Your engagement with business is important; but your appointment to serve others is more important; and your engagement with meditation, God, and truth is most important.Don't say that you are too busy with worry, and the care of keeping the wolf from the door, to find time for the culture of heavenly qualities. Break your self-satisfied, doggedly immovable, old bad habits of idolizing your less important engagements and utterly ignoring the most important engagement: your engagement with meditation and God.
No one else will answer for your actions, although others often become instruments in keeping you enmeshed in useless frivolities and so-called important engagements.
O sleeping image of God, wake up! Make the determination and the effort to know the right law which will enable you to keep your most important engagement with yourself--to know yourself, your own Soul.
Do not say: "I will meditate on the Cosmic Being tomorrow. " That tomorrow may never come. Begin your meditation today. Today's practice will stimulate the desire to meditate deeper tomorrow, whereas this day's negligence will weaken your craving. Meditate today deeper than you did yesterday, and tomorrow meditate deeper than you do today. Meditate during most of your leisure hours. Instead of being absentminded, think of God. Seek God as the ever increasing bliss of meditation; and feel Him as boundless joy throbbing in your heart. Do not be lured by bad habits and paltry, useless vanity-engagements into crowding out God-contact.
Seek to know God first, last, and all the time. Finding Him first, you will find all things that you crave through Him.
