SLEEP- Do we really know what it is ??

易 1. Biological Significance — The Restoration of Life

Sleep is when life repairs itself:

The brain clears toxins and resets chemical balance.

Memories are sorted, emotions are filed.

Hormones that rebuild tissues, balance mood, and regulate energy are released.

Without sleep, the body loses coherence — it literally starts to fall apart, physically and mentally.
So, sleep is the nightly rebirth of the organism — a rehearsal of death and renewal.

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️ 2. Psychological Significance — The Cleansing of the Mind

While awake, we accumulate impressions, worries, and noise.
During sleep — especially in deep and REM stages — the mind disentangles itself from its own web.
Dreams allow the psyche to process what cannot be reasoned out in words.
That’s why a problem sometimes feels lighter after you “sleep on it.”

Sleep is not the absence of consciousness; it’s the retreat of consciousness into its source to regain purity.

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️ 3. Spiritual Significance — The Daily Return to the Source

In many Indian and mystical traditions, sleep is the closest natural state to samadhi (pure awareness):

In deep sleep, there is no ego, no “I,” no desire, no time.

Yet life continues — the heart beats, breath flows.

That means something beyond the mind sustains us even when “we” are gone.

So every night, unknowingly, we return to the divine stillness from which life first emerged.
It’s as if creation itself pauses within us to remind us: you are not just the doer; you are the being.

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 4. Symbolic Significance — The Rhythm of Existence

Wakefulness and sleep form a yin–yang cycle of human existence:

Wakefulness Sleep

Action Restoration
Expression Absorption
Creation Dissolution
Ego Source

Without sleep, wakefulness loses meaning.
Without silence, sound is noise.
Without pause, life becomes strain.

Thus, sleep is the teacher of balance — showing us that even the sun must set to rise again.

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 In Essence

Sleep is not just rest — it is return.
A daily pilgrimage back to the root of life,
where the mind dissolves, and being itself is refreshed.

When you awaken each morning, you are not the same person who went to sleep — you are reborn, slightly renewed, with a little more of life’s mystery flowing through you.

–Mehta918