Yoga The Alpha and the Omega Vol 3汇总.doc

Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 Discourses on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Talks given from 01/03/75 am to 10/03/75 am English Discourse series 10 Chapters Year published: During the early 1980's it was planned to publish the "Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega" volumes as "Yoga: The Science of the Soul". Only the first three volumes were actually published, the title stayed as "Alpha and Omega" for the other seven volumes. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 Chapter #1 Chapter title: Dropping out of the wheel 1 March 1975 am in Buddha Hall Archive code: 7503010 ShortTitle: YOGA301 Audio: Yes Video: No Length: 87 mins ALSO, MEDITATE ON KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES DURING SLEEP. ALSO, MEDITATE ON ANYTHING THAT APPEALS TO YOU. THUS, THE YOGI BECOMES MASTER OF ALL, FROM THE INFINITESIMAL TO THE INFINITE. MAN SLEEPS almost one-third of his life, twenty years approximately. But sleep has been neglected, terribly neglected. Nobody thinks about it, nobody meditates on it. This has happened because man has paid too much attention to the conscious mind. Mind has three dimensions. Just as matter has three dimensions, mind also has three dimensions. Only one dimension is conscious, another dimension is unconscious, and still another dimension is there which is superconscious. These three dimensions are of the mind -- just like the matter, because deep down mind is also matter. Or, you can say it otherwise, that matter is also mind. It has to be so, because only one exists. Mind is subtle matter; matter is gross mind. But ordinarily man lives only in one dimension, the conscious. Sleep belongs to the unconscious; dreaming belongs to the unconscious. Meditation, ecstasy, belong to the superconscious, just like waking and thinking belong to the conscious. So, we have to go slowly into this phenomenon of mind. The first thing about mind to be remembered is, it is just like an iceberg -- the topmost part is on the surface; you can see it, but it is only one-tenth of the whole.