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You think you are sleeping, but are you truly sleeping, or does only the body sleep and the soul embark on another journey? This question has always troubled humanity. When we fall asleep, where are we? Because if you are in your room while awake, where do you go in sleep? Someone will say, "I am here, on the bed." But the truth is, the "I" that you call yourself is somewhere else in sleep. The body is here, but consciousness wanders elsewhere. It is night, darkness all around. You are lying on the bed. Your breaths are slowing down. Your eyes are closed, and suddenly you disappear. Yes. Completely disappear. The body is still here. The chest is rising and falling. The heart is beating. Eyelids are gently fluttering. Your wife is snoring. The clock is ticking. But where did you go? The one flying in dreams, wandering in an unknown city, running in the childhood lane, making love with an unfamiliar woman, losing your mother, drowning in the sea – is that you, or someone else? The question is not where the soul goes in sleep. The question is, where are you while awake? Laugh. Laugh loudly, because this question is killing you at night, and you think you've returned as soon as the alarm rings. [Music] No, you never left. You never arrived. You just are. And now, let's descend into this mysterious journey of losing yourself. Without a book, without a guru, without a map, only one breath, one dream, one silence. People say sleep is the sister of death. No, sleep is death's younger brother. It comes daily, touches you, and leaves. Every night you die. Yes. You die. The "Rakesh Priya," "Doctor Sahib," "Madam Ji," all that disappears. Bank balance, boss's phone, wife's taunts, child's fees, house [Music] EMI, neighbor's dog – all dust. Science says that in sleep, the brain enters theta waves. The body becomes paralyzed – REM atonia. You cannot move. This is not paralysis; it is liberation. The body sleeps so that you can fly. A Jain master died in his sleep. Disciples began to cry. The master's eyes opened. "Oh, I just returned!" [Music] "Why are you all making so much noise?" Laugh. Even death is a joke. Sleep comes daily. It shows you the trailer of death, and you are afraid. Why? Because you consider the body your home. Sleep comes, you check out. In the morning, you check in. Death will come, and it will be a new hotel. Vedanta says there are three layers. First, the waking state. Where you say "I am me." You are wearing a mask [Music] – name, status, relationships, glasses, beard, phone, car, house, office – all masks. You have forgotten yourself. Second, the dream state. Where you forget "I am me." The mask [Music] breaks. You are naked. The suppressed surge of the day becomes prominent. Third, deep sleep. Where even "I" does not resonate. The void, the temple, God's room. The third one is the most dangerous because there you are closest to God. Without realizing it, you spend three to four hours in deep sleep at night. Are you ever truly there? No. You fall asleep. Waking up from deep sleep is samadhi. In the waking state, you are acting. In dreams, you are watching the play. In deep sleep, you are not even acting; you just are. Science says dreams occur in REM sleep. Every 90 minutes, a cycle. The brain consolidates memories, deletes junk. Nonsense. A dream is a rebellion of your subconscious. What is suppressed during the day dances at night. The boss scolded you during the day; at night, you are feeding the boss samosas, and he is crying. Laugh. This is not the soul's revenge; it is the mind's revenge. But sometimes, someone appears in a dream. You didn't create them, nor do you know them. They speak. They give a warning [Music]. They say, "Wake up." Who is that? Perhaps an angel of the soul. Perhaps a premonition of death. Perhaps your future. A man sees his mother in a dream. The mother says, "Son, look at the papers in the cupboard." In the morning, he looked; it was a will. The mother had died, but love had not died. There are five types of dreams. First, a replay of the day. Second, wish fulfillment. Third, a dance of fears. Fourth, precognitive. Fifth, visitation. A dream is your cinema hall; you are the audience, the hero, and the villain. Now, the real question: where does the soul go in sleep? Science says nowhere [Music]. The soul doesn't exist; it's just brain waves. Religion says the soul merges into the supreme soul. Both are wrong. The soul doesn't go anywhere. You go. You are on a train. The train stops. You get off to drink tea. The train starts moving. You run. In sleep, the body is the train. You get off to drink tea. In the morning, you run back. The soul is not the station; it is the traveler [Music]. While awake, you are imprisoned in the body. In sleep, the body rests, and you are free, like clouds clearing to reveal the moon. Sleep is the cloud. The soul is the moon. Instead of seeing the moon, you count the clouds. The soul is the owner. You are the tenant. Have you ever realized in a dream that you are dreaming [Music]? Lucid dream. There, you are the king. You can fly, love, die. There are techniques. First, reality check. Ask yourself 10 times a day, "Am I dreaming?" Look at your hands. Look at the clock. Second, WBTB (Wake Back To Bed). Wake up at 3:00 AM, stay awake for 15 minutes, then go back to sleep. Third, MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams). Before sleeping, say, "I will wake up in a dream." A girl flies in a lucid dream. She thinks, "What should I do now?" She calls someone [Music]. They come and say, "Now laugh." She laughs. She woke up in the morning, laughing. Lucid dreaming is a game of meditation. There, you stand between the awake and the unaware. The master of both worlds. Deep sleep. No dreams, no "I." Yoga says this is a rehearsal for samadhi. Every night you are in samadhi, but you lose consciousness. Techniques are: First, be a witness. Watch your breath while sleeping. Second, body scan. Relax from feet to head. Third, sink into sleep while chanting a mantra. A sadhu was in deep sleep at night. In the morning, a disciple asked, "Where were you?" The sadhu replied, "Where you have never been." In deep sleep, you are in God's room. The door is closed. You are asleep. Wake up. Death is death's elder brother. Only the alarm doesn't ring. In sleep, you die for seven to eight hours. In death, forever. But the soul does not die. It is a traveler. The body is a hotel. In sleep, you check out. You roam. You check in. In death, a new hotel. Why fear? Because you consider the hotel your home. A Sufi says death is a door, sleep is a window. Air comes from both. Science says REM, NREM, theta waves, memory consolidation, dream journal, liberation of the soul, dance of the subconscious, witnessing – both are correct. Science looks outward. Spirituality looks inward. Keep a dream diary. Write every morning where you were, what you saw. Science will say brain waves, the soul's journey. Laugh. Tantra says sexual [Music] energy rises in sleep. During the day, you let it flow down. At night, it runs in the Sushumna. Love, flying, drowning in dreams are all play of Kundalini. Sleep is the battlefield of Tantra. Make love before sleeping. Embrace your lover. Energy will rise. In dreams, you will not love; you will become love. First, precognitive. What will happen tomorrow is seen today. Second, visitation. The deceased come. Third, out-of-body. You are above the body. Fourth, shared dream. Two people see one dream. Fifth, healing dream. Illness is cured. Sixth, nightmare. Facing fears. Seventh, lucid. Awake dream. Eighth, false awakening. It feels like you've woken up in a dream. Ninth, prophetic. Prediction. Tenth, dream within a dream. A dream within a dream. First, dream pillow. Place your hand on the pillow before sleeping and say, "I will wake up in a dream." Second, morning witness. The first thought in the morning: "Where was I?" Third, breath witness. Watch your breath while sleeping. Fourth, body drop. Relax the body. Fifth, silence before sleep. 10 minutes of silence. A Jain master's dream. He died in a dream within a dream. In the morning, a disciple asked, "Where were you?" The master replied, "Where you have never been." A Sufi's dream. He met God in a dream [Music]. God said, "You are asleep. Wake up." One night, someone was in deep sleep. In the morning, he said, "I returned home." Sleep is not just rest [Music]. It is a mysterious door. We know sleep in a very superficial sense. We think sleep means relaxation. Sleep means erasing fatigue. But sleep is actually a door. Where the body stops, and the soul emerges. You pass through that door every night, without understanding that you are going on a great journey. Sleep is a small glimpse of your death [Music]. Every night when you sleep, you die for a little while. And in the morning, when your eyes open, you are born again. Therefore, pay attention: every morning is your rebirth, and every night you taste a little bit of death. When the body sleeps, it dies for some time. Your consciousness slips away from the body [Music]. Blood flow slows down. Breaths become deeper. Temperature decreases. These are all signs that life's energy [Music] is drawing inward. This is the moment when the soul begins to emerge. Like a bird flying from its cage. But the difference is that the soul doesn't go outside; it goes inside, towards the center of existence. We think going outside means a journey, but the soul's journey is always inward, and sleep is its most natural path. The soul neither wanders in space nor flies in galaxies. It moves spacially, where there is no direction, no distance. It simply descends into the depth of existence. Just as ocean waves return from the surface to the depth, the soul returns to its source every night [Music]. When you are awake, you are outside, in senses, thoughts, relationships. When you sleep, you return inward, to your origin [Music], to your home. Therefore, the person who knows how to descend into sleep does not fear death either. Because the difference between sleep and death is only this: [Music] in sleep, you return in the morning. In death, the return is a little longer. The dream state is a bridge. It is the path between the waking state and deep sleep. When you sleep, you don't immediately go into deep sleep. First, you enter the dream state because the mind cannot instantly calm down. It makes a last effort to keep you bound. Your dreams are those. The mind's last turmoil, the day's burden, unfulfilled desires, unspoken words – all flow in the form of dreams. When all this tires out, then you fall into deep sleep. That moment when there are no dreams, no memories. That is the soul's rest. That is the soul's home. Does the soul go anywhere? This question is very subtle because the word "go" [Music] itself is physical. The soul doesn't go anywhere. It simply falls deeper. When you say "I went somewhere," it includes time and space. But the soul is beyond time and space. So, when the body sleeps, the soul doesn't go out. It just goes inside [Music] so deeply that you lose all contact with it. That is why, upon waking up, you say, "Sleep was very deep. I don't remember anything." Because you were not there. Only the soul was there, without name, without form. The mind is always active. It never tires because it is not energy; it is just a sequence of thoughts. But when you enter deep sleep, the mind breaks. That gap is the moment when the soul is in its pure form [Music]. That is why, when you wake up in the morning, you feel refreshed because the soul has rested. You think the body has rested from sleep, but actually, the soul has touched itself again. Meditation is like sleep, with one difference: sleep is falling into unconsciousness, while meditation is falling with awareness. In sleep, you reach the soul, but with unconsciousness. In meditation, you reach the same place, but with awareness. Therefore, it is said that one who is proficient in meditation remains aware even in sleep. Such a person, when sleeping, the body sleeps, the mind calms down, but their soul remains a witness. They see their dreams, their silence. Such people say, "We sleep, but we know we are sleeping." This is the ultimate state of meditation. Every night when you sleep, you touch that silence in deep sleep, but for such a short time that you cannot understand it. It's like just pausing for a few seconds at the edge of a sacred lake [Music] and then returning to the city's noise. If you remain conscious, sleep can become your meditation. Every night, that door opens within you that can connect you to the divine. But we pass through that door by sleeping, without seeing who is sitting inside. Sleep is not an ordinary event. It is the soul's daily return home. Your body is in the world, but the soul returns to its origin every night. When you begin to understand this, your sleep also becomes a practice. Then sleeping becomes meditation, and waking up [Music] becomes worship. The first state is where most humans are stuck: the dream world. Here, the soul is still connected to the mind. It has not yet become completely free. It is wandering through layers of thoughts, desires, and memories. Dreams don't seem real, but they are the language of the subconscious [Music]. Every dream arises from some depth within you. Sometimes it comes as fear, sometimes as love, sometimes as unfulfilled longing. But here, the soul is not aware; it is just flowing, like a piece of wood in a stream, without direction, just flow. In dreams, the soul is half-free. Not from the body, but still bound by the mind. This is the place where the soul becomes completely free for the first time. This is the realm of deep sleep. Where there are no thoughts, no images, no movement; everything has stopped here. Science calls this deep sleep. But meditation calls this the soul's rest. Here, the soul meets itself for the first time. It descends into a deep lake, where there are no waves, no sounds. There is no memory, no worry about the future, just the pure experience of existence. You don't remember anything because you are not there. Only the soul is there, and the soul needs no claim to its being. In very rare moments, the soul crosses another level. This [Music] state is unknown to the ordinary human. This is what the mystics called the Turiya state, the fourth state, which is beyond sleep, dream, and waking. In this state, the soul does not sleep, does not wake; it becomes a witness. It sees everything: the body's sleep, the mind's dreams, and the rhythm of silence. This is the state where meditation and sleep merge. A person who reaches this state remains conscious even in death. They die but see themselves dying. They fall into sleep but see themselves falling. This is the state of Yoga Nidra, where the body is asleep, but the soul is in meditation. This state is not ordinary sleep but conscious sleep, where the soul and the divine converse. When you go to sleep, your energy works on many levels. The first level is physical reconstruction. The second level is mental purification. The third is spiritual rebirth. At the first level, the body heals its wounds. At the second level, the mind sheds its burdens. And at the third level, the soul reconnects with Brahman. This is why, when a meditation yogi was asked, "Why do you meditate?" he smiled and said, "So that I can sleep even while awake." Because one who descends into meditation can touch that depth [Music] every moment where the soul goes every night. In deep sleep, the soul does not just rest; it reconnects with cosmic energy. Like a lamp that doesn't go out, but just withdraws inward for a while to escape the wind. That withdrawal is the soul's recharge. It is not a return but an absorption into itself.