Wasting Time - an essential subject

Time is very precious. Thus to waste time is a great loss. Engaging our time in material duties even very perfectly is a waste of time if we do not cultivate our eternal spirit. The best use of our time is not to waste it in material pursuits but to engage our time in understanding that we are not these bodies but eternal spirit souls. A devotee engages all his time to understand and engage in devotional service which is a permanent record.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Wasting Time category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 8 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's books


vanipedia.org 		Those in the mode of goodness can engage in devotional service, and after that they can return home, back to Godhead. That is the real purpose of human life. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to bring intelligent human beings to the platform of devotional service. Instead of wasting time trying to attain a better position in material life, one should simply endeavor to return home, back to Godhead. Then all problems will be solved. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.14.31 )



vanipedia.org 		Unfortunately people do not know that there is life after death; therefore mundane people waste their time amassing material profit which has to be left behind at the time of death. Such profit has no eternal benefit. Similarly, adoration by mundane people is valueless because after death one has to accept another body. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 19.159)



vanipedia.org 		A devotee is always anxious to see that his time is not wasted in anything which is not connected with Kṛṣṇa. Consequently he does not like the benefits derived from fruitive activity, yogic meditation or the cultivation of knowledge. He is simply attached to words favorably related to Kṛṣṇa. Such pure devotees of the Supreme Lord always pray to Him with tears in their eyes, their minds always recollect His activities, and their bodies always offer Him obeisances. Thus they are satisfied. (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 13)



vanipedia.org 		This waste of energy is due to the ignorance of the mass of people, who do not know that they are eternal and that they have an eternal engagement also. They do not know that this span of life in a particular type of body is but a flash in the eternal journey. Not knowing this fact, they take the small flash of life to be everything, and they waste time in improving economic conditions. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.30.2)



vanipedia.org 		One should be very practical in every field of activities and should not waste his valuable time in practicing useless gymnastic feats in the name of yoga. Real yoga is to search out the four-handed Supersoul within one's heart and see Him perpetually in meditation. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.15.45)



vanipedia.org 		We see materialistic persons busily engaged in economic development all day and all night, trying to increase their material opulence, but even if we suppose that they get some benefit from such endeavors, that does not solve the real problem of their lives. Nor do they know what the real problem of life is. This is due to a lack of spiritual education. Especially in the present age, every man is in darkness, in the bodily conception of life, not knowing anything of the spirit soul and its needs. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.4)



vanipedia.org 		One should not indulge in talking unnecessarily about news of the material world. One should not waste time in this way. This is a very important feature in the life of a devotee. A devotee has no other ambition than to serve Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.12.13)



vanipedia.org 		Nature already has an arrangement to feed us. By the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is an arrangement for eatables for every living entity within the 8,400,000 forms of life. Therefore one should not be very much anxious about economic development and unnecessarily waste time and energy with the risk of falling down in the cycle of birth and death. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.14.14)


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