Chapter 15Sleep · Getting Good Sleep

The sleep before 12 is supposed to be the best.

* To sleep without a burdened stomach is obviously more healthy, both psychologically and physically.

* I don’t think the lack of sleep when it comes is due to want of work; for even those who do no work at all, get good sleep. It is something else; but it must be got over.

* It is restlessness in you which prevents you from keeping still inwardly or outwardly. To sleep well the vital and physical and mind also must learn how to relax themselves and be quiet.

* Obviously — it [reading a novel before going to bed] threw you into a tamasic consciousness and consequently the sleep was heavy in a gross subconsciousness and the fatigue was the result.

* You should not jump up from sleep. Rise quietly and take a little time. You must give time for the consciousness to come back fully into the body.