53. Yogic Life is more than Good Life🔗

Even in the dream-sleep, there are two subtle categories. Just like there are two kinds of sleep in the waking state, there are two kinds of sleep in the dream state also. In the waking state, you have two kinds of sleep - sleeping during thinking, and sleeping during action. In the same way, in the dream state also, you have two kinds of sleep - sleeping during thinking, and sleeping during dreaming. When you are dreaming, there is a discontinuity which happens in the dream, and there is a discontinuity which happens inside your dream.

Please understand, Patanjali is talking about many mystical things in order to awaken those mystical dimensions in you. Life is not just all about having what you call a good life. Just a few cars, a few houses, and a family - maybe a few wives! Patanjali gives all these methods and techniques to awaken the higher energies inside you. He is not interested in stopping with what you call a good life - family, house and money and health. He says, 'No! Life is not just about all that!' There are so many other things which you can experience when you have a human body.

You know what you call a good life? It is like this: you go to Hawaii, and you know all the most frequented places, you stay there for a few days and you see only those few places which your tourist guide has been paid to show you, and you come back. That may be equated to a good life. But seeing every place, experiencing everything, is what I call a complete life, a yogic life. That is what Patanjali wants you to live. It is the same thing that most of us do on planet Earth. When you come here, you see the tourist guidebook which your parents are carrying, and you say, 'Ah, one marriage, one house, two-three cars, a little bank balance - that is what is the good life! That is all there is to see, that is all there is to experience in this life!' And you do that and go back!

Understand, there are so many things which are hidden; deep secrets and experiences which need to be lived. Awaken those energies, awaken those possibilities. If you can stop the dream-sleep, so many wonderful things can happen in you.

What is really my idea about a good life?