| "Cāṇakya Paṇḍita says that 'Time is so valuable that if you pay millions of golden coins, you cannot get back even a moment'. What is lost is lost for good. Na cen nirarthakaṁ nītiḥ: 'If you such valuable time spoil for nothing, without any profit', ca na hānis tato 'dhikā, 'just imagine how much you are losing, how greatly you are loser'. The thing which you cannot get back by paying millions of dollars, if that is lost for nothing, how much you are losing, just imagine. So the same thing: Prahlāda Mahārāja says that dharmān bhāgavatan, to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, or God conscious, is so important that we should not lose even a moment's time. Immediately we shall begin. Why? Durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma. Mānuṣaṁ janma (SB 7.6.1). He says that this human form of body is very rare. It is obtained after many, many births. So modern civilization, they do not understand what is the value of this human form of life."
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