So what do I mean by all these experiments?🔗

All I mean is, cook your food, eat your food in a meditative mood. Let meditation become a part of your lifestyle – not something you sit and do for half an hour every day. When you go back home, teach these meditation techniques to the person who cooks for your family. When the person who cooks and the persons who eat are in a blissful, meditative mood, the very quality of the food changes.

Swamiji, what about the right hours for sleeping?

Like I said yesterday, though you sleep throughout the night, you actually sleep only for two hours every night. Only those two hours you need to sleep. The rest of the time you are simply falling in and out of the dream state.

Can those two hours be during the day also?

Yes, for a few people it may be during the day. Nothing can be done about it.

But doesn't our body need six to eight hours' rest?

No! When the mind relaxes, the body also automatically relaxes. The same two hours will be more than sufficient for the body as well.

What about when we overwork?

The body is designed to work 22 hours a day, ma! Tiredness, hunger – all these are psychological concepts. We are used to a certain cycle of eating and sleeping. It is only when you look at the clock that you feel hungry or sleepy. Three full meals and eight hours of sleep are too much for us!