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Chapter 10
Religion is a Search for Meditation1 August 1970 pm in CCI Chambers, Bombay, India
Question 1
BEFORE DISCUSSING THE PROCESS OF ENTERING DEATH CONSCIOUSLY, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE STATE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND THE STATE OF AWARENESS? WHAT STATE OF MIND IS CALLED THE UNCONSCIOUS STATE? IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT IS THE INDIVIDUAL SOULS CONSCIOUSNESS LIKE IN ITS CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS STATES?
In order to understand the states of consciousness and unconsciousness, the first thing that needs to be understood is that they are not opposite states, although normally they are seen as opposites.
Actually, we are used to seeing life in terms of duality.
First we create a division between darkness and light and then think they are two separate things.
As soon as we take darkness and light to be two different things we commit a fundamental mistake.
Any thought that follows this mistake is bound to be wrong; it can never be right.
Darkness and light are variations of the same thing.
They are different aspects, different stages of the same thing.
It would be appropriate to call darkness a deficiency of light.
Light which our eyes cannot catch, light which our eyes cannot detect, looks like darkness.
Similarly, we should call light a shortage of darkness -- darkness which our eyes can catch.
So darkness and light are not two separate things, they are varying degrees of the same phenomenon.