some deeper truth to know

Realization of truth cannot be determined by the parameters you set to something you want to know. In the process you cannot condition your intellect to what you like or don't like. We are not discovering anything new here rather realizing what has already been there all along. Therefore, Sadhguru mentions time and again, that when you reach a point of 'I do not know' only will then seeking begins. In my case besides being a devout disciple, I did study, practiced yoga, asked questions, discussed spiritual matters with friends and relatives and I also had the opportunity to visit many places of spiritual interest in Nepal and India.  In all these endeavors I realized that humility is a great asset of a seeker and it is the mother of devotion.    
  
The emotions that our body generates like joy and misery, happiness and sorrow, pain and pleasure, agony and bliss, love and hatred, sufferings and ecstasy are all a result of chemistry that goes on within our body. Yogis observe that our body is capable of producing the required chemicals for a certain emotion. It is known that after a lot of research in the last couple of decades a scientist found millions of cannabis receptors in the human brain. It is because the human body produces its own narcotic that feelings of peace, pleasure and joy happen within you without any stimulus from outside. When the scientist wanted to give this chemical an appropriate name, he came to India after a long search and found the most appropriate word Ananda or bliss. So, he called it anandamide. Generation of sufficient amount of anandamide in your system can make you drunk all the time but fully awake, wide awake like the yogis.  
 

Sath Chith Ananda is a household word in the Indian culture and it means Truth, Knowledgeand bliss, the highest state of human achievement. It is worth mentioning here that Pragya  Purush Om Shri Ananda Prabhu in his publication 'Swabodh Bhajanamrit' cautions everybody that 'Very few know my sath chith ananda roop. He is not talking about himself but he is referring to you and me in these verses. He observes – I am the seer of the universe, very few know me as the witness of all. There is no sin or virtue nor do I have I have any action. I have no birth nor death, I am untainted by all these, very few know my sath chith ananda roop. I am the heat in the sun or moon and the fire and I am the radiant bright light, very few know my sath chith ananda roop. What is seen is the seer, I am that non-dual form very few  know my sath chith ananda roop. Suffering and happiness is my doing  and so is bondage and liberation. I am away from mind and intellect, easily achievable with the Guru's grace, very few know the indescribable, nameless and the formless roop.   
 

There has always been a talk in the town about praying and meditation. Usually we pray whenever we have a difficult situation or in front of a deity or in a place of worship. Essentially what happens in a prayer is that we ask God for something in other words we do all the speaking and expect God to be listening. But the reverse of the same is true in case of meditation where we listen and God speaks. For all our senses to be active and realize the presence of God we need to awaken the Gyan, Bhakti and Vairag. We have seen in the Bhagavad how the Bhakti Mata is helpless without her two ailing and unconscious old sons – Gyan and Vairag who needs to be awakened. 
  
This would certainly be something new to know for most of the readers that there are four states of being [Awastha]. First is the jagarat awastha or wakefulness where we are fully aware of what is happening around us. The second is the Swapna awastha or dream state during sleep when the mind is present, but we are not awake. The third is called the susuptiwhere you feel nothing, know nothing. There is no witness to the experience and it is just deep dreamless sleep. The fourth is called the Turiya awastha or state of trance where astral travel happens in the later stage of meditation. In my own experience, I felt I have detached from my body and travelled to some distant unknown places. Although I was fully aware, I can't describe how that journey happened. I came back and to my surprise I saw my own body like a dead body lying on the bed. After a while I woke up but could not figure out how I entered back into the body. I had three consecutive nights of these experiences which happened during brahma muhurta, hours before dawn. I can say for sure how it would be like when we are dead. I experienced this while in my hut in the refugee camp in 1998. I also hadseries of telepathic experiences with my Guru who spoke everything that was there in my mind during prabachan [discourse] and the devotees surrounded me to know what the Guru said. Today, I understand that when your devotion reaches a certain height the etheric content becomes dense which is why telepathy is possible. To tell you a secret, I was definitely themost devoted devotee which my fellow devotees would agree, and they would not hesitate to disclose what happened during those days. 
  
Have ever you slept under the open sky and wondered about all that you see above? I did that while in the Beldangi camp not from my hut though. To avoid the heat late evening, I used to sleep on a jhalla in the silence of the school ground and wonder looking into the sky. As a habitual sky-gazer, I gathered for myself that everything is nothing. This means all that is there is going to perish because everything comes with an expiry date and turn into nothing. Similarly, nothing is everything because it is from nothingness that creation will begin and everything will come about. Do not hesitate to imagine. We just have the faculty of memory and imagination to steer us on the road to our mission. Always remember it is not about knowing God. It is about becoming God.