In India we have divided human consciousness into four stages.

We call the first stage the

ordinary waking consciousness. Right now you are in the ordinary waking consciousness.

What is an ordinary waking consciousness? You appear to be awake but you are not. You

are a little bit awake, but that little bit is so small that it doesn't make much difference.

You can walk to your home, you can recognise your wife or your husband, you can drive

your car...that little bit is only enough for this. It gives you a sort of efficiency -- that's all.

Di India kita telah membagi kesadaran manusia kedalam empat tingkatan. Kita menyebut tingkat
pertama kesadaran terjaga biasa. Sekarang ini engkau ada di dalam kesadaran terbangun biasa.

Apakah itu kesadaran terjaga biasa? Engkau terlihat seperti terjaga tetapi engkau tidaklah begitu.
Engkau hanya sedikit terjaga, tetapi yang sedikit itu sangatlah kecil sehingga itu tidak membuat
perbedaan besar. Engkau bisa berjalan ke rumahmu, engkau bisa mengenali istri atau suamimu,
engkau bisa mengendarai mobilmu,... yang sedikit itu hanya cukup untuk melakukan ini. Itu
memberimu ketangkasan semacam itu ...hanya itu saja.

But it is a very small consciousness, exhausted very easily, lost very easily. If somebody

insults you it is lost, it is exhausted. If somebody insults you, you become angry. You are

no longer conscious. That's why after anger many people say, 'Why did I do it? How did I

do it? How could I do it? It happened in spite of me.' Yes, they are right -- it happened in

spite of you because you lost your consciousness. In anger, in violent rage, people are

possessed; they do things they would never do if they were a little aware. They can kill,

they can destroy; they can even destroy themselves.

Tetapi itu hanya kesadaran yang sangat kecil, sangat mudah habis, sangat mudah hilang. Jika
seseorang menghinamu, kesadaran itu hilang, itu habis. Jika seseorang menghinamu, engkau
menjadi marah. Engkau tidak lagi sadar. Itulah mengapa setelah marah, banyak orang
berkata,”Mengapa aku melakukan hal itu? Bagaimanakah aku melakukan hal itu? Bagaimana bisa
aku melakukan hal itu? itu terjadi tanpa aku.” Ya, mereka benar – itu terjadi tanpa dirimu karena
engkau telah kehilangan kesadaran. Di dalam kemarahan, di dalam tindakan kekerasan, orang –
orang kesurupan; mereka melakukan sesuatu yang mereka tidak akan pernah lakukan jika mereka
sedikit saja sadar. Mereka bisa membunuh, mereka bisa menghancurkan, mereka bahkan bisa
menghancurkan diri mereka sendiri.
The ordinary waking consciousness is only 'waking' for name's sake -- deep down dreams

continue. Just a small tip of the iceberg is alert -- most of the thing is underneath, in

darkness. Watch it sometimes. Just anywhere close your eyes and look within: you will

see dreams floating like clouds surrounding you. You can sit on the chair any moment of

the day, close your eyes, relax, and suddenly you see that the dreams have started. In fact

they have not started, they were continuing -- just as during the day stars disappear from

the sky. They don't really disappear, they are there, but because of the light of the sun you

don't see them. If you go into a deep well, a very deep, dark well, from the dark well you

can look at the sky and you will be able to recognise a few stars -- even at midday. The

stars are there; when night Comes they don't reappear, they have always been there, all

twenty-four hours. They don't go anywhere, the sunlight just hides them.

Kesadaran terjaga yang biasanya (dalam hal ini diisitilahkan dengan waking consciousness), “terjaga”
hanya untuk kepennama saja hanya 'terbangun' demi nama - jauh di bawah mimpi terus. Hanya
sebagian kecil gunung es yang waspada - sebagian besar benda itu ada di bawahnya

kegelapan. Awasi kadang-kadang. Dimana saja tutup matamu dan lihatlah: kamu akan melakukannya

lihat mimpi mengambang seperti awan di sekitar Anda. Anda bisa duduk di kursi kapan saja

hari, tutup mata Anda, rileks, dan tiba-tiba Anda melihat bahwa mimpi telah dimulai. Faktanya

mereka belum memulai, mereka terus berlanjut - sama seperti pada siang hari bintang-bintang
menghilang

langit. Mereka tidak benar-benar hilang, mereka ada di sana, tapi karena cahaya matahari Anda

jangan lihat mereka Jika Anda masuk ke dalam sumur yang dalam, sumur yang dalam dan gelap, dari
sumur yang gelap Anda

Bisa melihat langit dan Anda akan bisa mengenali beberapa bintang - bahkan di tengah hari. Itu

bintang ada; Saat malam tiba mereka tidak muncul kembali, mereka selalu ada di sana

dua puluh empat jam. Mereka tidak pergi ke mana pun, sinar matahari hanya menyembunyikannya.
Exactly the same is the case with your dreaming: it is just below the surface, just

underground it continues. On the top of it is a little layer of awareness, underneath are a

thousand and one dreams. Close your eyes any time and you will find yourself dreaming.

'That's why people are in great difficulty when they start meditating. They come to me

and they say, 'This is something funny, strange. We never thought that there were so

many thoughts.' They have never closed their eyes, they have never sat in a relaxed

posture, they have never gone in to see what was happening there because they were too

engaged in the outside world, they were too occupied. Because of that occupation they

never became aware of this constant activity inside.

In India, the ordinary waking consciousness is called the first state. The second state is

that of dreaming. Any time you close your eyes you are in it. At night you are

continuously in it, almost continuously. Whether you remember your dream in the

morning or not is not of much importance, you go on dreaming. There are at least eight

cycles of dreaming during the night. One cycle continues for many minutes -- fifteen,

twenty minutes; then there is a gap; then there is another cycle; then there is a gap; then

again there is a cycle. Throughout the whole night you are continuously dreaming and

dreaming and dreaming. This is the second state of consciousness.

This parable is concerned with the second state of consciousness. Ordinarily all desires

exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to

work for a dream is doomed from the very beginning, because a dream can never become

real. Even if sometimes you feel it has become almost real, it never becomes real -- a

dream by nature is empty. It has no substance in it.

The third state is sleep, deep sleep, SUSHUPTI. In it all dreaming disappears -- but all

consciousness also. While you are awake there is a little awareness, very little; when you

are dreaming, even that little awareness disappears. But still there is an iota of awareness

-- that's why you can remember in the morning that you had a dream, such and such a

dream. But in deep sleep even that disappears. It is as if you have completely
disappeared. Nothing remains. A nothingness surrounds you.

These are the three ordinary states. The fourth state is called TURIYA. The fourth is

simply called 'the fourth'. TURIYA means 'the fourth'. The fourth state is that of a

Buddha. It is almost like dreamless sleep with one difference -- that difference is very

great. It is as peaceful as deep sleep, as without dreams as deep sleep, but it is absolutely

alert, aware.

Krishna says in his Gita that a real yogi never sleeps. That does not mean that a real yogi

simply sits awake in his room the whole night. There are a few foolish people who are

doing that. That a real yogi never sleeps means that while he is asleep he remains aware,

alert.