DAILY READINGS
From Mother Radha's recordings of Swamiji
656
The early morning is a period where creative vibrations are in operation. But if a man does not catch hold of this creative vibration then the whole day he feels as if he is pushing a car up a hill. He will be struggling and his mind will not be right. He may grow apparently healthy in body, but he will be very poor in mind.
In the scriptures Manu says that if a man gets up after Brahma muhurta (especially that is after six o'clock) then he has committed the [metaphoric] sin of killing Brahmins. This late rising destroys our spiritual life.
Those people who are very fond of getting up after six in the morning: look out, because God can question you; and He may say you have committed brahmahathya [the sin of killing a Brahmin]. Lord Brahma got up to do his work; he gave you the creative feeling, he gave you creative power, but you have lost it.
It is like when ration-giving time comes, hundreds of people are passing through the gate but one man is sitting down saying, 'When everyone is finished then I'll go and get mine.'
Brahma muhurta is a very important time in the life of a sadhaka - whether he is a householder or a brahmachari.
Those people who get up after six will be born as rakshasas [demons] in the next birth. If you want to be born as a rakshasa, who can stop you? God is a very loving God, He is very merciful, He gives you that which you love best - and only rakshasas can enjoy sleeping well.
So Brahma muhurta mangal arati is a very important thing. I know that ashramites [residents of the monastery] sometimes do not take advantage of mangal arati. They think, 'Oh, the other people are small people, they must do it.' It is not like that. The great Rishis [Sage-Seers-Saints] formulated this sadhana, they formulated it for themselves so that they would always be able to keep their minds high and on high ideals.
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Sri
Ramakrishna, Sri
Sarada Devi, Swami
Vivekananda, Swami Nischalananda Puri, Swami Shivapadananda
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