chanting of 16 rounds

[Guest guest]

If I cannot finish my sixteen rounds due to some business, then next day I

must finish it. If you say that “Next day also, I am busy,” then you should

forego your eating and sleeping and finish it. That is the way. You are so

busy, but you do not forget your eating and sleeping. That is cheating. If

you are so busy that you forget your eating and sleeping, then I can

consider that you are very busy. But you do not forget this portion.

“Whenever there is opportunity, I sleep and eat. And I have no time for

chanting”—this is cheating. How long you can go on by cheating? You must

finish it. Hare K™¢a.

Somebody, after initiation he promises, “Yes, I shall follow these rules

and regulations. I shall chant sixteen rounds,” before the fire, before the

Deity, before the guru, and if he does not follow, then he is a cheater.

What to speak of his becoming a Vai¢ava, he is a cheater. He breaks all his

promises. Therefore after seeing, observing a person is doing every thing,

then say second initiation, or then he should not be recommended for second

initiation unless the president and the other authorities see that he is

doing nicely, he is following. Otherwise he should not be recommended. If he

is recommended, that is also another cheating. If you know that this person

is not following the rules and regulation, then why should you recommend

him? Then it is another cheating. Vaiddhi-bhakti [“devotional service

following the prescribed rules and regulations”] must be followed; otherwise

it becomes sahajiy€. [“…A class of so-called devotees {who} follow their own

concocted ideas and, representing themselves as K™¢a and R€dh€, indulge in

debauchery.”]

Morning walk, Hyderabad 20 April 1974