Day 10 - Witness

40 Day Meditation Retreat 2007 with Sri Vasudeva
"Be Wise in Action"
Day 10 - Wednesday April 4, 2007
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Here we see the idea of different states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, deep sleeping. In these states we can experience a limited consciousness, especially so when we see how we are in the waking state or even the dreaming state. But the possibility of a fourth state of awareness exists, and this is the witness but it is a rapturous witness. It is a witness that is existing in all the other states.

If every day and in every way in your conscious and even dreaming moments, you challenge yourself to observe, you can be aware of this witness inside of you. Try to see if you can get into that space where things become effortless, or what we called yesterday "the zone". How can I be in harmony with everything around me? How can I be aware of the harmony where the doing or the effort becomes easy?

The idea of witnessing is not just to look and observe, but of going into the space where the effortlessness begins. If you are singing, for example, can you begin to witness yourself sing? Witness what the music is doing? Sometimes you might see when your body sways in a natural way to the music, that you will begin to get some of the effects. When you watch how you sing you may see how the song is coming in an effortless way from inside. But the idea is that when you touch the real thing, there is the sense of rapture, the joy. Turya bhoga sambhavah -- the rapturous state of the "I" abides, exists.

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