organs, the only difference being that in sleep the outer organs are automatically controlled, while in meditation, on the contrary, the outer organs are voluntarily controlled. This produces a state of “conscious sleep.’’ The Spiritual self then experiences this state of conscious sleep, being continually disturbed by the involuntary and internal organs, e.g., lungs, heart, and other organs which we mistakenly suppose to be beyond control.[1]
We must look for a better method than this, for so long as the Spiritual self can not at will shut out all bodily sensations, even interior ones, which are the occasions of the rise of thought, but remains vulnerable to these disturbances, it can have no hope of final rest nor time or opportunity to know itself.
IV. Organic, Scientific Method. St. Paul said: “I die daily” (1 Cor. 15, 31). By
- ↑ We never know or learn how to give rest to these internal organs. Because we suppose them to be beyond control, they get overworked and suddenly stop, which stoppage we term “Death,” or the “Eternal or Great Sleep.”
