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.