Srila Prabhupada explains that, sleep is only to recover from the fatigue due to working hard. The devotees are meant to work very hard. Devotees must never be lazy. All the great acharyas condemn laziness. When we are lazy, we are just opening the doors for Maya to rush into our mind and take complete control. Therefore we must be very active, we must be very busy in hearing the glories of the Lord, in chanting the glories of the Lord and in rendering service by executing the instructions of the higher authorities. In this way, if we are working very hard, that we sleep simply to recover from the fatigue and we get up and we work hard. This is the process of Krsna consciousness. This is the process by which we can be immuned from the influences, which are constantly trying to drag us towards sense gratification.
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