Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1935
Fragment ID: 16937
1935
Most of my nights are spent in very ordinary dreams. That is why I don’t prefer to sleep much. Nineteen waking hours are passed with a close intimacy with the Mother and five hours with a close contact with the dark obscurity of the earth.
By not sleeping enough you weaken the forces of the physical consciousness – and so the physical basis of the sadhana is less strong than it should be. It gets more open to the forces of inertia.