Regarding association, Śrīla Prabhupāda, before he was initiated, was pursuing getting initiated from his spiritual master, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, and he was very busy. When his guru Mahārāja had a yātrā for 10 days, he only got to go for one day. And he went there and took such advantage of the opportunity that he had in that one day that his guru remembered him when he went to Allahabad. He said, "Oh, I know him. He's the one who sits up front and listens, and he won't go away," as he took such advantage of it.

So I recommend taking time with a legal pad and a pen, and just take time for yourself to prioritize your life. Write down all the things that are important to you for a while, think about it, and then consider it over some time, and reorganize the list. When you put that together for your spiritual practices and everything you have to do, then you'll have a clearer idea that when the opportunities come, these are what's most important to me.

But we'll always have more opportunities than we'll have time for anyway, and that's not bad.

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