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Making Best Use of Our Limited Time · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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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