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<div class="heading">So sleeping is waste of time. Therefore spiritual advancement means minimizing sleeping. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau **. About the Gosvāmīs' life it is said they conquered over nidrā-āhāra. If you eat extraordinarily, then you will sleep also extraordinarily. If you eat frugally, as much minimum required, then you can conquer over sleep. Eating, sleeping. Sleeping depends on eating.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles|Garden Conversation -- June 10, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Nalinīkaṇṭha:

:''puṁso varṣa-śataṁ hy āyus''
:''tad-ardhaṁ cājitātmanaḥ''
:''niṣphalaṁ yad asau rātryāṁ''
:''śete 'ndhaṁ prāpitas tamaḥ''
:([[vanisource:SB 7.6.6|SB 7.6.6]])

"Every human being has a maximum duration of life of one hundred years, but for one who cannot control his senses, half of those years are completely lost because at night he sleeps twelve hours, being covered by ignorance. Therefore such a person has a lifetime of only fifty years."

Prabhupāda: So sleeping is waste of time. Therefore spiritual advancement means minimizing sleeping. ''Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau.'' About the Gosvāmīs' life it is said they conquered over ''nidrā-āhāra''. If you eat extraordinarily, then you will sleep also extraordinarily. If you eat frugally, as much minimum required, then you can conquer over sleep. Eating, sleeping. Sleeping depends on eating. ''Atyāhāra. Atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ'' ([[vanisource:NOI 2|NOI 2]]). The people in the material world . . . ''atyāhāra'' means collecting more than necessity. One, somebody has got millions of dollars; still, he is working hard day and night to increase the bank balance. Why? You have got sufficient money; now you engage your life for spiritual advancement and take little food. God has given you enough. Why you are wasting your time in collecting money and eating more? That is misuse. Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmī says, ''atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ. Āhāra'' means eating, and ''āhāram'' means collecting. So these are against ''bhakti'' principles: collecting more than necessity or eating more than necessity. ''Atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ. Prayāsa'', things which are not done very easily, I have to endeavor very, very hard, that kind of work should be avoided. ''Atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpaḥ'', and talking nonsense. No use. You are talking together for hours, what is the use? ''Prajalpa'', it is called ''prajalpa''. And ''niyamāgrahaḥ'', and, without any result, following the regulative principles—or not following the regulative principles. ''Niyama-agrahaḥ. Agrahaḥ'' means not to accept. That is also bad.
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