Yogis Who Sleep In
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before May 16, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Getting up early to meditate during the yogic tradition period which is between 4.30 and 6 am is somewhat unnatural since usually the body wants to sleep at that time, to put in its last enjoyable snooze
And still that is the best time to meditate because then the minds in the area of the planet where one resides, are mostly involved in sleeping, where ideas images and the like are mostly shut down, where there is the least static in the telepathic transmission zones.
One great benefit of meditating at that time is that to do it, one has to escape from materialistic astral association. One also escapes from hip friends who though they are interested in talking about spiritual life, have no interest in doing the yogic austerities which would help to consolidate some real progress in self realization. These friends may be pot heads, dope addict, music freaks, winos, LSD heads, sex maniacs and pleasure addicts, all who are non-conformists as far as the establishment is concerned. These people are cool to be sure, but they do not have the impetus required to pursue a stiff yoga practice in terms of the methods left behind by siddhas like Gorakshnath and Chaurangi.
If a student is serious he or she will have to escape from all sorts of materialistic and non-materialistic association so as to rise early in the morning to practice. And don’t grumble in a corner thinking: Who says yoga has to be done early? Why the judgment about when it is done? What does it matter? What does time have to do with it?
Forget those sentiments and just hear me out.
To rise early one has to get to bed early. Are you able to do that? What is occupying your attention so that you cannot get to bed at least by 9.30 pm? There are some people who live in places like New York City. Sometimes they must rise at about 5 am to catch the train to Manhattan. These people do this loyally every day, day in and day out. But if you ask them to do that on weekends so as to facilitate an early meditation, they turn a cold shoulder towards you. So why is that? Why is there an argument about rising early to meditate but none about rising early to make a dollar?
Think about that before you jump in with any arguments about this!
To rise early to meditate you have to be in tune with the yogis who are making that sacrifice in your area. Birds of a feather, the saying says, flock together. But who can go to bed early at night? Is it that you just can’t sleep early because you are having menopause or because in a male body you are heading for Alzheimer’s. Or because you are still establishing your independence from your parents who used to insist on a 7 pm bed time when you were growing up? Well if that is the case, then we have to accept that as your reality, your position assigned by nature in an aging body.
Then we have to bow to nature and realize its awesome power!
