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background to the day or otherwise the day is the stage and the night the green
room, that is to say, what­ever is expressed in the day, all your activities
physical or mental, are in a large part determined or coloured by your
activities at night in sleep. The day represents your conscious activities,
products of choice and the exercise of conscious will, but of the night we are
wholly unconscious and we have no control over its hidden activities. Even so,
it exercises a tremendous influence on the life of the day. The mood, the
rhythm in the sleep-state colours, as I say, very much the mood and rhythm of
the active life of the day. The contrary also is true. For the nature of the
day-life has an influence also on the nature of the night that follows.</p>

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the day-life is consciously controlled, so also the night - life has to be
controlled. Otherwise half of our life goes to waste. As we seek to utilise the
day to our benefit we must know in the same way how to utilise the night.
Indeed the night and the day must work together in union for a common purpose.
The Vedic Rishi says, &quot;The Night and the Day, although they look
different, are of one mind.&quot;</p>

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have control over the night one must, first of all, be conscious of what
happens in the night, that is to say, one must remember the events that occur
in sleep. Usually one forgets and cannot recall easily the experiences that one
has gone through while asleep. The first exercise then is, as soon as you
awake, to retain whatever happens to linger still in memory, and then with this
as the leading string to go backward to happenings associated with it. Even
otherwise when you cannot recall any particular happening or experience, you
can begin your enquiry by noting the nature of the feeling that 
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on you, that is to say, you note whether you passed a good night or a bad
night. A bad night means either a tamasic state or a disturbed state. Tamasic
means when you get up you feel inert, heavy, dep­ressed, still feeling like
going to sleep again. The disturbed state is one in which you feel agitated,
unable to control, unable to do any organised work. Instead of this unhappy
condition the night may bring to you peace and happiness, a positively
pleasurable sensation. That is the first step of the discipline of what I may
call night-control viz. to distinguish these two states and react accordingly
through your conscious will. The next step would be to distinguish two other
categories of the experiences. The one is the confused and chaotic condition in
which sensations and ideas and impulsions are in a jumble, a meaningless whirl
or otherwise you find your sensations or notions or impulsions moving in an
organised and purposeful way. The first naturally brings you discomfort and
sadness, the second, on the contrary, gives you a sense of uncommon happiness.</p>

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are occasions when the dream experience comes to you with a clear authenticity
as if you were taking part in a real drama. Everything is happening truly and
undisputably exactly like a happening in the normal life. Indeed when it is
happening you feel it is happening in your waking life. You find the difference
only when you wake up. As a matter of fact it is a region very near to the
material world running parallel to it. And at times we are lifted bodily as it
were into it and the experiences and adventures we go through are very
analogous to those in normal life. Still when we are awake and compare the two,
we notice there is a difference in pattern and movement. Yet there are other
experiences of quite a different nature. You feel and see, you are transported
to a region made, it would appear, of elements of a different kind. The
atmosphere gives a different feel from the earthly atmos­phere, there is a
light which seems to have a different vibration, even the earth there, for the
earth still exists, is made of different density and solidity. These are the
worlds perhaps, which Sri Aurobindo refers to when he speaks of &quot;the other
earths.&quot; Beings and things have a happy, a pure beauty in their form and
movement. This does not come to you merely as a thought<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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very concrete reality in which you live and move and have your being. your
sleep-world is full of many worlds, rising tier 
<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">upon tier </span> like hills in a
mountain range. Quite at the bottom is an almost physical, a subtle physical
world and at the top is the world of the spiritual or psychic being or
consciousness. You range through all of them in some way or other but you
remember only partially and in snippets and you do not know which is which. It
is by focussing your attention upon them and trying to distinguish the
different modes of each in regard to your feeling and perception that you
gradually begin to unravel them, untie the knots and spread out the threads
separately.</p>
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