How to Spend Time

The most difficult thing in life is to spend time since 'time' is a dubious concept? Time is fleeting! There is nothing like the present, past or future since the present only becomes past in a sec. and enters into future! Even the the statement like the "past is dead and future is unborn" is meaningless since past always lives as experience, knowledge, and memory. So also, what is future is already there in your presence and present in a matter of a sec.! It is the Saint Shankaracharya who took this Upanishad statement and presented us the concept of 'maya'. This 'maya' when reversed becomes yama, the 'time'! Time is illusion, a myth and we all live in Time, maya, and an illusory, fleeting phenomenal world of men, subjects and objects.

   Now how to spend the available illusory 'time'? When there nothing like 'time', the question of spending time does not arise, at all! But the rising Sun and the Sunset marks the beginning and end of day leaving us in darkness of 'time'. The question of spending this time of day and night is not general, but specific; it is age-specific, gender-specific, and mind-specific! There are some who are so busy that they do not have time even to breathe, let alone eat and sleep! Some have all the time in the world for gossip, TV and wander! There are people who are lucky to have what they want and still get bored of life and there are many who do not have even bare necessities of life and do not know what time is! Time fleets even before they realize that they lived (once up on a time?). Now what is this we are talking about? Time is an illusion and it is created by Light that travels and creates space! Sine both Time and  Space are illusory, we who are living through in this mythic situation are also living in an illusory fleeting phenomenal objective world?

   Hence, the supreme Lord, Bhagavan Shree Krishna advises us to live consciously! The means to happy life is 'living consciously aware' of every sec. of our life, acquire the true knowledge of Time, Space, illusory or fleeting transitory world and always think of the Creator and BE ONE WITH HIM!   Surrender to Him, He will take care of you. Do whatever that comes your way, as ordained by the Lord; do not show personal or selfish interest. never indulge in anything that just satisfies the senses and the fickle mind and intellect since these are limited by time, space, and causality. Happiness and joyfulness are the inherent qualities of the 'soul', the 'Atman'. It is covered by ego, attachment, anger and other 'ari-shadvarga/ and need to be washed clean and discarded! 

   So it is advised hereto always chant the name of the Lord and be happy. The two significant  syllables 'Ra' and 'Ma" can take us to the ultimate state of 'Bliss', parama ananda!