Chapter 17Sleep · Sleep and Sadhana

Sadhana can go on in the dream or sleep state as well as in the waking.

* Once one is in full sadhana, sleep becomes as much a part of it as waking.

* If the sleep becomes conscious even for a time, then experience and sadhana of itself can go on in the sleep state and not only in the waking condition.

* It is usually only if there is much activity of sadhana in the day that it extends also into the sleep state.

* There is no reason at all why intensity of sadhana should bring insufficient sleep.

* If you feel the need of sleep you ought to sleep. The pressure of sadhana should not be allowed to become excessive.

* It [sleepiness during the day] may possibly be due to the attempt of the higher consciousness to descend then. It sometimes pro-duces this effect of sleepiness on the body, for the physical attempts to go inside to meet the descending consciousness and if it is not accustomed to enter into one of the higher samadhis on such occasions, the going inside translates itself to the physical as sleep. The exercise may have contributed, of course, by its reaction on the body.