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== निद्राफलम्॥ Effects of sleep ==

== निद्राफलम्॥ Effects of sleep ==

Nidra plays important role in controlling various aspects of life in a human being. Even the sustenance of life or disruption can also be related to sleep.  

Nidra plays important role in controlling various aspects of life in a human being. Even the sustenance of life or disruption can also be related to sleep. <blockquote>निद्रायत्तं सुखं दुःखं पुष्टिः कार्श्यं बलाबलम्| वृषता क्लीबता ज्ञानमज्ञानं जीवितं न च||३६||</blockquote><blockquote>अकालेऽतिप्रसङ्गाच्च न च निद्रा निषेविता| सुखायुषी पराकुर्यात् कालरात्रिरिवापरा||३७|| Cha. Su 21</blockquote>In human beings, happiness and misery, nourishment and emaciation, strength and weakness, fertility and infertility, knowledge and ignorance, and life and death depend upon proper (and improper sleep). Happiness and longevity both can be taken away from an individual if the person takes Untimely, excessive sleep or is sleep deprived. The energy obtained from appropriately taken sleep is thus compared with the real knowledge of yogis which  gives them spiritual powers.  

== देहवृत्तौ निद्रा॥ Role of sleep in survival ==

 

Ayurveda gives equal importance to sleep as food in maintenance and survival of human being. It is said that even life and death of a person depends on the sleep pattern of an individual. Thus, not just food but sleep is also equally important fro nourishment of a human being which makes th eone capable to survive in the external environment and perform activities required to continue his struggle for survival.  

 

 

== देहवृत्तौ निद्रा Role of sleep in survival ==

Ayurveda gives equal importance to sleep as food in maintenance and survival of human being. Like food, Sleep is also nourishing in nature which when not well regulated or disturbed could be the cause of multiple disorders of body as well as mind.

देहवृत्तौ यथाऽऽहारस्तथा स्वप्नः सुखो मतः| Cha su 21/51

देहवृत्तौ यथाऽऽहारस्तथा स्वप्नः सुखो मतः| Cha su 21/51

[[Category:Ayurveda]]

[[Category:Ayurveda]]