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Listen to a fading sound

Any sudden thing or sound makes you awake. Suddenness breaks your sleep, and ordinarily we are asleep. Unless something goes wrong, we are not out of sleep, we go on doing things sleepily. That is why we never feel the sleep.

This sleepiness can be broken. This technique says, in the beginning and gradual refinement of the sound of any letter awake. Try with any sound, with any letter – Aum, for example. In the beginning, when you have not yet created the sound, AWAKE. Or when the sound moves into soundlessness, then awake. How can you do it?

Go to a temple. A bell is there or a gong. Take the bell in your hand and wait. First become totally alert. The sound is going to be there and you are not to miss the beginning. First become totally alert, as if your life depends on this, as if someone is going to kill you this very moment, and you will be awake. Be alert – as if this is going to be your death. And if there is thought, wait, because thought is sleepiness. With thought you cannot be alert. When you are alert, there is no thought. So wait. When you feel that now the mind is without thought, that there is no cloud and you are alert, then move with the sound.

Look when the sound is not there, then close your eyes. Then look when the sound is created, struck; then move with the sound. The sound will become slower and slower, subtler and subtler and subtler, and then it will not be there. Then go on with the sound. Be aware, alert. Move with the sound to the very end. See both the poles of the sound, both the beginning and the end. Try it with some outer sound like a gong or a bell or anything.

This seems to be very simple, but awareness is very difficult, right now you think you are already aware and awake. Try this ”I will be awake, alert, for ten breaths,” and then count the breaths. You will miss. Two or three, and you will have moved somewhere else. Alertness is one of the most difficult things and then you will know that it is not child’s play. You are not aware – and when you try it, for the first time you will know that you have been asleep your whole life.

First do it outwardly, then you will be able to do it inwardly. Then do it. Wait for the moment when the mind is vacant, then create the sound inside, feel it, move with it, go with it, until it disappears completely.

Use sound as a passage towards feeling

Intone one sound. Go on intoning it, first audibly so that you can hear it, and then by and by, slowly, inaudibly. No one else can hear it then, but you can hear it inside. Make it more quiet, make it less and less audible, and then suddenly drop it. There will be silence, an explosion of silence – but feeling will be there. Now there will be no thought, but feeling will be there. So if you have a feeling for a certain sound, it is better to use it. Do not use an intellectual sound, it will be of no help because the sound has to be used to make a passage from the mind to the heart. So use some sound for which you have a deep love, a certain feeling.

When you use a sound or a word, the love is attached to a label. You say, ”Ram, Ram, Ram…” You have a deep feeling for this word, but the feeling is addressed to ”Ram,” narrowed down to ”Ram.” When you go on reducing the ”Ram,” a moment will come when ”Ram” disappears, the sound disappears. Now only the feeling remains, the feeling of love – not toward Ram, it is now not addressed. There is simply a feeling of love – not toward anyone, not even toward; there is simply a feeling of love as if you are in an ocean of love.

Any sound will do. Find your own sound. And when you intone it, you will feel whether you have a loving relationship with it, because the heart will start vibrating. Your whole body will begin to be more sensitive. You will feel as if you are falling into something warm, just like your beloved’s lap; something warm begins enveloping you. And this is a physical feeling also, not simply a mental feeling. If you intone a sound which you love, you will feel a certain warmth around you, inside you. Then the world is not a cold world, it is warm. It is better to choose a small room, and if the room is such that it vibrates your sound it is good, it will help you. And if you can choose the same place every day, it will be very good. It becomes charged. If the same sound is repeated every day, every atom, the very space becomes a milieu.

These methods are temple methods. A temple is good, or a mosque or a church. Your own house is not good for these methods, So it is better to go to a certain place which belongs to a certain sound, and then use it. And it , go to the same place every day.