Dissolve into darkness

     First a deep friendship with darkness is needed. Sometimes in the night when everyone has gone to sleep, remain with the darkness. Don’t do anything, just remain with it. And just remaining with it will give you a deep feeling towards it, because it is so relaxing. You have not known it simply because of the fear. Remain with it. If you can remain with it, you will have new openings, new contacts with it.

     Remain with darkness. Many fears will be felt. Feel them. Be aware of them. Bring them to your conscious. They will come by themselves, and as they come, you remain just a witness.. They will disappear, and very soon a day will come when you can be in darkness with total surrender, with no fear. With a total let-go you can be in darkness. Then a very beautiful phenomenon happens.  All forms arise out of darkness and dissolve into darkness. Worlds come, are created out of darkness, and they fall back into darkness. Darkness is the womb, the cosmic womb. The undisturbed, the absolute stillness is there.

     Shiva says that it will be good to do this technique in a rainy night when everything is black, when clouds are there and no stars can be seen and the sky is completely dark. In a black night when there is no moon… Enter that blackness as the form of forms. Be a witness to that blackness, and then dissolve yourself into it. It is the form of all forms. You are a form – you can dissolve into it.

     When there is light, you are defined, body has a definition you have boundaries. When the light is not there, boundaries are dissolved. In blackness nothing is defined, everything merges into every other thing. Forms disappear.

     Stare into blackness. Difficult as Darkness is not an object; it is everywhere, it is all around. You cannot see it as an object. Stare into the vacuum. All around it is there; Feel at ease and look into it. It will start entering your eyes and you are also entering into it. Remain with open eyes, because with closed eyes you have a different darkness.

     Lie down and feel as if you are near your mother. The darkness is the mother, the mother of all, the womb. Think: when there was nothing, what was there? If everything disappears, what will be there still? Darkness will be there, enveloping you from everywhere