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Time will not wait for you

A spiritual discourse on the preciousness of time and vigilant spiritual practice.

"Time is most precious, and it flows like a river. The clock of our life is constantly moving."

"Your heart was empty. And these troubles were waiting and waiting for the opportunity, the chance to enter in; then it's very hard to get rid of them."

The speaker emphasizes the immense value of time, warning that wasting it on gossip or negativity is a great sin, unlike animals who simply pass time. Using a blend of English and Czech, he stresses that the wise constantly remember God. He illustrates this with an anecdote where Guruji explains that problems enter like asuras when a devotee's heart becomes empty in a moment of lapsed attention, even amidst regular practice.

Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Seminar

Time is most precious, and it flows like a river. The clock we speak of never stops; it is constantly moving. So too, the clock of our life is constantly moving. Time is precious; time is very, very valuable. And time will not wait for you. Therefore, Gurujī said in one of his bhajans that this life is like a diamond; do not waste the time to realize that 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 will be counted for you as a human—the time in which you meditate and repeat the name of Gurudev, your mantra. Otherwise, gossiping, blackmailing, backbiting, criticizing—everyone is doing that. Even the animals are also passing the time. If humans are only doing this, then humans are committing a great sin. It is a great sin. Samay kā apamān. Samay kā apamān. You are not respecting the time. Because you do not respect it, you are emulating the time. You do not respect time, and that is a sin. A to je hřích. Therefore, the wise man, proto moudrý člověk, constantly remembers the Lord, neustále myslí na Boha, and constantly feels the presence in the heart. Once, a devotee asked a question to Gurujī: "Gurujī, I am meditating so much, I am repeating my mantra so many times, and I read holy books. How is it possible that problems come to me? How do problems come to me?" Gurujī said, "You know, the problem is waiting, looking for a chance. And that minute when your attention, your feeling, your love goes to some other things, then your heart is empty. And when your heart is empty, it means in this minute you don't remember God, you don't repeat your mantra, you don't 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, then within a certain time you must put the statue of God, the altar of God. If you don't do it, then asuras will enter in. Therefore, your heart was empty. And these troubles were waiting and waiting for the opportunity, the chance to enter in; then it's very hard to get rid of them." Recording location: Czech Republic, Strilky, Seminar

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt, what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

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