So sleeping is like temporary death?

Expressions researched:
"So sleeping is like temporary death"

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Yes. All deaths are temporary. When you change bodies, you die for seven months. This death is for few hours, and that is for seven months. That's all.

Morning Walk -- June 3, 1976, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: They, unless the seer returns back, the body will lie down. That is death. The seer no more comes back. Then it is dead.

Hṛdayānanda: Yes, sometimes a man dies in his sleep.

Prabhupāda: It is dead.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So sleeping is like temporary death.

Prabhupāda: Yes. All deaths are temporary. When you change bodies, you die for seven months. This death is for few hours, and that is for seven months. That's all.

Bharadvāja: What happens when he dreams of the spiritual master or Kṛṣṇa?

Prabhupāda: That's all right. Dreaming means he's seeing. The seer is the same.