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Time will not wait for you

Time is the most precious diamond of life, constantly flowing and never returning. Do not waste it in gossip or idleness, as even animals pass time thus; for humans, this is a great sin of disrespect. Your heart is a temple that must be filled with meditation and mantra to keep God's presence within. If your attention wavers and your heart empties, problems and negative forces waiting for that chance will enter. Then it becomes very difficult to remove them. Therefore, the wise constantly remember the Lord, using this precious time for spiritual practice.

"Lucky are they who can be in satsaṅg. Lucky are they who can practice every day."

"That minute when your attention, your feeling, your love goes to some other thing, then your heart is empty."

Filming location: Strilky, Czech Republic

Time is most precious, and it flows like a river. What we call the clock never stops; it is constantly moving. So too, the clock of our life is constantly moving. Time is precious, very, very valuable, and it will not wait for you. Therefore, Gurujī said in one of his bhajans that this life is like a diamond. Do not waste time realizing it is a diamond. Otherwise, this time will not be given to you again and again. Lucky are they who can be in satsaṅg. Lucky are they who can practice every day. That time in which you meditate and repeat the name of Gurudev, your mantra, will be counted for you as a human. Otherwise, gossiping, blackmailing, backbiting, criticizing—everyone is doing that. Even animals are passing the time. If humans are only doing this, then humans are committing a great sin. Saméjka ātmān. You are not respecting the time. Protože nerespektujete. You are emulating the time. Nerespektujete čas, and that is a sin. Therefore, the wise one constantly remembers the Lord. Once a devotee asked Gurujī a question: "Gurujī, I meditate so much, I repeat my mantra so many times, and I read holy books. How is it possible that problems still come to me? How do problems come to me?" Gurujī said, "You know, the problem is waiting, looking for a chance. That minute when your attention, your feeling, your love goes to some other thing, then your heart is empty. And when your heart is empty, it means in this minute you do not remember God, you do not repeat your mantra, you do not have devotion to your Gurudev. Then, into that empty heart, asuras run in. Devils run in. There is a temple, and when you build a temple, you must, within a certain time, put the statue of God, the altar of God, inside. If you do not do it, then the Asuras will enter. Therefore, your heart was empty. And these troubles were waiting and waiting for the opportunity, the chance to enter. Then it is very hard to get rid of them."

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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