Guru Maharaj: This is a relative question. Because I don’t know what the service is. If there is some emergency service, something that has to be done, then you have to do it. And so being a grihasta not possible every morning to do all our rounds. If your child is...
Guru Maharaj: Since an initiated devotee has taken a vow to chant minimum 16 rounds a day and to follow the four regulative principles, so if they don’t chant 16 rounds, they are doing the third offence by disobeying the order of the spiritual master. And if they...
Guru Maharaj: Srila Prabhupada would offer some service which a person could do. Like someone who is used to working in an office, you don’t say you have to work in a field. You give a service suited to that person. What aspects of Krsna consciousness, you have to see...
Guru Maharaj: I was chanting 32 rounds a day. I felt very proud. I was thinking I was doing sadhana. Srila Prabhupada asked me what I am doing? I said, I am chanting 32 rounds! I thought Srila Prabhupada would be very happy! He said, if you stay all day and chant, who...