# Not Wasting Time *On utilizing every moment in Kṛṣṇa consciousness* --- ### Avyartha-kālatvam > So we should be very much careful in discharging the duty. The devotee should be so much careful that he'll always see, "Whether this moment is spoiled or utilized?" *Avyartha-kālatvam*. *Avyartha-kālatvam,* that "My time may not be wasted." He should be so careful, "Whether my time is being wasted?" And time wasted, the time we engage for our bodily necessities, that is wasted. Generally, conditioned souls, they are simply wasting their time. Only the period which we are engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is utilized. So we should be very much careful whether time is being wasted or being utilized. — [[spoken/1968/680323mw.sf|Morning Walk at Stowe Lake, San Francisco, March 23, 1968]] --- ### Determination and Celibacy > [break] .determination. And this determination is increased by celibacy. *Brahmacārya* is recommended to keep oneself determined. A *brahmacārī,* if he determines something, he executes. He has got that strength of mind. Those who are too much addicted to sex life, they cannot be determined. They cannot be fixed-up. They are flexible, changing. People are, in modern day, they cannot sit down in a place for a long time. Therefore so much traveling. The traveling business is very prosperous. Everyone wants to travel. They cannot fix, fix up. — [[spoken/1968/680323mw.sf|Morning Walk at Stowe Lake, San Francisco, March 23, 1968]] --- ### Suffering in All Planets > This suffering, the four kinds of sufferings, are everywhere. Not only India and America, they are in this planet, but even if you go to the moon planet or if you go to the sun planet, *ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ,* even the highest planet. The modern scientist says that if we want to go to the highest planet it will take forty thousands of years. No. Four hundred thousands of years. Something like that they say. By sputnik. So anywhere you go. Lord Kṛṣṇa says, *ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino 'rjuna*: — [[spoken/1967/670327sb.sf|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.14–16, San Francisco, March 27, 1967]] --- ### Mahat-sevā > So *śuśrūṣoḥ śraddadhānasya vāsudeva-kathā-ruciḥ syān mahat-sevayā*. Mahat-sevā* means if you, by chance, you get in contact of a great personality, great soul who knows Kṛṣṇa science, you just try to please him. Therefore we, every day in the morning, we sing *yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ.* — [[spoken/1967/670327sb.sf|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.14–16, San Francisco, March 27, 1967]] --- ### The Human Body Is Rare > So we can analyze, in this human form of life, that that body which I have accepted, that is *asat,* temporary. As Prahlāda Mahārāja says, *asat-grahām,* we have accepted the *asat,* and we have forgotten that which is *sat,* or eternal. Therefore it is said, *durlabha mānuṣa janama sat-saṅge:* now, in this *mānuṣa-janama,* which is so difficult to obtain, we should take the opportunity and associate with that which is eternal. — [[spoken/1977/770324sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.20, Bombay, March 24, 1977]] --- *5 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on not wasting time*