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Deep Sleep (Suṣupti)

Dreamless rest: no world, no dreams — a peaceful near-blankness, yet someone was there to enjoy it.

Suṣupti is dreamless deep sleep — the state in which both the outer world and the inner dream-world fall away, leaving a quiet, undivided rest. There are no objects here and no images, only a peaceful near-blankness; yet one wakes saying 'I slept well,' so some awareness must have been present. The contemplative traditions take this as a vital clue: a taste of consciousness without objects, though still veiled by a kind of unknowing.

How it traveled

  1. Upadeśasāhasrī
    Kālaḍi (Kaladi) · 710
    explains
  2. Vivekacūḍāmaṇi
    Śṛṅgeri (Sringeri) · 1400
    explains

Key passages(18)

Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

Very high

Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

Very high

Aṣṭāvakra-gītā · Aṣṭāvakra

Very high

Paramārthasāra · Abhinavagupta

Very high

Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

Very high

Chāndogya Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Tantrasāra · Abhinavagupta

High

Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)

High

Praśna Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)

High

Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

High

Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

High

Vijñāna-bhairava · Anonymous (Bhairava Āgama / Tantra)

High

Spanda-kārikā · Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa

High

Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

High

Haṭhayoga-pradīpikā · Svātmārāma

Moderate

Spanda-kārikā · Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa

Moderate

Śiva-stotrāvalī · Utpaladeva

Moderate