Value of Time = Pujya Gurudev

Recognize the Value of Time

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

“Samana urve adhi sangatasah sam janate na yatante mithaste / Tedavanam na minanti vratanyamardhanto vasubhiryadamanah ’’// - Rigveda 7/76/5

They gather at the one place and take decisions with one mind. They do not act against one another. Not shirking their duties, and living in majesty, they do not break the decrees of gods. We should know the value of time and honour its sanctity. All the secrets of life are encapsulated in this. Every instant, every moment is invaluable in itself, because it brings with it unique opportunities for us. One moment missed is one opportunity gone. Whatever that opportunity could have given us, we are now completely deprived of that. Every moment is thus priceless, because it has no equal, no substitute. 

What it is to bestow on us can never be given to us again by any other moment. To grasp the unmatched importance of time we should always bear in mind that it was a moment that gave us life. From that instant of birth till today, we have drifted in the stream of time formed by ceaseless drops of moments. It is another matter that in this drift we practically remained unconscious and kept losing many things, missing the unending gifts of time. If we go into its reasons, the lion's share of responsibility may be laid upon our insentience-driven lethargy. The other reason is our disorderly life-style and its concomitant bad habits. Caught in this whirl, we have become a perpetual loser of opportunities in life. In our dim and dumb stage of mind we are not even cognizant of this loss, and if, on being reminded by somebody, we do take notice, it is of no purpose because by that time it has become too late. 

The great poet-saint Tulsidas very aptly says: "Samaya chuki puni ka pachhitane, ka varsha jab krishi sukhane." 

Meaning :  There is no point in repenting after the time has passed. Of what use is rain when the crop has died? More or less the same is the plight of our lives. Still we fail to imbibe this truth and do, or rather do not, as is our wont. Latent urges of the unconscious, habits and samskars have such a spell over our consciousness that we just do not have the sense to do the right thing at the right time, and opportunities keep skipping by us.

Thanks GOD,Thanks Sadgruru,

Shiv Sharma