Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

06. Sadhana through Meditation

Fragment ID: 1415

When one tries to meditate, there is a pressure to go inside, lose the waking consciousness and wake inside, in a deep inner consciousness. But at first the mind takes it for a pressure to go to sleep, since sleep is the only kind of inner consciousness to which it has been accustomed. In yoga by meditation sleep is therefore often the first difficulty – but if one perseveres, then gradually the sleep changes to an inner conscious state.