July 14

The silence of deep sleep is conducive to liberation. In it the prana or life-force is neither restrained nor promoted, the senses are neither fed nor starved, the perception of diversity is neither expressed nor suppressed, the mind is neither mind nor non-mind. There is no division and hence no effort at abolishing it; it is called the silence of deep sleep and one who is established in it may not meditate. There is knowledge of what IS as it is and there is freedom from doubt. It is utter emptiness. It is supportless. It is of the nature of supreme peace of which it can neither be said that it is real nor that it is unreal. That state in which one knows "there is no I," nor another, no mind nor anything derived from the mind, in which one knows "I is but an idea in the universe, and it is really pure existence"--that is known as the silence of deep sleep.