Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Volume III - Part 3

Fragment ID: 12827

It [a tendency to fall asleep while meditating] is the result of the attempt to go above. It is not sleep that comes, but a tendency to go inside under the pressure – the old Yogas did this going above precisely in this way, by going into samadhi. For us, it has to come in the waking condition – for until it does, it cannot be made the basis for a new consciousness governing the life.