Dear Gurudev, isn’t it an addiction to do sadhana every morning instead of making breakfast for my husband, or meeting friends, or watching TV and playing with my grandson?
You doing mediation is in no way contradicting you making breakfast for your husband or for yourself. It’s not an alternative for breakfast. Meditation is not a choice for breakfast. This is like asking, should I use the toilet or should I brush my teeth? You need both.
If you don’t want to do something you will find one hundred excuses not to do it. But when you want to do something, you can do it in spite of your busy schedule. Everyone has only twenty four hours in a day, and in that you should take a little time for yourself. Sit on your bed and meditate before your husband wakes up. No one can disturb you at that time.
Don’t think you are obliging me or someone else by meditating. You are not meditating for me, nor is it an obligation towards anybody. Meditation does so much good to your nervous system and brain, so you should do it.
You don’t need to be so fanatic and say, "I am not going to answer the phone or attend to the knock on the door because I am meditating". Get up and attend to that. If the children are crying first attend to that. Attend to any emergency and then sit and meditate.