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A BIRD S EYE VIEW OF THE LORD S LIFE
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ness During his spiritual pursuit he had very little sleep During twelve and a half year he
slept for less than a muhurta * (16) When sleep would be too irresistible, he would
wander a little to corquer it and thus ceaselessly stay awake?
It seems unusual to do with a more few minutes' sleep in twelve and a half year However, it is not impossible for a Yogi A yogi who shake's off the slumber of his consciousness, activates his subtle body and does with no sleep or very little of it Physiological changes may also sometimes bring about such a development Armond Jacquis Leurwait was born in 1971 in France While two year old a heavy object fell over his head, causing a grave injury He was taken to a hospital where he was unconscious for a number of days Nursing revived his consciousness The Injury effected some inner bodily changes that made him an absolute insomniac Tranquillizers were administered with no result
Sleep is natural to life but an arousal of the quintessential consciousness and physiological changes attending thereon may render all sleep unnecessary as the reported cases testify to
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Food (17) The Lord was conversant with the precise quantity
of food and water required for human body and consumed these accordingly 2
• 48 minutes 1 Ibid 9/2/5 2 Ibid 9/2/20
