Question: How to overcome the habit of sleeping more than required?

Jayapataka Swami: Since this is a more personal question, I don’t know the personal details ,how many hours’ you are sleeping. Generally, if we don’t eat too heavy prasāda at night time, Śrīla Prabhupāda would take some puffed rice, or some light evening meal. He said...

Question: The saṅkīrtana movement in the time of Lord Caitanya was massive. How come did the movement shrink so much after Lord Caitanya left? Till the point that it seems that only very few devotees kept the movement going for a number of generations, can we say the Golden Age has ups and downs?

Jayapataka Swami: You see, the Golden Age is supposed to start 5000 years after the advent of Kali-yuga. Lord Caitanya came 4500 years ago, so the Golden Age starts at 5000 years, that’s just now. That’s when Śrīla Prabhupāda took the movement all over the world. We...

Question: While chanting or reading, or hearing or speaking the pastimes of the Lord, is it ok to think that the Lord is in front of us or Guru Mahārāja, and all Gosvāmīs being in front of us? And will it truly happen to someone in the platform of sādhana-bhakti?

Jayapataka Swami: While chanting, or reading or hearing or speaking the pastimes of the Lord, is it alright to think that the Lord is in front of us? If you have a nice visionary capacity, then by chanting, reading, or hearing the pastimes of the Lord or speaking...