Prabhupāda: First thing is, their calculation of Candra . . . moon planet, they have different views. Different scientists, they have different views. It is not a standard. They have not agreed to the . . . somebody says something, somebody says another thing. Speculation. That's all.
But that idea, that it is very low in temperature, that is mentioned in Bhāgavata also. You cannot live in the water. You have to qualify yourself.
(ducks quacking)
Just see. Their body is made just suitable for the water. So you have to qualify yourself. That is . . .
Just like in the spiritual sky they can live only spiritual body, and material body cannot live there. Material body is not allowed there. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthā madhye tiṣṭhanti rājasāḥ (BG 14.18). Those who are too much passionate, they are meant to live in this planet. This planetary system, status. There are many other planets like this world. So they are allowed to live here. Here all living entities, they are very much passionate.
And adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ. And there are other planets, they are dark, dark planets, below this earthly planet. And the animals, they are in darkness. Although they're on this park, but they do not know where they are, darkness. Their knowledge is not developed. So this is the result of the modes of ignorance.
And those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, they are neither in darkness, nor in passion, nor in goodness. They are transcendental. So if one cultivates Kṛṣṇa consciousness nicely, he is at once promoted to the Kṛṣṇaloka. That is wanted.
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. We should be . . . the main thing is that we should always be careful that we are going . . . we have taken up a very responsible task, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So we should be very much careful in discharging the duty. The devotee should be so much careful that he'll always see, "Whether this moment is spoiled or utilized?" Avyartha-kālatvam (CC Madhya 23.18). Avyartha-kālatvam, that "My time may not be wasted." He should be so careful, "Whether my time is being wasted?" And time wasted, the time we engage for our bodily necessities, that is wasted. Generally, conditioned souls, they are simply wasting their time. Only the period which we are engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is utilized. So we should be very much careful whether time is being wasted or being utilized.
Śarādīyā: Sometimes, well, if you slept less, we could do more for Kṛṣṇa, but at the same time you would be very tired. I mean, you could be . . . well, you could regulate that.
Prabhupāda: Yes.