Sleeping and eating, this is the material disease. Sleeping, eating, mating... So they should be reduced as much as possible

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"Sleeping and eating, this is the material disease. Sleeping, eating, mating . . . so they should be reduced as much as possible"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

You have to spend two hours for Kṛṣṇa out of twenty-four...sleeping and eating, this is the material disease. Sleeping, eating, mating... So they should be reduced as much as possible... you can sleep till you are refreshed. Somebody's refreshed by sleeping four hours. Somebody is refreshed by sleeping ten hours.

680323 - Morning Walk - San Francisco:

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.