Question: There are ups and downs in our consciousness. Times come when we are very attentive in our service and sadhana and time comes when we get involved in offences in office and other things and not focused in sadhana and somehow completing our daily chanting but not in full consciousness. So how to be in full consciousness, attentive about our sadhana and service without getting much distraction?

Jayapataka Swami:  This is also an anarta – called thick and thin. Sometimes a person is very, very fixed up, very thick in bhakti. Sometimes they are very thin. So that is why it is recommended that we try to do our chanting early in the morning because the grihastas...