Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada was talking of utilization of time. Never do anything without thinking, Am I eating this for Krsna? Am I speaking for Krsna? This is so precious. On the morning walk, he said the park is built simply to waste time. One devotee pointed out that leisure time is a problem and the government is trying to figure out what people could do. Srila Prabhupada said that our task is to engage the people’s time in Krsna consciousness.
Notes:
Ref BG 6.17 - As far as work is concerned, a Krsna conscious person does not do anything which is not connected with Krsna's interest, and thus his work is always regulated and is untainted by sense gratification. Since there is no question of sense gratification, there is no material leisure for a person in Krsna consciousness.
CC- COncluding words - In his leisure time in later life, His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Thakura would simply readCaitanya-caritāmṛta. It was his favorite book. He used to say that there would be a time when the foreigners would learn the Bengali langage to read Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
So nobody can say that "Without working hard, I shall achieve something." That is not possible. But our tendency is that we do not wish to work; therefore, at the end of the week, we take some, I mean to say, leisure, go out of the city, and try to forget all our hard labor throughout the week. But on Monday, again we have to come back. This is going on.
imad-Bhagavatam 1.2.9 -- New Vrindaban, September 7, 1972
Ref TPM 3 - We request all the ladies and gentlemen who are very kindly attending our lectures or reading our literature to chant Hare Krsna during your leisure hours at home, and to read our books. That is our request. We are sure that you will find this process very pleasing and very effective.
Of course, a Krsna conscious person has noleisure. He's twenty-four hours engaged. So other people, they might have some leisure hours, but here, we are engaged, these devotees, in such a way that they want, instead of twenty-four hours, another three-four hours more. But that is not possible. Kīrtanīya sadā hari.Caitanya Mahāprabhu has recommended that this śravanam kīrtanamis so nice that if you engage yourself twenty-four hours you'll find it nice.Kīrtanīya sadā harih
Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.1.5 -- Los Angeles, August 13, 1972
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