To get stimulated out of sleep can I visit Facebook first thing after waking up?

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thank you, Hare Krishna you said once in a class that when we to wake up early we can plan something that stimulates us as the first thing in the morning and that way the lethargy can be overcome so since then as soon as I wake up I started looking at my facebook page so you said that is not what you intended, so what exactly does it mean facebook page stimulates me so ok let me explain first what I meant and how we can apply it individually, see when we wake up we are in Tamoguna and the early morning time is a time for Sattva or Shuddha Sattva that means that although we are in Tamoguna if we can get out of bed, we can bathe, freshen ourselves, there is a lot which we can do during that time which will be very good for our introspection for our devotion and the challenge is how to get ourselves from out of the Tamoguna so best would be if we have something which in Sattvaguna stimulates us so for example say if we like to hear some kirtan or recite some verses or love some darshan just keep that next to us and plan that this is what I am going to do as soon as you wake up first look at that or hear that or maybe keep some inspiring quote and as soon as you wake up read that quote have a series of quotes in the quote in the diary or something like that and look at that immediately that will be a Sattvic stimulation to get us out of Tamoguna so that is the best now if we look at facebook quite often or some of us may check our emails, some of us may check our messages or whatever so now that is also a stimulation hey this happened here, this happened here, this happened here but quite often that stimulation is Rajasic, at one level Rajoguna is above Sattvaguna at the very least ok this message has come from here, this happened over here, it will stimulate us and at least we will get out of our sleep so in that sense it may also be good but the problem is right in the early morning itself we get a dose of Rajoguna then Rajoguna may consume us and coming to Sattvaguna may be difficult, so it may happen that ok I look at this and I look at that and I look at that and then even if I somehow get up and start chanting I am thinking ok what was over there, what I said over there, what I said so in general the morning the major advantage of the morning time is all the activities of the day are not rushing through our mind and we can focus more on transcendence at that time but if we have stimulated ourselves right in the morning by checking messages then to some extent we have given our mind Rajasic stimulation right in the morning and then whether we will be able to absorb ourselves in the Sattvic stimulation of the holy name, Sattvic stimulation of Shastra study that we will have to check, so I wouldn’t say that it is not possible at all it is possible that sometimes we get some Rajasic stimulation and we keep it regulated and after that so ok 5 minutes I will check it, whatever and 5 minutes I will check my Facebook and then as soon as I will get up and I will move on and do other things and if we can avoid thinking too much about whatever we read on Facebook or messages during our morning sadhana that is good, so rather than making it a mandatory principle that it should not be done, I would say that ideal, preferable is that we find a Sattvic stimulation maybe have some quotes might be very helpful because quotes can intellectually stimulate also, it is a nice sentence we have read or heard somewhere, keep a series of that, it could be just about waking up in the morning or it could be just about general philosophy also, just something stimulates oh this is nice, let me think about it that will be the best and if you are using a Rajasic stimulation, you have to be very careful that we don’t go into Rajoguna because of that and then you can check by whether taking Rajasic stimulation, it can get us out of Rajoguna but then afterwards we are able to get ourselves into Sattvic if otherwise, it is changed to Rajoguna then Sattvic activity will feel like a burden, when will this get over, I want to get on and do more things, it shouldn’t be like that we should be able to put our heart in Sattvic activity so it is best if from Tamoguna we can directly get a Sattvic stimulation but if we are going to use a Rajasic stimulation then we have to make sure that we don’t stay stuck in Rajoguna but we rise to Sattoguna