Acharya Prashant explains that while birth and death occur by chance, liberation does not just happen; it requires conscious effort and the payment of a price. He interprets the words of Laleshwari to mean that a lifetime is like a day that is slowly slipping away, and one must not find themselves at the end of life still burdened by the weight of conditioning and baggage. The only proper function of time is to lead a human being into the timeless. If a person's life or even a single day is spent only in relation to material things like the body, trees, or mountains without a touch of the beyond, then that time has been squandered. He emphasizes that to cross the ocean of existence, one must earn the 'ferry fee' through spiritual work. Reflecting on the setting sun, he asks whether one's day contained any element that time cannot destroy or any flavor of the truth that transcends everyday thought.
