[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c7.1163 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1163 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1163 - **Language:** English ### [c7.1163](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1163) 3) Suṣupti. The third state of the individual soul is suṣupti (profound sleep). The soul alone is active in this state. In suṣupti the individual soul desires for nothing and does not indulge in dream. In this state the individual soul does not think that the soul and the body are two. So it is unitary. The sleeper is called ‘Prājña’ also. The individual soul which is in the state of sleep, completely severs its connection with the organs of senses, the organs of action, mind, the Prāṇamayakośa (the chest of the life-breaths), the manomaya kośa (the cask of mind) and Vijñānamaya Kośa, the chest of knowledge orunderstanding. The mind, the sense organs, Sūkṣmaśarīra (the suble body) and the actions are the items which could abandon the connection with jīvātmā (individual soul). In sleep the jīvātmā separating all its connections, for the time being, with these items absorbs itself in the Brahman. See what the author of the Upaniṣad says about the state of Suṣupti (Sleep).³ As an eagle folds its wings and falls down weary and tired, after flying round in the air for a long time, the individual soul, avoiding all desires and having no dreams, takes rest. The soul sleeps in the nāḍī, with seventytwo thousand branches called ‘hita’, like a child or a King or Brahman. During sleep the mind, senses etc. are not destroyed. They only keep away. They reappear when the man wakes up from sleep.⁴ - [Previous: c7.1162](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1162) - [Next: c7.1164](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1164) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1163](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1163) · Pramāṇa