You can hear (and I am sure most Beatles fans have) Tomorrow Never Knows a lot and not know really what it is about. Basically it is saying what meditation is all about. The goal of meditation is to go beyond (that is, transcend) waking, sleeping and dreaming. So the song starts out by saying, Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream, it is not dying. Then it says, Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void - it is shining. That you may see the meaning of within - it is being. From birth to death all we ever do is think: we have one thought, we have another thought, another thought, another thought. Even when you are asleep you are having dreams, so there is never a time from birth to death when the mind isnt always active with thoughts. But you can turn off your mind, and go to the part which Maharishi described as: Where was your last thought before you thought it? The whole point is that we are the song. The self is coming from a state of pure awareness, from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in the outward manifestation of the physical world (including all the fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions) is just clutter. The true nature of each soul is pure consciousness. So the song is really about transcending and about the quality of the transcendent. I am not too sure if John actually fully understood what he was saying. He knew he was onto something when he saw those words and turned them into a song. But to have experienced what the lyrics in that song are actually about? I dont know if he fully understood it. George Harrison
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:54:40 +0000
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