Every moment unused for Krishna consciousness represents irreplaceable life eternally wasted, making time more precious than gold.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.6 — January 3, 1974, Los Angeles 740103SB-LOS ANGELES [40:26 Minutes] SB-01.16.06_740103SB-LOS ANGELES Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] athavāsya padāmbhojamakaranda-lihāṁ satām kim anyair asad-ālāpair āyuṣo yad asad-vyayaḥ [SB 1.16.6] Prabhupāda: Who is that?
Somebody is speaking behind? [break] [03:34] Pradyumna: Translation: "The devotees of the Lord are accustomed to licking up the honey available from the lotus feet of the Lord. What is the use of topics which simply waste one's valuable life?" Prabhupāda: The same last paragraph. The...
Yadi kṛṣṇa-kathāśrayam [SB 1.16.5]. So the proposal was that "We are interested to hear about Kali's being punished by Mahārāja Parīkṣit if there is some connection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness." That is the principle of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that we shall not do anything which has no connection with Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One should be very alert: "I am going to do this.
Whether it has got any connection with Kṛṣṇa? I am going to eat this. Whether there is any connection with Kṛṣṇa?" In this way, we have got always some activities, some action of the senses, but if we test every moment, "Whether this has got any connection with Kṛṣṇa?" then you will remain safe. I am going to talk with you or somebody else.
Whether that talk has got any connection with Kṛṣṇa? If it has no, then I am not going to talk. Nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.255]. That is really renunciation. Renunciation does not mean I change this cloth to another shape of cloth and another color of cloth.
Renunciation means I will not associate with anything which has no connection with Kṛṣṇa. This is renunciation. Because for a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, to waste even a moment of life without Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a great dangerous action. Not only...
Anyone who is interested for higher level of position, he should be very careful of using every moment of life. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita's advice, moral instruction of Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, he says, practical proposition, āyuṣaḥ kṣaṇa eko 'pi na labhyaḥ svarṇa-koṭibhiḥ sa cen nirarthakaṁ nītaḥ kā nu hānis tato 'dhikaḥ He is advising that our duration of life, that is limited. It is, by destiny, limited. Therefore in the horoscope it is said that "So many years this man will live." That's fact. So any big scientist, big philosopher, they may be very, very big, big men, but the so-called scientist cannot increase even one day's life.