We all are sleeping day and night

Dreaming about the Dreams!

Every human being sleeps in a deep tunnel of oblivion. His entire life is spent napping. If he doesn't sleep, he will surely observe the sanctity of his surroundings. If he isn't deep asleep, he will be able to see God. An awakened man's experience is akin to that of godliness, but a sleeping man's experience is never as such.
Whenever anyone asks me whether God exists, Then I tell him that this question shows that you are not awake at all. And until you're asleep, there will be no God. This is like a normal man standing in the sun's light with his eyes closed, asking whether the sun exists. Then what will we say to him? Either we will describe him as the sun or we will think that he has closed his eyes, which is why this question has been raised.

The person, even in the presence of sun, keeps his eyes closed, is always full of darkness within himself. And even sun cannot remove this darkness.

Similarly, God, like a sun, is always present around us. As fishes are living in an ocean, similarly we are living with God, always. But still, everytimes this question is raised whether God exist or not? This clearly means that our eyes are closed and we are simply sleeping.

By sleeping means that we are surrounded by various dreams. Our consciousness is always surrounded by dreams, day and night. At night it is as usual, but this is also happening during the day. We are involved in a continous journey toward future in just dreams. Nobody is living in the present. Either we are lost in the memories of our past or weaving the hopes for the imagined future. But nobody lives in present. This is the sleep and this is the dream.

Those who are living in present are awake but those who are in the past as well as in future are said to be sleeping. This is the basic principle of sleeping. Because past is past. It has left the present and just some memories are left behind. Neither these memories are such important nor those which is yet to come. Hence, whose mind is wandering in either past or future is just wandering in a dream and not in the reality. And reality is in present, neither in rear nor in front. There is no other substitute of present and other than present is all unreal, untrue, non-existent. And we are just wandering, our journey takes place in this non-existence. This is the dream, a dreamland and we are sleeping in it.

 
We not only dreams at night but also during the day. During the day, we are so much involved in our work that we become unaware of the cycles of dreams moving within our selves. Just close your eyes and you will see those lines of dreams you're having.

 
At night, there are uncountable number of stars in the sky. During the day, they are not visible. This doesn't mean that they are not present. They are also present during the day, but they are not actually visible. Because sun's light creates a curtain which hides those stars. In the darkness they are visible but in light, they aren't.

 
Similarly, don't ever think as "those dreams at night are just finished in the day and hence i am awake". They are just hiding in the day as those stars in the daylight. Dreams are very alive and their journey is in the progress within ourselves. You are working and also those dreams are present at that very moment. Just try to stop doing your work for a moment and you'll find their presence within you. No one knows what planning is going on inside, what are those imaginations going in there? Noone knows what memories are forming and which hopes are generating for the future. There's a large bubble of dreams germinating within us and this bubble is the source of our laziness, our sleep. And till the time these bubbles are present within humans, he can't see the truth.

 
To see the truth, one has to leave his dreams. To search the truth one has to leave his dreams and nothing else. Hence, it is necessary to leave the sleep and need to be awakened to find the truth.
Hence the first thing is that we have to realize, to know, to understand that we are sleeping. It cannot be realized in a quick way that we are sleeping.

The Audience Effect

Consider yourself seated in an auditorium, witnessing a live performance on stage. Imagine yourself seeing it, listening to it, and feeling every word that the characters on stage say.

Most of the time, we've seen that the first row of audience members seated near the stage is intensely focused on the show. Why?

You guessed correctly. Because the other distractions are little or non-existent. The other people sitting in the same theater are the distractions. Assume that the show is about to end. What will occur?

The audience in the front row will cheer up more than the audience in the rear row. Most of the time, they stand alone to show their respect to individuals sitting in the center or behind the row who are just focusing on the people in front of them and are aware of the audience sitting behind them. This makes them slightly bashful, and as a result, they become too conscious of their surroundings at first.

Udgeet Pranayam

1. Sit anywhere with comfort but
sitting in a cross-leg and straight back position is strongly
recommended.

2. Remember, you've to chant the powerful
mantra 'AUM' in such a way that its sound vibrate your head as well.

3. Speak 'Aaaaa.....' for the first 3 seconds
and then continue ' UuuuMmmmm........'' till
your lungs has the capacity to exhale slowly
and harmoniously.

4. Do it for 5 minutes daily to improve memory
and concentration.

Learn to Concentrate

Dot-on-a-Wall Technique

1. Mark a dot on any wall in your house
with the diameter around 2-cm black.

2. This mark must not be above your
shoulder level.

3. Sit in front of that mark at around
2-meter distance from that mark.

4. Do Udgeet Pranayam 3 times before
this exercise to stabilise your mind.

5. If your eyes starts paining or watering
down then close your eyes and see the
virtual image in your third eye.

Focus-on-Tunnel Technique

1. Sit down in a relaxed posture with
back straighten up.

2. Watch your thought for 2-3 minutes.
This will help you in reducing the
frequency of thought.

3. Now, bring your attention toward your
breathing i.e. concentrate on your nose,
feel the air moving in and out of your
nostrils.

4. Many foreign thoughts will try to irritate
you. You've to just watch them coming
and going. Try not to get distracted by
those thoughts.

NOTE: If you're getting trouble while doing this technique for long time then i recommend you to do the following technique. This technique will indirectly make you feel comfortable for a longer period. The longer your session is, more early the effect becomes visible.

'Mind the Couples' Technique!

In-Out breath

1. Sit down in a relaxed posture with
   back straighten up.
2. If you think that mind is wandering higher than before, then just do Udgeet pranayam for 3 times.
3. Now, slowly bring your attention toward your nose and then slowly toward your breathing. You'll observe that air is going in and out of your nostril.
4. Just count the couples. Means consider in-out both as '1' then another in-out as '2' and so on.
5. Watch this for atleast 10 minutes for first week (i.e. 7 days). Count how many couples of in-out breath you've taken in these 10 minutes.