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TEXT 17 yuktahara-viharasya
SYNONYMS  yukta--regulated;
ahara--eating; viharasya--recreation; yukta--regulated;
cestasya--of one who works for maintenance; karmasu--in discharging
duties; yukta--regulated; svapna-avabodhasya--regulated sleep
and wakefulness; yogah--practice of yoga; bhavati--becomes;
duhkha-ha--diminishing pains.
TRANSLATION He who is
temperate in his habits of eating, sleeping, working and recreation can
mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system.
PURPORT Extravagance
in the matter of eating, sleeping, defending and mating--which are demands
of the body--can block advancement in the practice of yoga. As far
as eating is concerned, it can be regulated only when one is practiced
to take and accept prasadam, sanctified food. Lord Krsna is offered,
according to the Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 9.26), vegetables, flowers,
fruits, grains, milk, etc. In this way, a person in Krsna consciousness
becomes automatically trained not to accept food not meant for human consumption,
or which not in the category of goodness. As far as sleeping is concerned,
a Krsna conscious person is always alert in the discharge of his duties
in Krsna consciousness, and therefore any unnecessary time spent sleeping
is considered a great loss. A Krsna conscious person cannot bear to pass
a minute of his life without being engaged in the service of the Lord.
Therefore, his sleeping is kept to a minimum. His ideal in this respect
is Srila Rupa Gosvami, who was always engaged in the service of Krsna and
who could not sleep more than two hours a day, and sometimes not even that.
Thakura Haridasa would not even accept prasadam nor even sleep for
a moment without finishing his daily routine of chanting with his beads
three hundred thousand names. As far as work is concerned, a Krsna conscious
person does not do anything which is not connected with Krsna's interest,
and thus his work is always regulated and is untainted by sense gratification.
Since there is no question of sense gratification, there is no material
leisure for a person in Krsna consciousness. And because he is regulated
in all his work, speech, sleep, wakefulness and all other bodily activities,
there is no material misery for him.
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