Guru Mukha Padma Vakya: VAIRAGYA VIDYA

Unless there is vairägya, there is no question of happiness. But we cannot attain vairägya immediately; therefore the vidhi-märga, vidhi-märga-bhakti, to rise early in the morning, to attend mangala ärati, to offer Deity flowers, fruits, and in this way we shall be engaged twenty-four hours. Then vairägya-vidyä will gradually develop. Anarthopasamam säksäd bhakti-yogam adhoksaje.

So our request is that you have taken to this vairägya-vidyä. So vairägya-vidyä, we do not say that you starve, don't eat anything, don't sleep at all. No. IT SHOULD BE REGULATED. Anäsaktasya visayän yathärtham upayunjataù. Don't be attached to eating, sleeping. That is not good. But you must eat, you must sleep as little as possible, and try to conquer over it. My mind dictating, "Sleep seventeen hours." No. That is tapasya. Tapasä brahmacaryena. Why shall you sleep more than four hours or five hours or utmost six hours? That's all, not more than that. That is vairägya-vidyä.
- (Lecture: Vrindavan November 18, 1976)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai..\o/

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