will become zero.

• The world is not at fault, there is no attraction in the world, the centre of attraction is in the person, the attraction is in those who are wise, those who have understanding. If there is no understanding in the world, then where will the attraction come in them? There is definitely power in that. The sun has power but no knowledge. The knowledge is in us.

• Darkness is just the nature of nature, man is attracted to it because he wants emptiness. That emptiness is his spiritual and mental hunger, if that hunger is not quenched, it results in terrible diseases in the body. Dhyan, yog and sadhna are the only organic, positive ways to reach a state of fulfilling emptiness. 

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