We often happen to hear this, I have no time, I am a
student, I work for a multi-national company, I have to look after my family
etc. I am already doing so much in my life; I don’t have time for this entire
spiritual quest.
We must establish our priorities in life. There is plenty of
time if we understand the need. There is a famous English saying “If you want
to get something done, you ask a busy man, you don’t ask a man who is not doing
anything.” Because if you ask a busy man to get something done, he will make
time to do it, but if you ask a man who is not doing anything, to get something
done, he won’t have time. It is based on our desire. If we understand the need
of the urgency for self realization in our life then we will make time no
matter what emergency we have. If we
happen to make that time, there is a guarantee that we will do better in
whatever we do, because the quality with what we do will be much higher. The purpose of self realization is to purify
our mind. Now don’t you think that we will do much better if we have a purified
mind, if we are free from lust, anger, envy, greed, pride and illusion? Don’t
we think our mind will be able to do it in 1 hour when it ordinarily used take
several hours? OF COURSE! When we speak of time, are we going to live for
quality or quantity? In regard to our studies, work etc, what do we want,
quantity or quality?
We must establish our priorities in life. There is plenty of
time if we understand the need. There is a famous English saying “If you want
to get something done, you ask a busy man, you don’t ask a man who is not doing
anything.” Because if you ask a busy man to get something done, he will make
time to do it, but if you ask a man who is not doing anything, to get something
done, he won’t have time. It is based on our desire. If we understand the need
of the urgency for self realization in our life then we will make time no
matter what emergency we have. If we
happen to make that time, there is a guarantee that we will do better in
whatever we do, because the quality with what we do will be much higher. The purpose of self realization is to purify
our mind. Now don’t you think that we will do much better if we have a purified
mind, if we are free from lust, anger, envy, greed, pride and illusion? Don’t
we think our mind will be able to do it in 1 hour when it ordinarily used take
several hours? OF COURSE! When we speak of time, are we going to live for
quality or quantity? In regard to our studies, work etc, what do we want,
quantity or quality?
The deeper we go into our consciousness through the science
of self realization, whatever we do will be of higher quality in every level. A
common question – How will we have time for self realization that we have
already so much to do? This is called Penny wise and Pounds foolish. To save
few pennies we are losing many pounds. If we understand the necessity of God
Realization in our life, then without a doubt we will make time and we won’t be
a looser, we will gain in all levels.
We are all students/job holders working so hard. Don’t we have time to eat and sleep? No matter what
we are doing, we have time to eat and sleep because we know the necessity of
eating and sleeping. If we understand that for the purification of our heart
and for progressing towards the real goal of life, meditation, chanting the
name of the Lord and accepting some discipline is a necessity, then we will
realize this is more important than eating or sleeping. We will make time no
matter what, but first our intelligence must be convinced of its importance.
There is time.”Where there is a will, there is a way”. The most important thing
in our life is to cultivate this ‘will’ and we will definitely find the way.
