how we should sleep (right side and left side)

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> (I request Krsna-krpa Prabhu to post this on the brahmacari conference)

>

> > I have one more question. If I remember correctly, in

> > the edition of Brahmacarya in Krsna Conciousness (BKC)

> > that I had (from the 1990s) you state that the best

> > way to sleep for brahamacaris is on the left side.

> >

> > A devotee told me that in the 2003 version of the book

> > you update this advice, and state that sleeping

> > on the right side is best. Is there is inded such an

> > update in the 2003 version?

>

> I changed this as an ayurvedic authority insisted that the previous info I

> had got from another ayurvedic authority was incorrect. It seems that

> ayurvedic doctors, like other doctors, and also lawyers and politicians

> (councillers also?) all give different advice.

 

Srila Prabhupada noted this in CC:

 

Typically, lawyers and physicians differ, giving one kind of instruction and

then another.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Madhya 25.196

 

 

 

This comes in the section of CC where different brahmanas gave different

advice to Subbudhi Ray who was sprinkled upon some water from a pitcher of a

Muslim.

 

 

 

 

>

> If possible, someone could send this query ("which is the best side to

> sleep on?") to various ayurvedic doctors (there are several on the

> internet) and send us the responses.

>

> Unless a clear consensus emerges, in the next edition of BIKC I'll just

> write "sleep on the side" without specifying which one. At least that the

> side is better than the back seems to be agreed upon by ayurvedic

> authorities. All proscribe sleeping on the stomach.