People would rather do anything to while away their time except meditate. Witness the hours lost in movies, card- playing, aimless chattering, reading cheap novels or sensational newspapers, watching television.
When the Guru and self- control of the aspiring devotee ask him to destroy his mental weeds and to plant the spiritual seeds of meditation, his habits suddenly make him see his life as a desolate desert if it lacks the customary weedy abundance of useless activities.
Spiritually weak devotees often do not preserve long enough to know the positive fruits of renunciation, and so give up meditation after a few trials or even after a few years of half- hearted effort. Plunking again into the eddies of ordinary habits of living, they finally drown in ignorance.
The sincere devotee is not misled when the crafty sense attached mind says to him: ” why give up the pressures indulged in by most people ? Why sit in the dark in fruitless meditation? Go out everyday to the movies or social gatherings, and have a good time.
— GTWA, ch1. Pg. 146
