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The Significance of sleeping at night

The Significance  of sleeping at night

The eighth session of 58th round of the Academy Branch Workshops was held on March, eighth 2017 at 11:30 a.m., this meeting was held by Mr. Dezhakam as the master and Mr. Mahdi as the secretary and the weekly agenda was “The Significance  of sleeping at night”.

Hello friends, I am Hossein, a traveler. Today is March the eighth and the agenda is "night sleep and its significance". Being a human is a surprise itself. Consider our simple 'walking'  which is very important. Sometimes, we take a 100-pound weight. Sometimes, we are talking while walking and eating (something). Therefore, we see a surprurise in each part of our body. Our body parts are extremely  amazing. Human beings are great just like the earth but this is very ordinary to us. Sleep is an amazing issue. Some people believe in whatever they can see. And some people are doubtful about whether we exist after death or not. Some ask what remains after our death. This is a surprising question. Sleep is a temporary death. We die as we sleep and we revive as we wake up. Their difference is that when we die, our "self" does not return to our body; however, in sleeping, our "self" leaves the body forever.

Some may claim that sleep is a brain response and all we see as sleep is our imaginations or memories. However, this is not the case. If in our sleep, someone asks which life is real to you? You will answer: "this life" (the life in sleep). Whatever we see in sleep is real in that moment. When we get up, we change our mind and say this is reality. While sleeping, we may fight with someone and our head is injured and bleeds, because we have a body in sleep which is different from this physical body. But see which one is the real one, the one you had in sleep or this physical body. When you are asleep, that body and events are the real ones; however, as you are here, the physical and worldly events are real. According to Rumi, we have five internal and five external senses and we have seven bodies, one of which is what we are at sleep. If one asks whether we revive after death, the clear answer is sleeping in which we die once and again we revive.

 

Therefore, a clear reason why we believe in after-death-existence is sleep. Whatever happens in sleep is completely real and in that time if someone asks you what the reality is, you will say this is real. As you are asleep, you believe that everything is real there. While sleeping, we enter another world and this is a very complex and complicated attribute of human beings. The existence keeps its information and it is definitely thrifty. We think the universe is very generous; however, it is very frugal. It keeps all its information and thoughts in it. It values all the creatures. It never allows death. It never allows self-destruction. We have body-destruction but we have not self-destruction. You can kill your body but you can never kill your Self. Self is what determines existence both externally and internally. The real self is Self, not the body. We sleep and then we revive again. Death is similar to sleep. Therefore, death is a bridge. That is why a human being is responsible for whatever they do. This is not a legend. Whatever we do will refer to us. If the rate of rotation around the sun changes a bit, everything will be disturbed in the world. Everything is carefully planned and disciplined in this world. Do not think that you can easily betray people and break your promises, do not think that you can win with betrayal and treason. In the worldview, we understand that we must do some things. You see in the holly book that you have to have witnesses when you lend money or anything. You have to write a transaction when you sell or buy something even to/from your father or mother.

You now know that sleep is a temporary death and we should consider this truth. We must consider death as a sign for the fact that life develops after death. We should know that we exist after death and this body is just like a dress which we will wear for a while and then put it off  when we die and put on another body.

Sleep is a reason to know whether we are alive after death or not. This lets us live differently. If we think that death is not an end to life, everything will change. When you travel to another city, you take some luggage. However, if you know that your trip is a short one, you will not take any food or water.

 

The second important issue is sleep which is like cell phone. Our body must be charged during night so that it can work during daytime. Some people are like some cellphone owners, whose phones are never charged. Whenever they are talking to anyone, they say: "sorry, it is getting discharged". The same happens to those who suffer from lack of sleep at night. If we have not eight hours of sleep at night, our body does not work properly. The 24 of day must be divided into three parts: eight hours for working, eight hours for other daily chores and eight hours for sleeping. Sleeping for five hours is not appropriate. When you sleep, you should become unconscious. For sleep to happen, some chemicals must be secreted in the blood. This process happens around 9:30 to 10 p.m. and we fall asleep. Now if I am awake at this time watching a movie, I no longer can sleep, because endrophin, acetylcholine and adernalin are secreted at 10 p.m. and when I do not sleep, they lose their effect and the cycle of sleep will be disturbed. I sleep at 9:30 even if I have guests at home.

Translated by Elahe

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