Prabhupāda: You are all chanting sixteen rounds? No? (laughs)
Śarādīyā: I did at first, but then I slipped back.
Prabhupāda: Is it very difficult?
Mālatī: No. We do not know how yet to regulate our time too well. Some days we chant sixteen rounds, and then the next day, I don't know what happens. I think we sleep too much—I mean, I think I sleep too much.
Prabhupāda: How many hours you are sleeping?
Mālatī: About six to eight.
Prabhupāda: That is not much. Sixteen . . . it takes only two hours, sixteen rounds. Huh? Two hours, or more than that?
Mālatī: Two hours is all it takes to do the rounds.
Prabhupāda: So you have to spend two hours for Kṛṣṇa out of twenty-fours.
(japa)
Yes?
Girl devotee (2): Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Girl devotee (2): Is there something wrong with sleeping eight hours?
Prabhupāda: Sleeping and eating, this is the material disease. Sleeping, eating, mating . . . so they should be reduced as much as possible.
Girl devotee (2): If you're still tired . . .
Prabhupāda: No, you can sleep till you are refreshed. Somebody's refreshed by sleeping four hours; somebody is refreshed by sleeping ten hours.
Mālatī: But we should not sleep when we have . . . in place of our devotional service.
Prabhupāda: No, of course not. Devotional service is first.
Mālatī: So if we miss some sleep, we should do it.
Prabhupāda: We should forego sleeping even. The real regulated life is that if sixteen rounds is not completed, then we have to go . . . forego sleeping. You should take out hours from sleeping.