How to Offer time in sacrifice to the divine?

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Time Is the Fire You Must Offer

Time is finite. Every moment spent is a silent offering—either to Māyā or to the Divine. Scrolling endlessly, bingeing distractions, we unknowingly pour the sacred oil of our time into fires that yield no light.

True sādhana begins when we sacrifice the trivial for the eternal. Drop Netflix. Offer those hours at the feet of Śrī Nāma. In doing so, you are not losing leisure—you are redeeming your soul.

The Bhagavad Gītā (4.23) says:

gatasañgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-cetasaḥ
yajñāyācarataḥ karma samagraṁ praviliyate ||
"When a person performs action as a sacrifice, free from attachment and ego, all their karma dissolves."

Sacrifice isn’t pain—it’s power. It is the doorway to transcendence, already within you, waiting to be remembered. Time offered to God doesn’t pass—it purifies. This is the sacred economy of sādhana.

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