Wisdom of today by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Discipline in Yoga is wiser than dependence on drugs). You can do it, delay sense gratification. Step by step.

From the Library of Gargamuni das (initiated 1966)...

Question: I don't understand very well when sense gratification is helpful and when it is not?...

Prabhupada: Sense gratification is never helpful. That is described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that kamasya nendriya-pritir [SB 1.2.10]. Sense gratification is required as far as little as possible. Otherwise, not for sense gratification. Just like sleeping. Sleeping is required because this material body requires some rest. But not that we shall sleep twenty-four hours or twenty hours and enjoy, as in this country sometimes they enjoy sleeping.

But sleeping is wasting time. So long we shall sleep we cannot do anything good work. Therefore it should be minimized. You cannot avoid sleeping altogether. That is not possible. But it should be accepted to the minimum extent. That is called tapasya, or advancement of spiritual life.

Eating, sleeping, sex and defense. Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithuna. They're required. So long we have got this body, we require to eat something, we require to sleep sometimes, we require a little sense gratification, and we require defense. But it should be minimized, not increased. That is tapasya.

In the human life this is possible, this is possible. Nidrahara-viharakadi-vijitau. One can conquer over these things, by practice. The more we minimize this ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithuna, this means we are advanced in spiritual taste. It is practiced.

My, my personal life, I don't sleep at night. And nowadays, at most, one hour. Yes. But I take rest in the daytime, at least two to three hours. So it is not that I am sleeping one hour. I sleep three to four hours total.

But if practiced, it can be reduced, practiced. We see in the life of Gosvamis. About them, it is said: They conquered over sleeping, eating. If we conquer over eating, then we can conquer over sleeping and other things also. If we can control over this tongue, then we can control over the other senses very easily. That is a fact. Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung, Of all our senses the tongue is very, very prominent. So the first thing in spiritual advancement, the first thing is to control the tongue.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Conversation with Dr. Shaligram Shukla--Part 1 -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.