too busy to chant japa

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Pancadravida: ...such devotees that they do service, they may be very big,

they attract so many people, they are successful, kirtana and everything,

but we know they are not chanting japa. What can we do in that situation?

Are we...

 

Prabhupada: Situation, he is doing some service. He is doing some service.

 

Pancadravida: Yes.

 

Prabhupada: So because on account of that service, if he could not, that can

be excused. But not that practice should be taken as permanent business. The

regulation is that if you cannot finish your chanting that day, then next

day you should forget sleeping and eating and must finish it.

 

Pancadravida: Some persons we encounter they don't even chant at all, and

yet we are in association with them, and they are...

 

Prabhupada: No, if you miss on account of busy-ness, then next day you must

finish it. You should not go to sleep. You should not... Yes, that day you

should forget all other business. First of all compensate this.

 

Satsvarupa: Some devotees have it as a chronic condition, though.

 

Prabhupada: Then he is animal.

 

Satsvarupa: But still, he's doing lots of good devotional service.

 

Pancadravida: He may even be manager.

 

Prabhupada: Then they will get some chance later on. What is that devotee,

if you do not follow the regulative principles? The business is that if one

day you cannot, but finish. The next day you must finish. Now, for eating,

he is very eager, and for sleeping, he is very eager, and for finishing

chanting, he has no eagerness. Then he is animal. It is simply an excuse.

Yesterday you had no time? You were very busy? All right. Today you forget

your sleeping and eating. Finish it. That is wanted. [break] And only for

chanting, you have no time. This is not allowed. This is not allowed. This

is cheating, that "I am so busy."

 

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- April 20, 1974, Hyderabad