Take a stock of your daily routine. How do you spend your time? And when you observe it, you will definitely find that there is a lot of time that you waste doing absolutely silly, stupid things or at best unproductive things. Just imagine those people who go to their offices, work places by bus or by train. They have plenty of time. They can simply close their eyes and meditate. Even while waiting on a train, one can simply close one’s eyes and relax. But you must have seen people getting so fidgety. They are just looking in the direction of train, as if by being so excited they could actually pull the train to their platform. Those are the moments when one should relax. What do we do instead? We waste that time in creating more trouble inside ourselves. We become so restless. You must have seen people cursing everybody: railway minister, TC, train driver, just everybody because the train is late. And they never realise that by being anxious, by cursing others, they cannot change the time of the train.

Life gives plenty of time for meditation. See when you are boiling milk, you can easily be a witness to this whole process. It is so simple. Just be there. But even with the boiling milk, we are so impatient. We want milk to boil in an instant. The moment we turn on the gas, we want milk to boil the next moment. In how many ways, in how many places, in how many circumstances we perfectly know that there is time and meditation is such a simple thing: we just have to be. You are filling the bucket in your washroom and the tap is slow, you get excited. Somehow you want that bucket to fill in an instant. These are the moments when one can be calm.

Remember, if you have to travel everyday one hour to your workplace, that one hour is going to be there. No matter how much you hurry, how much you get tensed about it, you cannot shorten the distance. You will reach there when you reach there every day. So the moment you start from home, why can’t you make it a point to be just conscious? Be a witness. Be now and here, now and here, wherever you are. And because we go on missing such abundant time, we go on complaining also. As a result, whatever time is available with us even that we lose. So what good is it worrying about reaching a place very quickly? One, you never reach there quickly, you will take time. Two,even if you made it to the place earlier, you would risk your life and the life of others also. Three, even if you reached there early, you would find yourself in another confusion: what to do with the saved time?