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The Need to Maintain Balance Between Waking, Dream and Sleep Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The operation of the gunas of nature.
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  Suppah, rajas and tamas. Is noticeable in the spiritual
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  Quest as in everything else. The result is that when
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  something new or exciting occurs, it tends to provoke the
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  rising of rajas and an attempt to grasp and enhance the ego
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  gratification of the event Rogers.
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  However, has its limitations and eventually there is a reaction
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  that either brings on the rise of Thomas in the forms of
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  ignorant. Darkness or Ian, or if balanced
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  it, can bring the rise of software.
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  SRI aurobindo cautions that has real experiences arise in the
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  sleep or dream states. The practitioner of the yoga
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  will be tempted to invest more time and focus on these states
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  than on the activities of the waking state in order to further
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  the experiences and gain the powers that come with it.
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  He cautions against allowing the encroachment on the province of
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  the waking State. However, Rather a balance should
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  be developed that keeps each state in its own time and place
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  and works to enhance the process in each one within its own
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  sphere. This requires a sub quick
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  approach to the investigation of the sleep and dream states that
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  avoids, the ego self aggrandizement, that the vital
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  nature would otherwise encourage SRI, aurobindo writes quote,
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  when this growth of the inner sleep Consciousness begins,
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  there is often a pole to go inside and pursue the
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  development even when there is no fatigue or need of sleep,
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  another Cause AIDS, this pull. It is usually the vital part of
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  the inner being that first wakes in sleep and the first Dream
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  experiences as opposed to ordinary dreams, are usually in
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  the great Mass experiences of the vital plane, a world of
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  super physical life, full of variety and interest with many
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  provinces luminous or obscure beautiful or perilous often.
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  Really attractive where we can get much knowledge to both of
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  our concealed parts of nature. And of things happening to us
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  behind the veil. And of others, which are of
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  concern for the development of our parts of nature.
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  The vital being in us, then may get very much attracted to the
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  range of experience may want to live more in it and less in the
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  outer life. This would be the source of that
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  wanting to get back to something interesting and enthralling,
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  which accompanies the desire to fall into sleep But this must
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  not be encouraged in waking hours, it should be kept for our
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  set apart for Sleep, where it gets its natural field.
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  Otherwise, there may be an unbalancing a tendency to live
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  more and too much in the visions of the super physical Realms and
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  a decrease of the hold on outer realities.
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  The knowledge, the enlargement of our consciousness of these
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  fields of inner nature is very desirable but it must be kept in
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  its own place and limits and quote reference SRI aurobindo,
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  integral yoga. SRI aurobindo is teaching and
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  method of practice, chapter 7, experiences and realizations
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  experiences in dream Pages 1996 to 1999.