Question: You mentioned day before yesterday that by chanting all our sins and prarabda are also eradicated. Besides these I also felt that the false ego is subdued during chanting. But after that it returns to its original strength. My question is, is it possible to give up our false ego permanently by chanting alone? Or do we need to do something additionally?

Jayapataka Swami: Usually after chanting, gradually the false ego should be purified. Haridas Thakur he was chanting 300,000 names a day, so he could control his false ego very quickly! We only chant 25,000 names a day! So it may take a little time. We chant in one...