Text 17)
Տնդերի կարողանություն
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who indulge in animal food, drinking, smoking and eating food which is not first offered to Krṣṇa will suffer sinful reactions because of eating only polluted things.  Bhuñjate te tv aghaṁ papa ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt.  Anyone who eats for sense pleasure, or cooks for himself, not offering his food to Krṣṇa, eats only sin. One who eats sin and eats more than is allotted to him cannot execute perfect  yoga . It is best that one eat only the remnants of foodstuff offered to Krṣṇa. A person in Krṣṇa consciousness does not eat anything which is not first offered to Krṣṇa. Therefore, only the Krṣṇa conscious person can attain perfection in  yoga  practice. Nor can one who artificially abstains from eating, manufacturing his own personal process of fasting, practice  yoga . The Krṣṇa conscious person observes fasting as it is recommended in the scriptures. He does not fast or eat more than is required, and he is thus competent to perform  yoga  practice. One who eats more than required will dream very much while sleeping, and he must consequently sleep more than is required. One should not sleep more than six hours daily. One who sleeps more than six hours out of twenty-four is certainly influenced by the mode of ignorance. A person in the mode of ignorance is lazy and prone to sleep a great deal. Such a person cannot perform  yoga .
TEXT 17
युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु । युक्तस्वमावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा ॥१७॥
yuktāhāra-vihārasya  
 yukta-ceṣṭasya karmasu  
 yukta-svapnāvabodhasya  
 yogo bhavati duḥkha-hā
yukta —regulated;  āhāra —eating;  vihārasya —recreation;  yukta —regulated;  ceṣṭasya —of one who works for maintenance;  karmasu —in discharging duties;  yukta —regulated;  svapna-avabodhasya —regulated sleep and wake-fulness;  yogaḥ —practice of  yoga ;  bhavati —becomes;  duḥkha-hā —diminishing pains.
TRANSLATION
He who is temperate in his habits of eating, sleeping, working and recreation can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system.