“There are two processes, one is called the Pancaratrika-vidhi and the other is called Bhagavata-vidhi.

Bhagavata-vidhi means daily chanting of the holy name of the Lord and hearing the Bhagavatam.

Pancaratrika-vidhi means mangal-aratis, pujas, things like that – doing all the worship, formal worship.

So one has to do one or the other or both.

It’s recommended that both is best. To do basic Pancaratrika and basic Bhagavata-vidhi.

But if you don’t do either, then where is the spiritual life, you see?

It has to have at least one or the other, if not both.”

His Holiness Jayapataka Swami
28th October 1982
Thailand