We have seen that previous generations and empires have disappeared due to time, but we think that we are not under its influence. (One thing we can learn from history is that we do not learn from history.)

All beings in this material world are subject to birth and death and go through 6 phases of life: birth, cultivation, growth, production of by-products, dwindling and finally death.

In time things get better or worse. In most cases, things get worse. Things are not what they used to be.

Used to be that you could trust your fellow man, now I don't think that anybody can.

Used to be that money was made of gold, now it's just some dirty paper you can fold.

Used to be that killing was a crime, now they do it legal all the time.

Seems to be knowledge in the school, but it's the blind leading the blind as a rule.

We rarely think of time as our friend. Rather, the word time evokes memory of the Bhagavad-gita verse (11.32): «Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds, and I have come here to destroy all people.»

Time is Krsna`s impersonal feature in this world (Kala Rupa). It is the pushing action of time that allows us to see our duration of life diminish and which gives impetus to increase our devotion to God.

We may have very little devotion, but the time factor provides the fire that fuels our desire to surrender. Especially when we watch ourselves moving helplessly towards death. Perhaps we see our relatives or fellow devotees pass away first. Time and death humbles us. It allows us to see the true nature of this material world and to aspire for the eternal.

We have little time in which to perfect ourselves. But as the saying goes - "Time and tide waits for no man".

Chanaka the poet said - "You cannot buy back time with any amount of gold coins".

George Harrison sang - "Nothing in this life that I have been trying could equal or surpass the art of dying".

Time also does appear to exist in the spiritual realm: Krsna rises in the morning, milks the cows, then eats breakfast, goes to the forest with His friends, and in the evening returns to Vrndavan village. However, it must be understood that time there it is not the same as it is here. All these pastimes exist simultaneously; each moment is eternally present.