Drawing within is not the same as controlling the senses. Drawing within is trying to shut out an environement which one has found to be awful. But one will never find happiness that way, because the pain actually lies within.

We need to move from naievity to innocence. The black time is like a transition stage from naievity to innocence (as our good friend here has given the example of bardo). In the naieve stage of childhood we thought everything was lovely, that all was there to serve us. And then we awoke...and found it was ghastly. That entities in the environment had little love like ourself, selfishness. So the child then decides to withdraw...

We need to move through the black time, as quickly as we can. And move to the new child, who is not naieve any longer. 'Be as children' said Christ, 'to see the kingdom'. A new child. Full of 'innocence' and joy. Searching for the kingdom, which is found in the 'other'.

When we begin to see 'the other' we have moved beyond the world of selfishness...and taken the first step toward love.

We are all born with some degree of autism. The baby tries to survive, and sees with limited vision all around it, a food source. The baby grows in imagination to a child. The child imagines to become an adolescent. Then we become adult...

We need to re-imagine what is outside of ourself. Then we will begin to see what is outside is the same as what is inside of ourself...'the need to love the other'.

If we can by some good fortune awaken to see Krsna everywhere...black days will not remain.

That has been my experience of life when I became a man. Take care sailu...search for truth...you will find!

From 'naievity to innocence'.