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64 rounds in 5 hours
64 rounds in 5 hours
Dear devotees
Please accept my humble obaisences

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The Hare Krishna Explosion, p. 63, by Hayagriva dasa, Palace Press 1985:

"Now that you have beads," Swamiji says the next morning, "you should chant sixty-four rounds every day."
"Sixty-four rounds?" To pronounce every word of the mantra distinctly, we require five minutes to chant a round. Sixty-four rounds would
take over five hours. "Impossible!" we say. "We'll never have the time."

"All right," Swamiji says. "Thirty-two rounds."
"Impossible," we say. "We'll never be able to do it. It's way too much."
"All right," Swamiji says. "Sixteen rounds. No less.

I am more and more convinced Srila Prabhupada was chanting 64 rounds daily, because first of all this was the standard
of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupadas initiation, and when Prabhupada gave his first initiation he asked the
devotees to chant 64 rounds.He said it can be done in 5 hours it is there in his conversations, and he told Tamal Krsna
Maharaja he used to chant 64 rounds daily, it is in TKG's diary.How many rounds Srila Prabhupada chanted while preaching in
the west would be a speculation, how will we know?Because Srila Prabhupada may have stated he did not chant 16 rounds not to obset
the envious neophytes?
For sure a vaisnava is not supposed to ever reduce his numbers of chanting
so to me it makes no sense Srila Prabhupada ever reduced this amount to barely 16, and where is the recording of such?
Besides this reference from TKG? And 16 rounds is not the standard of Lord Caitanya.
I realized now chanting 64 rounds for quit a while that it can be done in 5 hours as Prabhupada said ,provided you
put your mind fully on the Holy names. While chanting the Mahamantra ,that should be no inattention.Chanting every syllable
of the holy names of the Mahamantra which is full of rasika mellows if chanted without offence this was realized by our
acaryas such as Srila Rupa Goswami and Srila Jiva Goswami .
Once one sannyasi asked me how I chanted the Gayatri mantra so fast, I went over and showed him, how I moved my fingers
while chanting the mantra in the mind.He followed the chanting in his own mind and realized I was not being inattentive.
One of the biggest offences to the holy name is inattention from that all other offences may occur, so leave the mind on
the shelf as my old sankirtana leader used to say, and simply surrender.If we become fixed up there is no fear also going
on the street meeting people and distributing Srila Prabhupadas books, but because many are mental cases they never will and never have
at least for long time(many years).Srila Prabhupada pleaded with devotees to distribute his books see SB 7.9.44 purport also,he writes
it is the duty of every member in ISKCON.Even if someone is busy with a job or taking care of a family still one can always
remember Krsna and preach, and even if one gives free books and encouraged people to read them that is great.Nowadays there
is Prabhupadas books online such as vedabase.net.Srila Prabhupada also suggested to daily hear his lectures and read
his books for at least an hour or 2.So why will we not chant 64 rounds ,read his books for 1-2 hours
and listen to his lectures?And distribute them.Or go on Harinama also and do both.
Those who worship Srila Prabhupada, read his books and distribute them and chant 64 rounds daily with attention
those devotees are my life and soul.As Prabhupada said becoming KC is not a question of just offering some flowers.
By the grace of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu the whole world can be God conscious and very happy
your servant
Payonidhi das

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