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Passages similar to: 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
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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...
Mandukya Upanishad
Mandukya Upanishad
The third quarter is consciousness (prājña) deep sleep, where there are no objects to desire nor any dreams to see. In the sleep state experience is...
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...
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,...
Mandukya Upanishad
Mandukya Upanishad
It is not the knower of the inner (dream state) nor the outer (wakeful state) nor the knower of both; it is not a mass of consciousness and it is not...
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...
Mandukya Upanishad
Mandukya Upanishad
The letter “M” is the state of deep sleep, the consciousness (prājña). It is the third aspect due to its being the measure or from becoming one....
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...
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.20)
Where the mind rests restrained by the practice of yoga, and where the self seeing the Self is delighted in the Self; and where established, the yogi...
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.
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