Re: Questions About AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Sleep

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! Welcome to the NITAAI.com Forums Gunjan. We surely hope you will be able to regulate your morning Naama Bhajana to attain success in Bhakti.

One practical tip to reduce sleep or to receive sound quality sleep in less time and thus remain active in Bhakti is to do Shavaasana (the dead man pose) for 5-10 minutes a few times in a day whenever one feels tired. In Shavaasana, while meditating on the Holy Names, one should lie down on one's back with bodily parts freely stretched and imagine that one is aloof from the body and that one is the soul in the center of the heart. Begin withdrawing your consciousness from the toes, ankles, calves, knees, thighs, waist, stomach, heart, arms, shoulder, neck, mouth, nose, ears,, head etc. and gradually feel that all these bodily parts are inert, without consciousness, simply dead matter {which is the truth }.  Just in 10 minutes of this exercise, your body will feel so fresh, as if you have slept for many hours. All your bodily parts will feel rejuvenated. So one can begin the Lord's service more enthusiastically and you will also learn that you are body but the spirit soul dwelling within the body.

Daaso'smi, Swami Gaurangapada.

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