When a yogi sleeps, everybody is awake. And when everyone is sleeping, a yogi is awake. This is what Lord Krishna says in the Bhagwad Gita.
You have already heard this? What does it mean? It simply means, when everyone is excited and worried, the yogi sleeps comfortably. The yogi knows that everything will happen for the best, and all happenings will be for the general good. A yogi has this confidence.
You have already heard this? What does it mean? It simply means, when everyone is excited and worried, the yogi sleeps comfortably. The yogi knows that everything will happen for the best, and all happenings will be for the general good. A yogi has this confidence.
And when everyone else is sleeping, then yogi is awake, meaning that the yogi is aware of the Truth about life when everyone is asleep, sleeping about the truth of life. Nobody wonders, ‘What is going to be my end? Where will I go? What is life? Who am I?’ When none of these questions arise in people’s mind, they are asleep.
People are lost in watching movies and playing video games. There are people who begin playing video games even at a very old age. Man isn't seeing that death is coming near. He does not think, ‘How I have filled my mind with so much craving and aversion. And I have done is nothing to wash and cleanse my mind’. If you don’t cleanse the mind of impressions, then you have to carry the same mind and same impressions with you after death.
So when you die, your mind should be happy and joyful! One who is 'sleeping', he is taking all garbage into his mind. The yogi is alert and awake. He does not take any garbage from anybody into his mind - Why did this man say this to me? That lady said that to me.
Your mind is completely destroyed by thinking about others’ imperfections. Leave others’ imperfections to others. Let them handle that. You handle your mind, you handle your imperfections, that is good enough.
Do you have patience to accept others’ mistakes? You have to accept others’ mistakes? Correct them as much as you can. If you are compassionate, only then you should correct. Otherwise leave it to nature; they will find their own way. But if you are compassionate, correct it with compassion, and then, it doesn’t get into your head, your mind.
Do you have patience to accept others’ mistakes? You have to accept others’ mistakes? Correct them as much as you can. If you are compassionate, only then you should correct. Otherwise leave it to nature; they will find their own way. But if you are compassionate, correct it with compassion, and then, it doesn’t get into your head, your mind.
When do you get angry or upset when you see someone else’s action as imperfect? Can you correct somebody’s action like this? His action is imperfect but now by thinking about it, your mind has become imperfect. At least save your mind. Others have gone on the wrong path, why should you let your mind also dwell on the wrong! Right?
That is why He says, the yogi is awake when others are sleeping. When you are sleeping, you let others’ garbage enter your mind. But yogis don’t let this happen. They keep their mind fresh.
That is why He says, the yogi is awake when others are sleeping. When you are sleeping, you let others’ garbage enter your mind. But yogis don’t let this happen. They keep their mind fresh.
