Perhaps we think that there is no hurry for us to become pure in devotion. We can wait until some time in the future to become purified. Prahlada Maharaja addressed this point when talking to his classmates. He explained that one’s entire childhood is wasted in frivolous play. Fifty percent of one’s life is automatically lost during sleep. Then so much time is lost in one’s later years because one’s body is old and decrepit and cannot function properly. Putting everything in perspective, Prahlada Maharaja said that if we look at our lives and see how much time we have available to do something meaningful, we’ll see that our lives are very short. It’s better, he said, to engage in Krishna consciousness while we are young and have the energy for it. We should take to this process of hearing and chanting the Lord’s glories as soon as possible.
LFD Vol 2 Pg 34, Paragraph 5