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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
some time at night 12o clock. I don’t know why that unearthly hour has been chosen as the beginning of the day. Because no day starts at that time, so far as we know. Most of us are more sleep at that time than even at 6o clock in the morning. But they have put it that way. But that is not what nature has given us. Nature has given us the day dawns with the sun rising in the east. That is the time when the process of activity starts. Before the process of activity there is a state of certain amount of calmness. This activity goes on increasing till afternoon and by evening it comes to a tapering condition and then again the coolness develops. Early hours of the day it is cool, the heat goes up by mid noon and it is very hot. By evening it comes down, by midnight it is almost totally calm. The Upanishads have said it that every person gets into the company of God by night when he sleeps and comes out of it next morning. This is what Upanishads have said. There is some point in what they say, in the sense that the beginnings of creations were there were as I told you something. There was nothing there and there was a jerk. So the jerk happens to be the early hours of the day. So with this it goes on to the peak of creation and then by evening it tapers down, by night it again
comes to a state of total lull. The original condition, 358