What Is Brahma Muhurta?

Swamyea Saranam......

What Is Brahma Muhurta ? Is Getting Up In The Brahma Muhurta As Prescribed By The Sages Beneficial For Students ?

The Brahma Muhurta period occurs 48 minutes (one nadi) before the Sunrise. The grown-ups when demand of their children to wake up in the Brahma Muhurta period to study their lessons, the children scarcely listen.

But, the fact is that, if you get up in the early morning and study your lessons, you will never forget it. All that you study in the early hours remain in your memory. An agency that conducted a study on the learning defects in the children has approved of the practice of studying in the early hours of the day.


Brahma Muhurta starts 48 minutes (one nadi) before the Sunrise. The auspicious time is named after Lord Brahma whose wife Goddess Saraswati, the deity of Learning and Arts, too is believed to start working at this time. Hence this time is called Saraswati Yama as well.
What Is Brahma Muhurta ?

A particular gland on the right side of the head when remains alert, promotes learning capacity in children. If they sit before a lighted oil lamp, for some time to begin the day, it too sharpens their memory owing to the positive energy that the rays of the oil lamps spread all around.

It is for these reasons that the ancestors advised the children to get up in the early morning and start studying before a lighted oil lamp.