If you plead that you have no time to spare for Japam and dhyanam, I will say that it is but laziness that makes you argue so. How can any lower task claim the time that is legitimately the right of the one task for which man is born? Rise everyday as if you are rising from death. Say, ‘Thus am I born. Make me speak soft, sweet words, behave coolly and comfortingly towards all, do deeds that shower happiness on all, form ideas which are beneficial to all.’ (SSS Vol.5, p. 313)