10.3 THE OCEAN OF THE COSMOS
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The brain uses 25% of the energy, but occupies only 2% of the weight.
You guys don't understand what has happened. Your brain has simply sucked your whole energy. In your energy body, most of you are like aliens because your energy bodies' head is keeping all of the energy, and believe me, it is big. It is at least twice the body's size. The rest of the parts of your energy body are like the limbs and ribs of a beggar in Somalia. Just because you are yet to increase your sensitivity to see the energy body, don't think that I am exaggerating; what I am telling you is the truth.
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Now, I know your next question, 'How do we reduce our head weight?' Try this: Lie down. Imagine that you are lying on a river. Just visualize that you are simply floating on top of a river. Now, bring the attention to the head. Feel your head becoming one with the river. Feel it flowing with the river. Feel it merging. You are being carried away by the river's gentle currents. Do not resist. Simply feel that the river is gently, very gently carrying you along with it. Actually, at this point, you should have merged with the river. So there is no question of it taking 'you' away, because there is no 'you' and no 'it'. Where will the river flow? The brain is an insensitive thing. You will be trying to meditate and it will create some irritation on your arm causing you to scratch. You will be in silence meditation and it will create some pain in the legs, disturbing you... After doing all this, you will simply get fed up and drop the technique altogether!
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So what if the brain wants to irritate you? Why do you choose to get irritated? Actually, you want to find excuses to get up and leave, that's all. I have knee pain. I am feeling sleepy. I have to buy vegetables. Is my car out of gas?' All these things can wait for half an hour. You simply finish your meditation in awareness.
Don't worry about the other things. Those are all secondary.
Only when you put your full concentration will the experience descend on you.
Why sleep? What is the need of sleep? Honestly, you don't need more than two hours of sleep in a day. More than that and you will automatically fall into lethargy.
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You do not need more than two hours of sleep in a day. When you sleep for 10 to 12 hours, do you or do you not wake up feeling lethargic? But when you sleep for only 2 to 3 hours, it may be difficult to wake up, but you are fresh for the rest of the day.
Try it out.
Give it three day's time for your body to become accustomed to it. After the three days, you will see the increase in your energy level. You will see that 2 hours is simply enough!