Why does my spiritual teacher say "we are pure awareness during sleep"? (please)

[Ishanga]

On 9/2/2025 at 3:57 PM, UpperMaster said:

What you said here is very interesting. I didn't know about the "High Consciousness" state. I thought the main state to attain was pure consciousness or the understanding of consciousness during deep sleep.

Also you mentioned the soul? According to you we have a soul? How does it work? 

Your view seems very different from what I am used to. I have no idea how karma works, what spiritual path have you chosen so I know more about it?

Ultimately we can be in a state of Deep Sleep but still being able to function, completely relaxed but totally alert and aware, I would imagine that is happening from the Energy level, where Your Energies (Prana, Kundalini) is intense and very active in most all the chakras, there's lots of levels to this...

I used the word Soul to represent what we are, they call it Atman in Hinduism or Yoga, Atman is the same as Brahman basically (there are other words used in Sanskrit as well), I relate it to a drop of the Ocean analogy, we are the drops, Absolute/Brahman is the Ocean itself, we are just tinier versions of it and Embodied with a Body and Mind complex... 

Karma is like the Software You have in Your Body, the Body and Brain are the Hardware.. Karma is just the residual consequence of all the Actions You have taken, action is in 4 areas, Body/Mind/Emotion/Energy, there are different types of Karma as well, there is the present day karma which we are creating each second or hour/day, there is the past karma created within this lifetime and the karma from the previous lifetimes..  Karma can also be defined as cause and affect, but its not a reward or punishment system, its just the software You have at the moment.. We can rise above the Karmic affect by Living Now Totally, Accepting Now Totally, Responding to Now Totally (vs. being reactive which is unconscious actions)..