0:00 [Music] Look, the need of someone's life is not sleep, the need of the body is rest. Sleep is just a form of rest. Many people have started thinking that if someone in Tamil Nadu says that they are resting, it means that they are sleeping. Not always. You can rest while sitting. You can rest while
0:46 standing. You were running and then stood up. Does it feel like rest? You stood up and then sat down. Does it feel like rest? Rest can be taken in many ways. The most important thing is that rest means that you are changing the energy equation where the energy consumption is less but the energy production is going on at the same rate. As a result, after a certain time, you feel like you have got a new life because since the consumption has been reduced, basically you are managing the energy equation. If you work a lot, the energy consumption is more. The energy that you are producing is not enough. As a result, after a while you feel tired because the consumption has become too high.
1:33 If you reduce the consumption and increase the production, then after a while you feel full of energy. Suppose you run a mile standing and then let's say you are not able to take another step. And many of you are running in the Isha Marathon. Isha Vidya So after running 42 kilometers, it's okay, no matter how many kilometers, after a mile or two, you can't take another step, then don't eat or drink anything, just sit down for 10 minutes, you will see that you are feeling refreshed again, right? Not only are you reducing your energy expenditure, your energy production is still the same. Look again, there are many ways to do more with less energy expenditure.
2:22 But there is a certain state of ease, when I say ease, most people may not understand what it is because most people are not in an easy state. If you are completely easy, if the machine runs smoothly, everything is at ease, so it is always at rest, at rest. In this way, it is very restful all day long. For example, if you sleep in the afternoon, you have noticed that at night, you can't sleep as much. Right, and you were already testing this. I
3:10 understand that if you sleep in the afternoon, you can't sleep as much at night, unless you are sick or very tired for some reason. Because you have had a good rest during the day, you ca n't sleep at night, so you don't have to sleep. Even if you are sitting here, your body should be If you take rest, you will see that your sleeping time will naturally decrease. How to improve the quality of sleep? Don't try to improve the quality of sleep. Ideally, saving life means that I don't have to sleep at all. But that is not possible. For now, since there is still some laziness in the body, the body sleeps as needed. The rest of
3:56 the time, the body is at rest. If you keep it in a state of easy rest, then the body does not need sleep. Unless it gets tired to a certain extent, the body never wants to sleep, but of course it wants rest or rest. If you do n't know how to sit in a state of rest, then it will want to rest in this way. If you can sit here completely comfortably, then it will sit for hours without falling asleep. Otherwise, the body knows only this one way to rest. So don't try to improve the quality of sleep. Nothing like
4:43 this happens. Just learn to consciously keep your body in an easy state and at rest. If you sit here now, you can do this simple thing. You can come down here and sit here. Just take your attention from your head to your toes and see everything in a state of easy, pleasant rest. Are you relaxed or are you sitting tense and just bringing your body to a simple state? I know that everything is not within your awareness as much as possible, but as much as you can consciously bring it to a simple state, then you will suddenly see that if you are a person who falls asleep at ten o'clock, you just sit here easily for an hour, you will see that your sleep time will be delayed by another half an hour. At ten
5:30 o'clock you will not be able to sleep anymore. You will naturally be awake. So instead of trying to increase the quality of your sleep, if you increase the quality of your life, if you improve your life, improving your life means that nothing in your life, no matter what you do in life, starting from simple breathing to any complex task in life, its quality will never increase unless you can do it effortlessly. So only when you can do something absolutely effortlessly, let's say you are riding a bicycle, if you ride it like this, you cannot say that you are enjoying cycling, if you can ride it effortlessly,
6:17 so effortlessly that even if you let go of your hands, the bicycle will still go straight in the direction you want to go. You are at ease in this inner state. The quality of your cycling has improved because of the ease of mind, so there is a relationship between these two things, so if you increase the quality of life, naturally the sleep time will decrease. If your quality of life decreases, you will not be able to do anything easily and still you will not be able to sleep, but then the reason will be severe mental stress. You will not be able to sleep because you have been well rested, you will not be able to sleep because you are tired of mental stress. If you continue like this, you will not live long. If your body does not get enough rest, it will
7:04 die, it will break down, you will lose something. If you are not happy within yourself, it means that you are moving towards illness. If you are suffering from illness, it means that you are sick at a certain stage, but if you become completely sick, it means that you are dead, so do not move towards that state of illness. Do not stay in a state of illness. Be happy, easy, and effortless. If you have a completely effortless mind, then the sleep time will decrease. The quality of sleep will be better because the quality of life is now good, so you only want to improve the quality of sleep. Life does not work that way if you wake up well in the morning. If you wake up, you will
7:57 sleep well at night too. There are many ways to bring this to people. In the past, especially in India, all these ways were made a part of life. However, nowadays they are being thrown away because everyone has become modern. Modern means always being under pressure, always worrying, always getting angry at everything. Only then are you truly modern. All this was traditionally ingrained. From the time you wake up in the morning to the time you go to bed, what you should do and how you should handle yourself, everything was fixed. Everyone knew all this at the beginning of this generation, but suddenly everyone has become modern by learning English and getting
8:42 used to tension. Otherwise, it would have been called a ritual, what should and should not be done, keeping everything fixed from morning to night. How should all the things in life be done? They had to be done in the right way so that everything could be done effortlessly, as easily as possible, so that those who could not dedicate their lives to yoga and spiritual practices had to ingrain it in their earning culture. It was so that if you know that simple feeling, at least you can wake up happy in the morning and sleep well. Even today in India they say the same thing. If people tell you that this happened in my life, that happened, they will say that it is okay, but in my life, when I lie down, I sleep well.
9:33 Someone may have earned a lot of money, that is okay, but I sleep well. I have heard people say this before. People often say that this is part of people's income talk. It means that I sleep well. I live well. Only if I live well can I sleep well. If I don't live well, I wo n't be able to sleep well. So your effort should not be to improve the quality of sleep, but try to improve the quality of life, then by all means you will sleep well. [Music]
