What do you know what you are chanting? First of all prepare yourself to come to the stage of perfect chanting. This is sevā. Always be engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service: how to decorate the temple, how to invite people, giving the feast, write books, distribute books and knowledge. In this way don't sit idly. Always be engaged. Always. Just like our Karandhara, he has taken so much responsibility. He is doing. I am very pleased. He is prepared to do the masonry work and building work and distribution of book, accounting.
In this way, we shall be always busy. Find out some work. "I have no work now . . ." Of course, the sixteen rounds must be chanted, compulsory. Rest time, simply find out where is Kṛṣṇa's work. Why sixteen rounds? It now takes only two hours; you have got twenty-four hours. What you will do twenty-four hours? You cannot sleep more than six hours, seven hours, that's all. So two hours chanting and seven hours sleeping. Sleeping is a very important thing in your country, but reduce it. You see? As much as you reduce sleeping and eating, you will become advanced.
That is the Gosvāmīs, nidrāhāra-vihāra-vijitau (Śrī Ṣaḍ Gosvāmy Aṣṭaka), conquered over sleeping, eating and mating. Because these three . . . four things āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithun . . . these are material life. The spiritual life means reduction of these things. When it is nil—no more sleeping, no more eating—that is spiritual . . . perfection of spiritual life. So we cannot make it nil so long this body is there, but our policy should be like that. Policy should be like that.
We shall not eat more, we shall not sleep more, we shall not mate more. Exc . . . those who are gṛhasthas, they can have sex life only for producing children, that's all. No more. And those who are sannyāsī, brahmacārī, they have no sex life, there is no question of sex life. Sex life is prohibited. But it is a concession for them who cannot live without sex life. That is married life.