“All time is wasted that is not spent in seeking God.”

—  Lahiri Mahasaya

This adage is attributed to the ancient sage Sukdeva, as quoted in Promise of Immortality: The True Teaching of the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita (2001) by J. Donald Walters. p. 242
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