This evening the idea of sleep was mentioned. The Master said:

"At night you go to bed; you leave your body; you feel as if you move, but your body rests unmoved. Your body has one consciousness, and you - another. You move, but you are afraid that the connection may be broken and you return. You cannot tell your ordinary consciousness about that which is unmeasurable and which you have experienced on high. The ordinary consciousness tells you, 'Go. Go, but not too far away! '

"In the evening - because there are no conditions for work here -we leave our bodies and go somewhere else to work. Meanwhile, others work on our bodies. Nature is like a prudent mother. When people sleep, She cleans the house, the body, and renews it, so that upon awakening we can continue our work. During the time of sleep, the soul leaves the body. During this time, the Intelligent Beings set to work on the body's cells in order to renew them and restore the interrupted rhythm.

"When a person goes to bed, he needs to pray that the body may be protected and shielded from evil influences during the time of sleep. Negative, morbid states can pass from one person to another. This happens especially during the time of sleep. Man needs to observe the Law of psychic protection. In other words, when a person goes to bed in the evening, he needs to protect his body. On the other hand, be thankful to your evolved Friends who protect your bodies when you are separate from them during the time of sleep. Otherwise, you would find them attacked and vandalized.

"Sometimes you cannot sleep well because of over-exhaustion, having used excess energy to accomplish an insignificant task. This is as if you wanted to drive a small nail into the wall by pounding it with great force. Put in other words: you worry too much over small things. Was it necessary to use so much force for such a small nail?

"Not much sleep is needed to be truly rested. Before going to bed, a person needs to free himself of all adversities and negative conditions through which he has passed during the day. Your mind and heart need to be emptied of all conflicts. If the body, mind and heart of man are not at rest when he falls asleep, he will stray into the astral world, and not find the School where the Laws of that world are studied. When he awakens, he is dissatisfied: he has understood nothing. Man also learns when he sleeps.

"When a person suffers from sleeplessness, he should get up from his bed, rub his body with a cloth and warm water, wash his feet in warm water and go to bed again. His sleep will be refreshing.

"One peculiarity of the astral world is that events are experienced in symbols, in images. For this reason, some dreams are symbolic. You dream that you have entered a house and are being chased out. You enter another house; you are chased out again. The house represents the body. During sleep, you enter someone's body thinking that it belongs to you. But it is not yours, and you depart. You enter another body thinking it is yours; again you leave, and so on.

"When a person sleeps, between his spiritual and physical bodies exists a bond. When a person returns unnaturally into his body - for example, when frightened - it is possible for an entanglement to happen with the etheric double of another person.

"In order to have a genuine encounter with someone on high during the time of sleep, one must have the purest and best thoughts about him. If you occupy your mind with his shortcomings, you will not be able to meet him."