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Some aspirants who fall asleep during meditation welcome this as a good sign. They talk vaguely of yoga-sleep. I would not wish to deprive them of such a pleasurable state, but it is perhaps pardonable to point out that sleep is not samadhi. The state of utter blankness in such a sleep, however blissful, is poles apart from the state of supreme alertness and positive consciousness of Self in samadhi.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 466