I can understand that sometimes it is hard to set aside the right time for meditation, and I think you are doing exactly the right thing: which is finding some time during the day to either read the Gita, or listen to a stotram, or to read the autobiographies of the gurus and saints. They all accomplish the same thing- which is to remind us of the Divine around us and in us. If this can be done as often as possible, even once a day to begin with, then it is very uplifting. That is the first step towards the final goal of constant remembrance.
The daily grind in the mundane (and this word with its Latin root mundo- the world, captures the point so well) leaves us spiritually exhausted. Even conversations with friends and others often revolve around something or the other that is not altogether uplifting. In time the invigorating tonic of hearing about the Divine becomes intoxicating, and it is accessed in different ways. One of the benefits of satsang is the opportunity to discuss something uplifting, where otherwise it would be difficult to talk about anything other than the mundane.
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