Swami Muktananda, was an elevated Siddha master (an ascetic who has achieved enlightenment), whose dynamic teachings I was exposed to when I was just 22 years old. At an ordinary bookshop in Mumbai I found his classic autobiography “The Play of Consciousness”. The result of just reading his words was such, that an incredible spiritual opening began in my being, the impact of which unfolds till this day.
In this video Swami Mukatananda extolls that “You divide your life into the waking and dream state, but it is all one state. It is ever new, neither true nor false. What was real yesterday, is unreal today, and what is real now will be unreal tomorrow.”. He goes on to say “When a wise being understands the way of the world, the sport and the play of destiny and the continuity of the waking and dream states and the light of the knowledge of Bhairava (the one who destroys fear), he becomes filled with the extraordinary mystery of the formless, and feels lighthearted with this simple awareness. Then he naturally takes delight in the game.”
Make this video a meditation. Take a good comfortable posture, put a good headphone on and then just hear the words, the sounds. No need to try and intellectually understand it, but just listen, to the play of sun and shadows.
Dennis Taraporewala 