Last night while I was concentrating lying in bed I entered into a half-wakeful state which made me a little afraid. I tried to fall asleep but the state of concentration would not leave me. At last sleep came. Is this an intermediate stage?Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1. 1933
Letter ID: 1105
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
April 23, 1933
Last night while I was concentrating lying in bed I entered into a half-wakeful state which made me a little afraid. I tried to fall asleep but the state of concentration would not leave me. At last sleep came. Is this an intermediate stage?
Yes. I don’t know why you should have any fear! It is a quite usual experience of the concentrated state when one is going inside.
As the meditation deepens, a sense of pressure is felt on the head. I don’t suppose it is anything abnormal?
It is on the contrary the most normal thing everybody feels at a certain initial stage.
I hear that one can pray for a friend and write to you about him.
Yes; but don’t do it for people who have not the turn for Yoga. Each has his own movement – his own time in this life or another.