If awareness is the light, silence is the night. Explain.

If awareness is the light, silence is the night.

Explain.

The sun comes out and exposes the duality for us every day.

The night falls, turning all the dualities into a non-dual state of darkness.

Whether it is a million-dollar Picasso painting, a Kohinoor Diamond, or a begging bowl of a beggar, they all get equalized in the darkness of the night.

Day divides, night assimilates.

Awareness is the light that plays in the dual world, but the inner silence ( Shunyata) is where all dualities become homogenized, and “no-thing” remains.

The cycle of days with their dualities and nights with their homogenized non-duality are well balanced in our lives.

Similarly, obvious duality and the non-dual state of Samadhi are well balanced in the life of a samadhist.

But when we want one and not the other, when we chase and choose, this delicate harmony gets disturbed.

It is a result of the mind’s ignorance.

In no-mindness, total acceptance happens, and the harmony of Samadhi surfaces.

When we stop trying to change the world, when we see things without our projections, when we stop labeling people or emotions arising within, we rise above the world of names and forms, and an amazing peace prevails in life.

The whole life becomes a gigantic happening, an enigmatic magic, where “I” is no longer needed.

Life can’t be figured out, but can definitely be lived, sip by sip, moment by moment.

As Sadhna deepens, thoughts vanish, awareness remains.

As we go further, awareness (knowingness) loses its purpose of being aware, because there is nothing to be aware of, except awareness being aware of itself.

Even that vanishes at some point, and the Absolute gets realized, but in total silence.

Normally we say –

Tamasoma Jyotirgamay. ( take me from darkness (of ignorance) to the light (of awareness), and it is true.

But the further journey takes us even beyond this light and into the abyss of darkness (Shunyata), and that’s where the turiyatit remains (beyond Turiya).

That’s when the whole sansar, the whole universe (or universes), becomes ONE.

Awareness is a silk thread that takes us on a journey into this enigmatic, unknowable state, where even awareness loses its significance.

But awareness does not disappear; it remains hidden as a potentiality, just the way a tree is already hidden in a seed, though not perceptible.

“Turiya (the “fourth” state) is the underlying witness consciousness that permeates waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, representing non-dual reality. Turiyatita (“beyond the fourth”) signifies the total transcendence of all states, where even the witness-observed distinction vanishes, merging into non-dual Self-realization. They are often viewed as the same, with Turiyatita being the ultimate, established awareness of this reality.”