Mail from Poojya Guruji Yoga-Nidra & Sleep
Well, further to your question regarding Dev-Shayani & Dev-Uthani
Gyaras, please note that Bhagwan Vishnu along with his entire team of Devatas, take recorse of Yoga-Nidra for four months, just as we take recourse of sleep for about a third of our one days time. Sleep rejuvenates, re-builds and in modern parlance recharges us. If it is Yoga-Nidra then it not only does all this, but even negates all moha in our minds and thus facilitates us to live a more enlightened and positive life.
Bhagwan Vishnu not only revels in Yoga Nidra but also motivates us
all to at least devote a third portion of our time for such an experience. Howsoever much complex a problem maybe, never take impulsive decisions, but first learn to sleep over any problem. Detachment helps us get a different perspective, and with a different perspective the whole scene changes. Something which was a problem is many a times seen as a stepping stone or even a blessing. So make it a habit, not only to detach from everything in your life and then again re-look at your own life in a detached way as a third person. Just as you never see the situation of the other person as a problem, but just a situation to be faced, so also we shall see for our so called problems.
Yoga is not only detachment from our worldly identities, relationships
and aspirations, but it is much more. For mere detachment sleep is enough. In Yoga we discover our true identity. Not knowing our real truth, we all attach ourselves to our body-mind complexes and then start our innings. This is V edanta Sandes h
what real moha - delusion is. So we start with a wrong and then contiue with infinte wrong. Yoga is to discover our true self after this initial detachment. It is like an actor who having donned a role has forgotten his real identity,
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