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CC Antya 6.310 (1975)



His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 310

sāḍe sāta prahara yāya kīrtana-smaraṇe
āhāra-nidrā cāri daṇḍa seha nahe kona dine


SYNONYMS

sāḍe sāta prahara—7.5 praharas (one prahara equals three hours); yāya—is spent; kīrtana-smaraṇe—in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and remembering the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa; āhāra-nidrā—eating and sleeping; cāri daṇḍa—four daṇḍas (one daṇḍa equals twenty-four minutes); seha—that; nahe—is not; kona dine—some days.


TRANSLATION

Raghunātha dāsa spent more than twenty-two hours out of every twenty-four chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and remembering the lotus feet of the Lord. He ate and slept for less than an hour and a half, and on some days that also was impossible.