The Trapped Consciousness (i) — The Prison Inside (The Astral World)

We all are trapped inside our own mind, in the Astral World of thoughts. And the more we try to come out of it, the smaller our internal sky becomes.

In my post on 16th Sept. 2026 on my another blog, Think Centre, I already gave a hint on it:

Human mind can never be thoughtless. Some thoughts will always be there. So what can we do? Let the sky of your mind be vast. A small sky gets crowded with two or three birds. Make the sky big. But be careful -- don't become the bird.

It is my personal experience that the more we control it, the smaller the sky will be. And if we are attached, then we may become the bird and thus lose our positioning from the centre.

After becoming the bird, we will be trapped, we will be illusioned and we will lose clarity.

Now the question is: 

How to get back the clarity once we are trapped as the bird?

So let's find out the answer of our question.

“To play fair where others cheat is not Dharma. Dharma is to see the truth as it is, and to act without blindness.”

~ Shree Krishna

He said this to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

(Day 1: Buddhi Yoga)

Clarity not Blindness

Sanjay had a 360° view of the Battlefield of Kurukshetra. He saw how Shree Krishna pulled Arjuna out of the trap of his own thoughts and emotions created by his mind. But Dhritarashtra wasn't happy about it. 

In the entire conversation with Arjuna, Krishna was just telling him one thing: don't just think about yourself or your family. Think in a larger perspective.

Think about the after-effect if the Kauravas got victorious. A wrong message would be conveyed to society, and most certainly a crooked version of the story would be narrated and set. He may be called a coward, and many more things would be said to him which would be worse than death.

So, what was Krishna doing? He was just aligning Arjuna to come out of his trapped consciousness, where he had imprisoned himself.

We all do like Arjuna most of the time, and we do it repeatedly. 

That is why we need a Guru, a Zen Master, who can help us come out of it. But we need not look for the Master outside. My Master said that the real Master, the Guru, is already inside. All we have to do is to listen to the voice.

And see what is happening.

Arjuna had lowered his bow again. Karna stood before him, desperate and armless, trying to lift the wheel of his chariot stuck in the mud. Arjuna's heart said not to strike a helpless man.

But Krishna reminded Arjuna where that fairness was when the same Karna stood with the Kauravas and killed Abhimanyu.

He was just a boy. Alone. Trapped inside the Chakravyuha. Disarmed, exhausted, with no weapon in his hand. And they did not spare him. It was Karna who cut his bow from behind. Then all of them together attacked a weaponless child and killed him ruthlessly.

That was not war. 

That was cowardice.

So Krishna said, "Arjuna, the man you are showing mercy to now, never showed mercy when it was his turn to be fair."

"To play fair where others cheat is not Dharma. Dharma is to see the truth as it is, and to act without blindness."

Here, Krishna is telling us to align Buddhi Yoga with Karma Yoga. Only Karma without insight and wisdom will never help us. It will simply destroy us and destroy those who are under our shelter.

So, the best way to come out of this self-made prison is to have a 360° view, to comprehend the situation as it is, and not to be dominated by our own subjectivity of emotions.

A Mind Map; The Rise of Consciousness

 

"Let there be no more desires, for they are the cause of Re-birth."

~ Sudhir Singh

The Rise of Consciousness

(A New Chain of Thoughts)

There are THREE of us living inside one body.

One is The Trapped Consciousness — locked inside a prison we cannot see.

One is The Real You — silent, waiting, watching.

And one is The Pure Consciousness — free, untouched, eternal.

In this series, we will talk about all the three. But we will spend more time to comprehend the first one because it is the toughest one. It tells you about how we got trapped.

The trapped consciousness lives in three cages:

(i) The Prison Inside — which creates an Astral World of our own fears and dreams.

(ii) The Impressions — the marks left by every life, every desire, which become the cause of Re-birth.

(iii) The Golden Cage — the most dangerous cage of all. It is beautiful, comfortable, successful. So we become unwilling to break it.

We think we are free because our cage is golden. But a cage is still a cage.

And so this series begins with one truth:

Let there be no more desires, for they are the cause of Re-birth.

Nothing: The Conclusion (The Empty Theatre)

The Empty Theatre

"Make the true film, even if the hall is empty."

~ Sudhir Singh

In a dream, I saw a movie playing.

It was a film about multiverse reality and Human psychology. Classical. Logical. Exceptionally well made. The first time such a film had ever been made.

I thought, Yes, this must become popular.

But no one had come to watch it.

The movie was playing to an empty hall. So I went and sat alone. I watched it. I appreciated it.

Then people came and started abusing the hero of the film. And do you know who the hero was? A superstar - the kind you would never expect to make such a film. Of course, he is a very good actor, but this was not his style. The style was unshakeably Hollywood. But he wasn't appreciated. However, he said nothing. He just listened.

Then some started beating him. They looked villainous. I decided to help him, but people stopped me. They said, "You have back issues."

I have back issues in real life too. But I did not listen.

I gave him my shoulder and took him towards the car so he could get treatment. I asked a boy to open the door and help me make him sit.

Then people started abusing me too. They said I was doing something illegal. Even he, the hero too, said so.

I was confused. What is going on?

Suddenly, he woke up and started laughing. Everyone started laughing. They said they were just kidding. It was all part of the script.

In another dream, I saw a woman sitting in a public hall. She said she had a barcode on her tongue. She was talking in a strange way I could not understand, yet people were listening to her very carefully.

Then I saw, a child came to meet me. He said his name is Nachiketa.

He told me, "The world will abuse you, beat you, blame you - and then laugh and say it was just a script. People will speak in barcodes - scanned, labelled, priced - and the crowd will listen carefully but you must still make the true film, even if the hall is empty."

Then I heard a heavy voice saying, "One viewer is enough. If that one viewer is you."

A dark image emerged from a corner. It wasn't clear. I didn't get who he was.

NOTHING SERIES ends here. But truth does not.

Nothing -- Day 6: The Dead Corpse of Ego

"Kill your ego before someone else kills it. Let them be deprived of this pleasure by showing them the dead corpse of your ego."

~ Sudhir Singh

Day 6: The Dead Corpse of Ego

(Nothing came back to Bali.)

He asked, "You left everything, still you are happy. How?"

(Bali didn't look away.)

He said, "I had already left everything from inside, for I have something which cannot be taken."

(Then Nachiketa stepped forward.)

He asked him, "Do you have the courage to be bare like truth?"

"Yes. Just like you," said Bali. 

(Smiled and replied.)

(The writer was watching all this.) 

So, he too came to meet them.

He was asked by Bali, "Don't you want to prove yourself?"

(Writer looked hollow inside as if nothing is left.)

"He has nothing to prove", Nachiketa told.

"He confronted his deepest fear buried inside his unconscious. People call it pessimism, but he is practicing the Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius."

"He has his book, Meditations."

"Not a physical copy, but a copy from the dream world which was there deep inside, before his physical existence."

It inscribed, "Kill your ego before someone else kills it. Let them be deprived of this pleasure by showing them the dead corpse of your ego."

Nothing Day 5: Nothing to Prove

 Day 5: Nothing to Prove 

"I am not perfect. I stumble, but there is grace in it."

~ Sudhir Singh

Let this be clear to all — nothing is clear here except the Sakshi (the Witness / a silent watcher). I am quite ordinary. But the 'I' , I am talking about is not I, not anyone who has a human body or a mind. This 'I' is just a witness. Quiet, indifferent, watching, and yet remains the most affected. It absorbs everything. It is not the mind you see every day. It is our shadow -- a shadow beyond comprehension.

It says, "Witness me, else you will remain weak and in control."

Carl Jung said, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

Whatever is happening with you, it is not because of fate, but because of your deepest fear called the hell inside you. This seems like nothing, but that nothing controls everything, including your best moments and your worst decisions, leading you towards dreadful situations.

Nothing sits beside me and says, "You have no fear left -- to be zero, to be inefficient, to be a fool."

Yes, I am.

Ashutosh smiles, "Like father, like son."

(Nothing Series: Visuals by Meta AI)

Wisdom is the jewellery, language is just the case

The biggest stupidity of Indians is that we consider language skills equal to intelligence, and sometimes more than intelligence.

To me, ideas and wisdom are more important than language. That is why people do PhDs on Kabir Das and Surdas, but not on Panini — the ancient grammarian and linguist of Sanskrit. Most of you may not have even heard of him, yet you all know Kabir and Surdas.

Wisdom and intellect are the jewellery; language is just the beautiful case that presents it in order. 

Kabir and Surdas are popular even though they used imperfect language - because the jewellery was real.

And this is one of the reasons why our students can't learn English properly. Deep down, they are afraid of being mocked, and they dare not speak or write.

NOTHING — Day 4

NOTHING 

Day 4: What if You are God playing to be human?

Have you ever thought about it? 

Not as a thought but as a possibility.

What if you are God, playing to be human?

This thinking is different. It does not start with the world. It starts with one question:

Who am I?

Gyan Yoga is all about finding the answer to this question. And this very question is the key.

See within. Just see.

Is there anything? Any thought? Just hold its string. Let it be there. Don't fight it. Don't fix it. Just see it.

That thought is coming out of the Self within. You are not the thought. You are the one who is seeing it.

And then comes Albert Einstein's quote — "God does not play dice."

Nothing is random. Everything is there. Every possibility exists. Perhaps you too exist in your topmost version, already.

Then the mind asks, "If everything is fixed, where is free will?"

I feel that there is free will.

Though everything is fixed, therefore every possibility does exist, there is still free will. The freedom to choose which version you align with. The freedom to witness.

But then why do we make mistakes?

Becuz...

There is grace in our failing.

In Age of Ultron, Vision said it to Ultron. And in VisionQuest, eleven years later, Ultron finally says it himself. He finally understood.

We make mistakes because the mistake itself is grace. The failing is not the opposite of perfection. It is the way perfection remembers itself.

If you were already perfect, how would you know?

So God plays to be human. Forgets himself. Fails. And in that failing, remembers who s/he is.

That is Gyan Yoga.

Just see. Just be.

Nothing

(Nothing Series: Visuals by Meta AI)