We often claim we do not have the time to indulge in Sadhana. What is the solution for that? Bhagawan firmly corrects this misconception and inspires us.
As a first step towards the acquisition of viveka (wisdom) and vairagya (detachment), enter from now on into a discipline of Namasmarana – the incessant remembrance of God through the Name of the Lord.
A fashionable excuse that is trotted out by those who do not like this discipline is ‘want of time!’ It does not need any special time or extra allotment of time; it can be done always, in the waking stage, whether you are bathing or eating, walking or sitting.
All the hours now spent in gossip, in watching sports or films, or in hollow conversation can best be used for silent contemplation of the Name and Form, and splendour of the Lord. Now, you complain of want of appetite for God. You have lost appetite because you have eaten unwholesome food, not because you have had an excess of good food.
You have no knowledge of which food is wholesome, what are its components, etc. You believe that the unwholesome food you get, through the impure gateways of the senses, will keep you healthy! Learn this lesson from here and return, better equipped, to your places.
– Divine Discourse, Jan 30, 1965.
