So, sleep rejuvenates, replenishes, refreshes Satva and Divinity refreshes it.
Going to temples and worshipping God is refilling your Satva, but in spite of that you are still losing it.
You are gaining ten percent and losing eighty percent.
A day will come when you will run out of Satva because as we grow older the body tends to sleep less and less.
In fact new born babies up to one year sleep sixteen hours a day.
From eight to sixteen years we sleep twelve to fourteen hours a day, and after twenty we sleep ten hours a day.
Once we cross twenty five we sleep eight hours a day and after forty we need only six hours of sleep.
After this as our age advances, depending on the condition of our health, we sleep accordingly.
So, the less we sleep, the lesser will be the replenishing of our Satva.
Then how do we compensate for this? We have to sit and meditate.
We have to sit and pray and we have to avoid unnecessary social contact.
If there is a problem created by certain situations or by people we should try to avoid such situations or people as much as we can in the future.
How do we avoid them? We avoid them very politely.
We avoid such people very calmly.
We should not avoid them with hatred.
We should not avoid them with intense dislike because hatred again creates Karma and Karma gives you so many problems for the rest of your life.
Or it gives you such terrible problems that in your next life you will all be finished even before you are born! That is why we repeatedly tell you - “Always be in Satva.”
Satva is the essential core in all of you.
God has given you this priceless treasure; God has given you this wonderful gift - Satva.
You are born with it.
Don’t lose it at any cost.
You are entitled to use it, but not to lose it.
When you are filled with Satva, you benefit not just yourself, but the whole of society.
Every person in society cannot benefit all the time by your wealth, by your money, by your power or by your position.
However, society can be benefited all the time, for the rest of your life, by your Satva.
Remember what Satva gives - it brings God in front of you.
Satva gives you the kind of peace which you have never experienced in your life before.
Your first name should be Satva, your middle name should be Satva and your last name should be Satva because when Satva is projected outside everything becomes Satvic.
It becomes purity. It becomes nectar. Bring out the Satva in yourself today.
Forget all the troubles, the worries, and the problems that society has brought you, that your own relatives and friends have brought you.
This article is taken from the book “Develop Your Inner Personality” by His Holiness Shri Shri Nimishananda Guruji