SRILA PRABHUPADA ON 64 ROUNDS - SOME MORE QUOTES

[Guest guest]

YOU CAN INCREASE

 

Morning Walk, December 11, 1975, Vrndavana.

 

Aksayananda Swami: Yes. I was told in the beginning you asked the first

disciples to chant 64 rounds?

Prabhupada: Yes. l asked them to chant 32?

Prabhupada: (grinning) Hm.

Aksayananda Swami: Is that correct?

Prabhupada: Sankhy-purvaka nama-gana-natibhih. Sankhya purva, or numerical

strength must be there. And you should follow rigidly.

Aksayananda Swami: So if, if we are serious and sincere, it means that that

sixteen will increase to, ah, to continuously chanting.

Prabhupada: You can do also now. It's not that because I've finished sixteen

rounds...

Aksayananda Swami: No.

Prabhupada: You can increase. But that sixteen must be finished.

Aksayananda Swami: Yes. (pause) What I mean is, that's to bring us to the

platform of chanting constantly. That at least we do that numerical number,

finally we may be able to do, if we're fortunate to chant constantly day and

night.

Prabhupada: Yes.

 

MINIMUM IS 64 BUT IT HAS BEEN FURTHUR MINIMIZED

 

Letter to: Purusottama, Bombay, 23 October, 1973

 

Because we have got many duties, [text missing] ...ve minimized the amount

to 16 rounds, otherwise [text missing] ...minimum is 64 rounds, but Western

people cannot [text missing] ...this. So 16 rounds must be executed.

 

Nectar of Instruction, Verse 5:

 

The Krsna consciousness movement prescribes sixteen rounds daily because

people in the Western countries cannot concentrate for long periods while

chanting on beads. Therefore the minimum number of rounds is prescribed.

However, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura used to say that unless one

chants at least sixty-four rounds of japa (one hundred thousand names), he

is considered fallen (patita). According to his calculation, practically

every one of us is fallen, but because we are trying to serve the Supreme

Lord with all seriousness and without duplicity, we can expect the mercy of

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is famous as patita-pavana, the deliverer

of the fallen.