Chant 16 rounds. Sleep less....

Bhaktadas : In those days, he would lecture on Monday evenings at the La Cienega temple. All the devotees would line the sidewalks waiting for him to arrive. When he drove up we all bowed down, and Srila Prabhupada walked down the line of devotees, sometimes patting a devotee on the head. We were always trying to understand whether or not he was accepting our service. If he patted you, you felt that, 'I'm not worthy. He's just giving me some encouragement'. And if he didn't, you felt the same thing. After we'd moved into the new temple on Watseka Avenue, Srila Prabhupada gave Sri Isopanisad classes every day. One day after class he asked, "Is everyone chanting sixteen rounds?" I raised my hand and said, 'Srila Prabhupada, I'm not chanting sixteen rounds'. Srila Prabhupada said, "Why aren't you chanting sixteen rounds?" I said, 'Srila Prabhupada, I am working twenty hours a day. The temple president doesn't give me sufficient time to chant'. He said, "Then sleep two hours. Chant sixteen rounds." In other words, Srila Prabhupada strongly told me, 'Don't diminish your work for the chanting. Diminish your sleep'. I took it seriously and would spend late nights standing in the hot water closet trying to finish my rounds. Later I found out that hardly anyone chanted sixteen rounds, because the leaders thought that work was more important than chanting.