Jornada com a Yoga, data estimada de publicação: Agosto de 2026

I like that the dream state is drawn as a loop on the right side, as most people are really looping in the bubble of their own fabrications during dreams. I mean, one can experience reality as it is, without colouring it, one can experience reality purely like this during awaken and deep sleep (see later). But during dreams it is all about looping around in those fabrications and creating your own “reality”.

Pure consciousness is not exactly a fourth state among awaken, dreaming, deep-sleep. Pure consciousness is more something that can shed light into any of these three states. Pure consciousness is non-coincidentally is drawn above and apart, disjoint, disconnected from the other shapes (like a sun or moon at the top shining down on different things).

It is common that some people, and many yogis and meditators will experience lucid, conscious dreaming. That is when the pure consciousness pricks the bubble of the dreams or removes the clouds over dreams and can shine there. ...

This also explains why some yogis paint three horizontal lines on their forefronts (≡), in front of the eye of their mind (see Sivananda’s painting on the first chapters). It is perhaps a way of saying that one can be present during (1). awaken; (2). dream and (3). deep sleep states. This is usually true when they paint three horizontal lines. When they paint 3 vertical likes like a trident (Ψ) it means transcendence from duality, two lines represent duality and the central one the transcendence. The number three is used symbolically like this in many other contexts. No wonder the Om letter looks like the Devanagari number three: ३ and our Arabic number three: 3.

For instance, “a girl goes to the market with her mother and the mother does not let her eat cherries. Later she goes to sleep, and dreams she is having a bucket of cherries” – Dr. C. Charuri. After that dream, everything is sorted out and the girl wakes-up feeling better.

What this seal communicates is so deep, that I will need the whole of chapter 9 (some of the conclusion on yoga) to explain it.

The three faces are completely in alignment with the triptych painting from Giorgio Kienerk that I present later on the chapter “The No-God, Not-Thinks No-Thoughts”. In the painting one can look to (1). Left side (pain); (2). the other side pleasure or (3). straight ahead or upwards transcending the pairs of opposites from the sides in a state of union (through meditation). Feel free to web search this painting. I will go over it in detail later.