Namaste

So this is a little video about something I noticed the other day in meditation. And that is, the different qualities of light in the four states of consciousness. So check this out.

OK, you know there are four states of consciousness: jagrat, where we’re conscious of the world; svapna, dream consciousness; suśupti, deep sleep or the void; and turīya, which is the Self, the transcendental consciousness.

Now as far as jagrat, the light in jagrat is external, and it illuminates reflective objects; and then we perceive those objects by the reflected light. At least the light is apparently external from the point of view of the body. But in svapna, dream consciousness, the light is internal, and the objects in that consciousness are self-luminous. We perceive those objects without any external light source. And if you think back on your dreams or your  daydreams, you’ll see that all those objects are self-luminous.

Now suśupti is the void—in other words there’s no light, and no objects, even if there was light. So you just see nothing: zero, blank. But in turīya—turīya being the Self, is only light. Light is the subject and light is the object. And this means one sees the Self as a nondual object of consciousness.

Now this is extremely amazing. This allows you to distinguish which level of consciousness you’re in during meditation. So just like in jagrat, worldly consciousness, the light appears to be coming from outside, externally. But that whole state of consciousness is enfolded within dream consciousness, svapna. And then we see that the objects that we experience in so-called waking consciousness, are really just projected objects of our dreams. And we have really no separate reality in the so-called world.