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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Instructions on the Symptoms of Death, or the First Stage of the Chikhai Bardo: The Primary Clear Light Seen at the Moment of Death (1.14)
The common people call this the state wherein the consciousness-principle hath fainted away. The duration of this state is uncertain. [It dependeth] upon the constitution, good or bad, and [the state of] the nerves and vital-force. In those who have had even a little practical experience of the firm, tranquil state of dhydna, and in those who have sound nerves, this state continueth for a long time.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 1 (2.1.19)
Now when one falls sound asleep (susuptci), when one knows nothing whatsoever, having crept out through the seventy-two thousand veins, called hitd,...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Three Higher Planes of Consciousness (23)
In most of these cases, while the actual consciousness has passed away after a few moments, there has been left a memory which abides ever with the...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (2)
A prolonged holding of the perceiving consciousness in that region is meditation (dhyana).
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 1 (2.1.17)
Ajatasatru said: ' When this man has fallen asleep thus, then the peison who consists of intelligence having by his intelligence taken to himself the...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.17)
'Having had enjoyment in this state of waking, having traveled around and seen good and evil, he hastens again. according to the entrance and place...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book I (19)
Subjective consciousness arising from a natural cause is possessed by those who have laid aside their bodies and been absorbed into subjective nature.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.9)
Verily, there are just two conditions of this person: the condition of being in this world and the condition of being in the other world. There is an...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.15)
£ Having had enjoyment in this state of deep sleep, having traveled around and seen good and bad, he hastens again, according to the entrance and...
Mandukya Upanishad
Mandukya Upanishad
If one asleep desires no desire whatsoever, sees no dream whatsoever that is deep sleep (suṣupta). The deep-sleep state (suṣupta-sthāna), unified...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Eternal Parent (23)
That the Eternal Parent rested in "Unconscious, dreamless sleep" is held by all advanced metaphysicians and philosophers to be a logical necessity,...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book I (10)
Sleep is the psychic condition which rests on mind states, all material things being absent.
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book III (43)
When that condition of consciousness is reached, which is far-reaching and not confined to the body, which is outside the body and not conditioned by...
The Masnavi
The Jewish King, his Vazir, and the Christians (31-40)
At night prisoners are unaware of their prison, Then there is no thought or care for loss or gain, The state of the "Knower" is such as this, even...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
Metempsychosis (15)
Reaching the vibrations of the Astral Plane, the Newly disembodied soul falls into a deep sleep, or state of coma, resembling the condition of the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 11 (1)
'When a man being asleep, reposing, and at perfect rest , sees no dreams, that is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman.'...
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (11)
'This, the firm holding back of the senses, is what is called Yoga. He must be free from thoughtlessness then, for Yoga comes and goes.'
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book IV (6)
Among states of consciousness, that which is born of Contemplation is free from the seed of future sorrow.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 4 (4.4.1)
When this self comes to weakness and to confusedness of mind, as it were, then the breaths gather around him. He takes to himself those particles of...
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (10)
'When the five instruments of knowledge stand still together with the mind, and when the intellect does not move, that is called the highest state.'
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.14)
People see his pleasure-ground; Him no one sees at all. " Therefore one should not wake him suddenly," they say. Hard is the curing for a man to whom...
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