Why wake up early??

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t has been written in ancient Hindu scriptures, when you wake up in Prata: Kaal (the time of the morning when still there are stars in the sky until the time sun rises), your Devpitra (demigods or demigoddesses, and your ancestors) will be happy with you and bless you with health, wealth and prosperity. That might be pointing at the benefits of waking up early. When you wake up early, you would have clean air and that help to make you healthy and of course, it makes you content and that is how you can have impressions of godliness in your Atma (soul).

It has been described in Shastra –

j0f{ sLlt{ d"lt{ nIdL :jf:Yodfo'Zr lj+blt

a|fDx] d'x't]{ ;+hfu|l5ojf k+sh+ oyf

Meaning when you wake up in  Brahmi Muhurta (Prat: Kaala), you will have better health, beauty, wisdom, longer life time and as a whole, it gives you lots of benefits for your prosperity. The wind you get in Brahmi Muhurta is very beneficial for you and that is the reason behind everyone in spiritual path wakes up in Brahmi Muhurta to do his worshiping or sadhana or yoga, unless it has been recommended to do in the night or other times of a day.

Even the Western scholars have agreed on this saying “Early to bed and early to rise that makes a man healthy wealthy and wise”

Usually, the oxygen level in the air early in the morning around like Brahmi Muhurta is very high, i.e. more than 20%, and start depleting because of the man-made pollutants and different other factors. It will be around 5% in the evening and night and that is one of the reasons behind why we become dull in the evening and night. (Source:Yoga Book)

Yaagyawalkya has said,

c?0f ls/0fo'Qmf+ k|frL+ lbzdnf]So :gflblt

Meaning the time called filled with Arun Kiran, is the time before sun rises; the exact time when it is with light yellow colour. And Yaagyawalkya elaborated the reason behind taking bath in that time.

u'0f bz :gfgk/:o ;fwf] ?k+ t]h+ r jn+ r zf}rd\

cfo'io df/f]Uo d nf]n'kTo+ b'::jkKggf;Zr oz:q d]wf

Meaning if we take bath in that time, it will help to boost up our beauty, strength, life time, prosperity, power and health ten times.

In a nutshell, we have to wake early in the morning and take bath to become the healthier ones and to achieve everything that anyone could ever want out of her/his life. But it does not mean you started waking up early in the morning and you would get everything, it is rather that habit makes you capable. And the ancient Shastra has fixed the time of Brahma Muhurta between 3:00am to 6:00am.

P. B. Gurudev Mahamaya Ma Yogshyama ki jaya!

(Source: www.siddhashram-australia.org)