Question: Sometimes during Kartik masa the devotees chant 64 rounds, but there are so many other activities which they don’t do as well then just concentration on their sadhana, their 64 rounds, going on extremes. How to balance it?

Jayapataka Swami: I was chanting 32 rounds. Srila Prabhupada asked me, ‘what are you doing?’ ‘I AM CHANTING 32 ROUNDS!’ ‘If you are going to do that, who is going to go out and preach? Chant 16 rounds and go out and preach.’ That is what Srila Prabhupada told me. Now...