Is It Sleep, Or Is It Samadhi?

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When the consciousness moves
inward, away from the awareness

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of the external reality, it is
frequently interpreted as sleep

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by those who experience it for
the first time.

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The reason they believe it is
sleep is due to a lack of

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communication between that
inward state of consciousness

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and the outward external
awareness and the identification

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with the known conception of
sleep, which in some ways mimics

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the action of samadhi with
respect to the absence of

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conscious attention of the
external waking ego personality.

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Swami Vivekananda in his
lectures on Raja Yoga states the

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following quote.
There is a still higher plane

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upon which the mind can work.
It can go beyond consciousness.

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Just as unconscious work is
beneath consciousness, so there

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is another work which is above
consciousness and which also is

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not accompanied with the feeling
of egoism.

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The feeling of egoism is only on
the middle plane.

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When the mind is above or below
that line.

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There is no feeling of I and yet
the mind works.

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When the mind goes beyond this
line of self consciousness, it

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is called samadhi or
superconsciousness.

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How, for instance, do we know
that a man in samadhi has not

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gone below consciousness, has
not degenerated instead of going

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higher?
In both cases the works are

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unaccompanied with egoism.
The answer is by the effects, by

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the results of the work.
We know that which is below and

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that which is above.
When a man goes into deep sleep,

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he enters a plane beneath
consciousness.

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He works the body all the time.
He breathes, he moves the body,

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perhaps in his sleep, without
any accompanying feeling of ego.

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He is unconscious, and when he
returns from his sleep he is the

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same man who went into it.
The sum total of the knowledge

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which he had before he went into
the sleep remains the same.

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It does not increase at all.
No enlightenment comes.

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But when a man goes into samati,
if he goes into it a fool, he

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comes out a sage.
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He continues quote.
What makes the difference?

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From one state a man comes out,
the very same man that went in,

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and from another state the man
comes out enlightened, a sage, a

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prophet, a St.
His whole character changed, his

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life changed, illumined.
These are the two effects.

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Now the effects being different,
the causes must be different as

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this illumination with which a
man comes back from samadhi is

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much higher than can be got from
unconsciousness or much higher

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than can be got by reasoning in
a conscious state, It must

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therefore be super consciousness
and Samadi is called the Super

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conscious state.
End Quote.

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Srioro Bindo notes quote.
It was not half sleep or quarter

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sleep or even 116th sleep that
you had.

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It was a going inside of the
consciousness, which in that

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state remains conscious, but
shut to outer things and open

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only to inner experience.
You must distinguish clearly

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between these two quite
different conditions. 1 is

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nidra, the other the beginning
at least of samadhi, not

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nirvikalpa.
Of course this drawing inside is

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necessary because the active
mind of the human being is at

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first too much turn to outward
things.

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It has to go inside all together
in order to live in the inner

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being, inner mind, inner vital,
inner physical, psychic.

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But with training one can arrive
at a point when 1 remains

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outwardly conscious and yet
lives in the inner being and has

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it will the indrawn or the
outpoured condition.

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You can then have the same dense
immobility and the same in

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pouring of a greater and pure
consciousness in the waking

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state as in that which you
erroneously call sleep.

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End Quote Reference Sri
Aurobindo Basis of Yoga Chapter

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5 Physical consciousness,
Subconscious sleep and dream

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illness Page one O 3.