tatra sarvArtha shAntyartham smareccha madhusUdanaM – Ashtanga Hridayam
This line translates as: “One should wake up in the brahma muhurta for sustaining perfect health and for achieving a long life span, as desired.”
In any Ayurvedic textbook, the very first verse begins by explaining the daily morning routine to be followed for health and long life – especially emphasising the importance of Brahma Muhurta.
Brahma Muhurta is a period of two muhurtas (two time units of forty-eight minutes), about one and a half hours before dawn. In the Vedic tradition, this period is considered as the ideal time for spiritual practices like prayer and meditation.
Usually between the hours of 4.30am – 6am, this is a time period in which you are neither fully awake nor fully sleeping, nor fully dreaming.
Since you are half awake and half asleep at that time, the biomemory and muscle memory is more receptive to change a cognition, remove self doubt, self hatred, self denial (SDHD) and create the reality you want to hold a space for. The logic is not thick enough, and you can easily manifest your desires into reality.
The Brahma Muhurta consciousness is a unique time and space where the material out of which you are made of is available for alteration, transformation and manipulation – it is as though it is liquid. Hence, anything you try to infuse into your inner space goes in very easily; just like a needle moves into the banana. It can easily enter into your system. For example, when you feel you do not have enough wealth, you can try to play and infuse yourself with the idea, “Let me manifest wealth” during Brahma Muhurta.
“Early morning, the period of Brahma Muhurta, where the so-called reality, waking state has not become 100% real for you and the dream state has yet not become 100% dream state for you, where you are just moving in-between. Brahma Muhurta – morning 4.30am to 6am, where your inner space, some moments is in waking state, some moments in the dream state; make use of that time to infuse some ideas into your system.” – SPH Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam
The SPH Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam has designed the morning routine – which includes waking up in the Brahma Muhurta, doing Yoga, pancha kriya, puja, kirtan and sitting in Satsang. The morning routine is designed to give the Chit Gaṇa Anubava, Embodied State of Consciousness.
As The SPH says, “A person who is in love will wait to spend time with the beloved. If you are a Seeker you will be waiting for this five hours every day, because that is the time you get near what you are seeking, closely, your seeking takes shape into the system. When your beloved comes near you, if you are tired the love is gone, dead. During the morning 4 hours if you are bored, your seeking is dead, gone, you need thorough overhauling inside you, you need to ask yourself. You need to question many of your answers. You need to bring pure questioning back to your life.”