"CHANTING OF SIXTEEN ROUNDS"
PRABHUPADA: You are all chanting sixteen rounds? No? (laughs)
Śarādīyā: I did at first but then I slipped back.
PRABHUPADA: Is it very difficult?
Mālatī: No, we do not know how yet to regulate our time too well. Some days we chant sixteen rounds and then the next day, I don't know what happens. I think we sleep too much, I mean I think I sleep too much.
PRABHUPADA: How many hours you are sleeping?
Mālatī: About six to eight.
PRABHUPADA: That is not much.
Sixteen... It takes only two hours, sixteen rounds. Huh?
Two hours, or more than that?
Mālatī: Two hours is all it takes to do the rounds.
PRABHUPADA: So you have to spend two hours for Kṛṣṇa out of twenty-four. Yes?
Devotee (1): Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
PRABHUPADA: No, you can sleep till you are refreshed. Somebody's refreshed by sleeping four hours. Somebody is refreshed by sleeping ten hours.
Mālatī: But we should not sleep when we have, in place of our devotional service.
PRABHUPADA: No, of course not. Devotional service is first.
Mālatī: So if we miss some sleep we should do it.
PRABHUPADA: We should forego sleeping even. The real regulated life is that if sixteen rounds is not completed, then we have to forego sleeping. You should take out hours from sleeping. The main thing is that we should always be careful that my time may not be wasted, the time we engage for our bodily necessities, that is wasted. Only the period which we have engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is utilized. So we should be very much careful whether time is being wasted or being utilized.
Morning walk
-San Francisco –
March 23rd 1968
PRABHUPADA: You are all chanting sixteen rounds? No? (laughs)
Śarādīyā: I did at first but then I slipped back.
PRABHUPADA: Is it very difficult?
Mālatī: No, we do not know how yet to regulate our time too well. Some days we chant sixteen rounds and then the next day, I don't know what happens. I think we sleep too much, I mean I think I sleep too much.
PRABHUPADA: How many hours you are sleeping?
Mālatī: About six to eight.
PRABHUPADA: That is not much.
Sixteen... It takes only two hours, sixteen rounds. Huh?
Two hours, or more than that?
Mālatī: Two hours is all it takes to do the rounds.
PRABHUPADA: So you have to spend two hours for Kṛṣṇa out of twenty-four. Yes?
Devotee (1): Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
PRABHUPADA: No, you can sleep till you are refreshed. Somebody's refreshed by sleeping four hours. Somebody is refreshed by sleeping ten hours.
Mālatī: But we should not sleep when we have, in place of our devotional service.
PRABHUPADA: No, of course not. Devotional service is first.
Mālatī: So if we miss some sleep we should do it.
PRABHUPADA: We should forego sleeping even. The real regulated life is that if sixteen rounds is not completed, then we have to forego sleeping. You should take out hours from sleeping. The main thing is that we should always be careful that my time may not be wasted, the time we engage for our bodily necessities, that is wasted. Only the period which we have engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is utilized. So we should be very much careful whether time is being wasted or being utilized.
Morning walk
-San Francisco –
March 23rd 1968
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