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बोध का मार्ग, और नींद की बाधा || आचार्य प्रशांत (2018)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Conditioning
Sleep
Values
Truth
Guru
Soul
Self-awareness
Spiritual Discourse
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that sleep is a habit and a conditioned pattern. He notes that sleep follows a set routine, such as requiring darkness or staying away during sensory stimulation like bright lights or loud music. He points out that the session was not stimulating but rather soothing like an ointment, and the listener's internal system has not yet learned to remain awake in moments of non-stimulation. This is because the internal mechanism has been trained to value only those things that involve excitement, pleasure, or the fever of gain and experience. He further elaborates that sleep is like a trained animal that follows instructions on when to be active and when to rest. One does not fall asleep while dancing, eating, or facing a life-threatening situation like a lion because the mind has been conditioned to view these as important or stimulating. However, the listener has not yet educated their sleep to stay away in the presence of the Guru or the Truth. He emphasizes that sleep is a slave to one's conditioning and values. Finally, Acharya Prashant states that the tendency to fall asleep during spiritual discourse reveals what one truly values. Currently, the body is considered more valuable than the soul, which is why one fears a lion but sleeps before a Guru. He suggests that once a person realizes that there is something more precious than the body, they will not only stop sleeping in the presence of Truth but will not even blink. The solution lies in re-evaluating what is truly valuable and shifting the priority from the physical to the spiritual.