Making Best Use of Our Limited Time

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When we reflect on the time we
have in our lifetime and how we

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utilize it, we find that.
After we calculate time spent in

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sleeping, eating bathing growth
in childhood earning a living

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exercising.
We have a very limited amount of

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what may be called free time
available to us.

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In a culture and society that
wants to keep us occupied at all

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times.
This free time is generally

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allocated to various forms of
recreation or dissipation of our

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focus and energies.
Any moment when we do not have a

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specific task or activity is
considered empty and we deal

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with the feeling of boredom.
Our society provides us Endless

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Options for filling this time.
Some spent in building up our

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skills and experience for
success in the outer world of

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action.
And other time in socializing or

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even actions of outright
dissipation such as use of drugs

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or alcohol or use simply as a
distraction in various forms of

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mindless entertainment, in which
we habitually engaged. the

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mother suggest that this very
limited free time is actually of

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extraordinary value and can be
focused and applied towards

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spiritual growth, inner
development, and understanding

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of the meaning of our lives and
actions, The mother notes quote,

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how often there is a kind of
emptiness in the course of life

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and unoccupied moment, a few
minutes sometimes more and what

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do you do immediately?
You try to distract yourself and

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you invent some foolishness or
other to pass your time.

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That is a common fact.
All men from the youngest to the

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oldest spend most of their time
in trying not to be bored.

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Their petrol version is boredom.
And the way to escape from

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boredom is to act foolishly.
Well, there is a better way than

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that.
To remember when you have a

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little time, whether it is 1
hour or a few minutes, tell

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yourself at last, I have some
time to concentrate to collect

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myself. to relive the purpose of
my life, to offer myself to the

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true and the eternal If you took
care to do this, each time you

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are not harassed by outer
circumstances.

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You would find out that you were
advancing very quickly on the

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path.
Instead of wasting your time.

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In chattering, in doing useless,
things reading things that lower

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the Consciousness to choose only
the best cases.

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I am not speaking of other
imbecilities which are much more

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serious.
Instead of trying to make

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yourself giddy to make time that
is already so short still

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shorter only to realize at the
end of your life that you have

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lost three quarters of your
chance.

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Then you want to put in double
time but that does not work.

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It is better to be moderate
balanced patient quiet but never

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to lose an opportunity that is
given to you.

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That is to say to utilize for
the true purpose.

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The unoccupied moment before you
When you have nothing to do, you

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become Restless, you run about
you meet friends, you take a

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walk to speak, only of the best.
I am not referring to things

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that are obviously not to be
done.

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Instead of that, sit down
quietly before the sky.

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Before the see were under trees,
whatever is possible.

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Here you have all of them and
try to realize one of these

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things to understand why you
live to learn how you must live

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to ponder over, what you want to
do, and what should be done,

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what is the best way of escaping
from the ignorance and falsehood

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and pain in which you live?
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo in the mother living
within the yoga approach to

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psychological health and growth
exercises for growth and

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Mastery.
Self recollection.

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Remembering Pages 157 to 158