Why does the bodily energy during sleep?

From: Deepak K

During sleep, why is it that the body doesn’t have energy and it needs support though soul is present within the body. Where does that energy to do activities come from…if it comes from the soul, then the body should have energy for self support even during sleep.

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that’s why he sanctions our desires During sleep why is it that the body doesn’t have energy and needs support through soul though soul is present within the body where does that energy to do activities come from if it comes from the soul then the body should have energy for self support even during sleep answer yes the energy of the body comes from the soul during the waking time and during the sleeping time but the level of connection between the soul and the body is lesser during the sleep time and that is why the level of energy and activity and perception becomes much much lower during sleep time in the Upanishads as well as in the Srimad Bhagavatam it is described that the embodied soul’s consciousness shuttles, moves between four stages the current stage that we are in, the waking stage is called as Jagruti the sleeping stage in which we experience dreams is called as Swapna the stage in which we sleep and experience no dreams at all very deep dreamless sleep is called as Sushupti and beyond that the stage of spiritual realization is called as Samadhi so to better understand this we need to understand a little bit about the Vedic Sankhya understanding of how soul interacts with matter the soul is presently covered by a subtle body and a gross body so you can imagine a one point soul covered by two coverings, one is the subtle that is the mind, inclination and palsy second is the gross body that we normally call as our physical body which we can see as our body and other people’s body subtle body is invisible so the soul’s consciousness is rooted through the subtle body then through the gross body and through the external world for example when a person sees a bird flying overhead so it is the soul who is conscious the soul’s consciousness is rooted through the mind, the subtle body then it comes to the brain to the eyes and the eyes see outwards to the bird so when the soul’s consciousness is connected through the subtle body and through the gross body to the external world that state is called as jaagriti when the soul goes into another state of consciousness when its consciousness is connected primarily to the subtle body and not to the gross body so that is the time when we experience dreams, we experience a lot of things happening but our physical body in itself doesn’t experience much of it so there may be some residual effects of that experience for example if we dream that we are running away from a tiger we may wake up and find ourselves sweating and panting heavily so these are the residual effects of that mental experience on the physical body but the body itself was not running so at that time in the softness stage the soul through its consciousness connects only up to the subtle body but not to the gross body and the connection with the gross body is still there because the soul is still attached to that particular body and has a particular amount of time to live in that body but the soul is not going to be is not consciously acting through the gross body at that time so that is why the perception, energy and activity level of the person during the sleeping stage is much lesser now during the sushupti stage the connection between the soul and the body becomes minimal the consciousness is not rooted even through the subtle body practically speaking and that is why the person doesn’t even have dreams so basically the soul’s consciousness is withdrawn into itself is not directed anywhere it’s like a person is watching a TV screen, through the TV screen he is watching some cricket match going on somewhere that is at one level so that is like the normal way he sits the jayagruthi stage where through the subtle body, through the gross body they connect to the external world but when the person closes his eyes he is not looking anywhere else his consciousness is contained within himself that is the stage of the sushupti now beyond that if the soul connects his consciousness with the spiritual level where the God and his all pervading effulgence and the soul may be in the particular body that is inhabiting but the consciousness is transported to the spiritual realm that is called as jayagruthi sorry that is called as samadhi so in the samadhi stage the body is physically there and the body is not dead but it is inactive like in sleep stage but it is not inactive in the sense of being on the bed in a sleep person may be sitting erect in a particular posture that was conducive for the attainment of samadhi but the consciousness is connected with the spiritual realm so that is the samadhi stage so to summarize why is the energy of the soul of the person lesser during sleep stage because the connection of the soul which is the source of the energy with the body is decreased