Sleep vs Meditation

Let me begin by fashioning a question. 

What happens after sleep deprivation?

You might have faced it , many a time

As if you were a victim of combustion.

 Now fancy a morning, after a deep sleep

When you felt, the experience was unique.

You did not know, where you had been to

But it looked like you had been to a retreat!

In sleep, your body remained lying here

& you went places, you know not where.

You talked and did many things in a body

Of a make other than the one lying here.

After dreams, you went into a deep trance

& you remember not of the happenstance.

All that you recall , after coming out of it

Is a feeling of renewal , at the first glance.

Unlike sleep, in meditation, you are aware

And the whole journey looks like a prayer.

You go to your abode where silence reigns

As a vast shimmering mass of divine fare.

In your sleep you visit this place every day

In a body that is nonidentical in every way.

It is meditation that shows that you come

From silence's & light's beatific interplay.

So let us tap this seraphic meditative fare

To access our ever abiding inner treasure.

Let us give our dear material body its due,

But we are always, and angelic, to be sure.

Om Shantih

Ajit Sambodhi.