Don't waste time, or time will waste you!

A short utterance of Pujya Maharaj Ji — watch the video above for the full discourse.

Full Discourse

Don't be dishonest. Don't waste the time that is yours. If you don't waste it, time will lift you up. Look, their good time has come. They say, don't they, "What a bad time this is, friend." At every step there are calamities. If you waste your time, a bad time comes, and there is nothing greater than time as wealth. Understand this. One who makes his time meaningful can become everything. Whatever he wishes, he can become. Learn to make your time meaningful. Think: someone earned all his wealth through hard work over 50 years, yet he cannot add even one breath, meaning with 50 years' earnings he cannot add a single breath. And how many breaths did he spend in 50 years, and what did he gather that could not buy even one breath? Think how precious your breath is. Your time cannot be extended by even one minute. When your life's time ends, everything stops right there. No doctor can add even one second, right at that moment. Think about such precious time: where do we spend it? On entertainment, on nonsense, on useless quarrels, on useless sights, on useless activities, on dirty thoughts. So if we feel that if we want to do bhajan honestly, even while doing everything, we have time for bhajan.

This text is taken from the video's auto-generated subtitles — it may contain word errors. For authentic utterances, be sure to listen to the video.

Original video: Bhajan Marg (YouTube)