Before we can get into the technology of breakthrough, we need to understand few fundamentals of life and living. We also need to understand clearly the difference between Brain & Mind and the inter-relation between the two.

Brain is the hardware aspect. It is highly evolved module in the skull, which is the greatest wonder and the miracle the way it functions. It is connected to and constantly in touch with all the parts of the body through various stimuli it gets in the form of neural signals. Hence even though it is placed in the skull, its reach is over the entire body.

Mind is the software aspect. It is the thought-emotions bundle, which is loaded with our likes and dislikes, our associations and attachments, fears and phobias etc.

It is the combination of the brain as the hardware and the mind as the software that is responsible for the miraculous functioning and also the joy and miseries of the human race.

The combination is miraculous because it has the great capacity to compare, calculate, evaluate, memorize, fantasize, imagine, react, respond, intellectualize and intuit etc. It is because of these capabilities that humans are different and far more superior in their functioning compared to any other living organism on this planet.

The combination has also created the miseries for the human race because human mind is now caught in its own web. Its capacity to memorize, calculate and compare has gone to very high levels of cunning-ness. This calculative mind is totally unaware of the other aspects such as to respond, intuit or being silent. That's why it has gone off-balance. Such people with one-sided development go eccentric very fast! It is this unbalanced growth of mind, which is responsible for the human miseries in the midst of plenty.

You can see the truth of it, when you see that rich people are as miserable as poor or at times more miserable, because material affluence has not helped us in sorting out the human problems, which are mostly psychological. On the contrary the statistics prove that more affluent the society, more the heart attacks, more divorces and more relationship problems.

The time has come where it has become almost a compulsion for us that, we must look into these issues of life, otherwise it will be too late and we will be repenting at leisure!
If you are sincere and honest in your seeing, it is not very difficult to see the urgency of it as felt by the speaker. Do you feel this urgency?

If you do feel this urgency and are interested in the breakthrough, how can we proceed further?

The simplest way is to begin from where we are right now, by simply being aware!

Right now are we aware of our breathing, the heart that is beating all the time, the sound of the chirping birds?

Now can we look at this software called mind, which is running all the time like an under- current or background music in the form of unstoppable self-dialogue? Is it possible to create some space so that we can see and observe with aloof attention these thoughts which are wondering in the inner sky?

If we pictorially represent our thought-mind at this stage, this is how it will look like! (Diagram-1) There are so many thoughts! Each one moving in its own direction! These thoughts have no coherence. One thought says you have to attend a marriage in the evening. The other thought says you deed not have breakfast. The third thought says you must concentrate on what is being said because it is important. No coherence among these three thoughts at all. And there are so many of them! So this is the condition of our thought-mind right now!

As you start observing thoughts with aloof attention, the witness is created. With this, thoughts start reducing and they fall in line. The thought flow becomes streamlined. (Diagram-2)

As the intensity of observation goes on increasing, the flow of thought goes on reducing. It becomes thinner and thinner. Now it becomes possible to see the beginning of a thought, the middle of the thought and the end of the thought as you trace the whole trajectory of thought with great intensity. (Diagram-3)

As the intensity of aloof attention goes on increasing, it becomes multi-point. With this, now you see the gap at the end of the first thought and before the second thought starts. At this stage change the gestalt. Instead of watching the thoughts, shift your focus on watching the gaps. This has the miraculous effect. As you shift the focus from thoughts to the gaps, the gap goes on increasing. (Diagram-4)

Now as you remain vigilant in multi-point awareness and continue practicing aloof attention, you will come to "no-thought zone". This is thoughtless state, without thoughts, only the gap. (Diagram-5)

As the intensity of witnessing is heightened by additional energy which is now available, as there are no thoughts to dissipate the same, the energy reservoir goes on increasing. This results into high intensity field of observation - where there are no thoughts - resulting into the "non-thought zone". This state is so vibrant and dynamic that the thought has got no capacity to linger in this zone. This is the state in which one should get rooted into with multi-dimensional awareness. Staying more and more into this state is the invitation to divine. It makes it possible to touch upon that divine quality which brings about the total transformation from the very core of your being through the explosion in the inner domain.

As you remain alert, aware and vigilant throughout, there is no chance at all for the thought-mind to play tricks with you in the form of hallucinations, imagery etc. In fact, this state being beyond the frontiers of thoughts, the thought has no say in it at all.

Once you touch upon that, the awareness falls back upon itself, becoming aware of itself! It results into the total annihilation of the ego-mind-personality, as the huge fire of that dynamic energy engulfs the entire garbage called mind, with all its emotional entanglements. For the first time you feel healthy as you get healed completely with that celestial shower which washes away all the hurt and humiliations faced in the past. This is the process of rebirth. The old goes out, the new comes in. The process continues and it takes its own time to settle, which varies from few months to few years, depending upon the past habits and temperaments of the person.

This is the breakthrough into a new dimension (we had been talking about yesterday,) which is beyond the frontiers of thought-mind. The eternal journey continues.

Please practice this what is being said. Understanding it intellectually is the first step, but that alone will not produce results. You have to practice it and work it out up to the end of it. In doing so if you have any question, you are most welcome to ask the same. But, right now, if you are not clear even intellectually, we can discuss these things for further clarity.

Q: What is witnessing? I never experienced that! What I have now is just a thought of witnessing or at the most a thought trying to witness another thought!
That is the beginning. You have a thought. Now there is another thought of witnessing the first thought. Both are the thoughts and in the same dimension. Hence there is no witnessing. Now give this thought which is interested in witnessing a challenge to observe two thoughts simultaneously and see what happens. Please do it now and see…The witness is created for the first time, because a thought has got no capacity to observe two thoughts simultaneously. This creation of the witness is the first major breakthrough in consciousness to move further in the journey. Please take your own time, try it out and see for yourself that witnessing is possible.

Q: For me witnessing is very much possible, but I don't know when a thought will come and take me for a ride and I come to know about it after a while. How do I prevent this happening again and again?
You know very well when you are witnessing. It is in your total attention. In this state the thought cannot take you for a ride. As the thought arises, it is witnessed. A witnessed thought has got no power to take you for a ride. Only a thought that is not witnessed can take you for a ride! Now if this is happening again and again, it means you are not witnessing in-between thoughts and those thoughts can take you for a ride! So the solution to this problem is in witnessing continuously. For this you have to have great intensity. A lukewarm approach will not do!
Witnessing thoughts is like seating on the riverbank and observing the flowing waters. Now you are saying that you get carried away in the river of thoughts every now and then and come to know about that only after a while when you see yourself carried away few kilometers down stream. Then you come out of the river and seat on the bank and start watching it again.
The simplest way out is keep witnessing with greater intensity. Capture the thought before it captures you. You have to be far more sharper and vigilant, only then you will be able to capture a thought. You have to be like a tiger running after a dear! If the tiger is not faster than dear is, it will never be able to capture it.
You can not wait until you realize that you have already been carried away. No, that is far too sluggish. Your witnessing has to be broad and sharp and must capture a thought even before that thought arises and takes root to move forward. Only such high intensity watchfulness will have that quality which will not get carried away by a thought.

Q: What is the difference between multi-point awareness and multi-dimensional awareness?
When you are witnessing your breathing process it is single-point awareness. Now if you can include in your awareness your heartbeats, and the sound of the chirping birds and the breeze playing with your hair, it becomes multi-point awareness. With this your awareness broadens as well as deepens to hold so many points in your awareness simultaneously. This is one of the greatest "knack" of the inner world, which if you practice can help you go very far on the path. It can take you very close to your center.
When you get rooted in this multi-point awareness, it expands on its own accord, as it helps retrieve more and more energy, which is usually trapped in thought-emotion bundle. This additional energy which is now available, adds to your energy reservoir and it goes on expanding. As it goes on expanding, at one point it takes a quantum leap and becomes multi-dimensional. With this multi-dimensional awareness you can see various dimensions of energy simultaneously. You can see the physical body of the person and can also see the ethereal aura and can also see the astral aura and can also be aware of his language and his gestures… all these things are simultaneously in your awareness. All at a time… This is multi-dimensional awareness, which is the "ultimate knack" for the new dimensional breakthrough in consciousness.

(4th Nature Camp: Yeoor, Thane, Sunday - June 10, 2001)