Prioritizing God: The True 'Important Work'

So, if Krishna lives in your living room, how much time should you spend in your living room? It'll be foolish to not just always live there. So, if He lives in your heart, then should we live... at what times is it to leave the living room? If Krishna is there, must be some when you have to do some really important work, obviously.

They’ve been calling you, but we don't live like that with everything else. We don't wait to be called. So, fully, full-hearted offering ourselves completely and full Grace; both are true. So, if Krishna lives in your living room, how much time should you spend in your living room? It'll be foolish to not just always live there. So, if He lives in your heart, then should we live? At what times is it to leave the living room if Krishna is there? Must be some when you have to do some really important work, obviously. Hey, you can't spend your whole life just living with Krishna; you have to do some important work. Yes, and as absurd as it may sound as I'm saying this, this is exactly what we do in our lives. 'I don't have time to pray' or 'I don't have time to inquire.' That only means that I don't value it that much. That's why Ananta said, 'Okay, you do all your important work, but while you do all your important work, just keep remembering His name.' And of course, he was being sarcastic about the important work because there is nothing more important than being with God. So, remember Him all the time. Remember His name. Take His name all the time.

Then you say, 'Okay, I can't do that because then I'm in that important work, as meetings, and then I have to be involved in those meetings.' Okay, every 15 minutes just set a timer on your phone and remember Him once. 'I can't do that because there's too much going on in my life right now.' Okay, then every one hour you can do? 'No, can't do that.' Then it's no longer a question of lack of time; it is a question of priority. One useful experiment is to replace God for a minute with a worldly relationship. So, just replace God with a worldly relationship, with a best friend or a partner, and just see how you treat him. So, to be present to God's presence is what we need. In every relationship, isn't it? To be present to the presence of one that we are in a relationship with is what every relationship asks for. So, why not our relationship with God in that way?