But you cannot get along without the bhagavat-vidhi

Revatinandan Dasa: These were big days. These were some of my favorite days of the year because we got to have kirtan for hours at a stretch; and after about two hours of chanting in continuous kirtan, it goes through a kind of a change. This special thing used to happen where you felt like you were listening while your body did it, and it got real sweet at that time. And then you could go on and on and on and on after that. There were times when I led for 10 hours without stopping at a Rathayatra. This is when the sankirtan portion of the movement, which was the real movement, was in full swing at that time. Prabhupada used to say, "Our movement runs on two tracks - the pancaratriki-vidhi and the bhagavat-vidhi." And he defined the pancaratriki-vidhi as being all of the regulations connected with deity worship basically by which devotees pattern their life, timing everything every day. And the bhagavat-vidhi he defined as chanting, dancing, feasting and philosophy. And that's exactly how he defined it, he just said those four terms. He said, "I have written in our books that our movement runs on both tracks simultaneously, and they are both equally important." But then he told me another time, he said, "But I'll tell you, you can get along without the pancaratriki-vidhi in this age but you cannot get along without the bhagavat-vidhi." So his main stress was on this, and it was livewire.