10/08/2017

Awareness during sleep

AWARENESS DURING SLEEP

Q: How can sadhana become uninterrupted since it is necessary to sleep?

Anandamayi Ma: When one becomes established in ceaseless practice it continues also during sleep.

Question: How can one know this?

Ma: If one meditates before retiring and wakes up in the same kind of state with which one fell asleep one can presume that it has gone on throughout the sleep.

Question: But during sleep, one does not know.

Ma: No, not in this case. Although there is a much higher state when one is conscious even in sleep.

- Death Must Die, p. 521