Sleeping is very dangerous. This is the test.

[Guest guest]

We shall be always enthusiastic. But we cannot become enthusiastic

artificially. There must be bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. Just like these visitors

in the temple, see how much enthusiastic they are. They are rising early in

the morning, going to take bath in the Yamuna, and they are visiting so many

temples, especially this Damodara temple, because it is Damodara month. And

from five o'clock or before that, three o'clock, they are enthusiastic. They

are not sleeping very nicely. That means lack of bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. It is

maya. So you must be very careful. Test. If we cannot rise early in the

morning, that means we are under the clutches of maya. This is the test.

 

Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore says,

 

jiv jago jiv jago gauracanda bole

kota nidra jao maya-pisacira kole

 

Sleeping is very dangerous. It is to be understood that I am under the

clutches of maya, the more we sleep, because the symptom of tamo-guna is

laziness and sleep. This is the symptom of tamo-guna, laziness and sleeping.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.20 -- Vrndavana, October 31,

1972