CC Antya 11.23
Bengali
প্রভু কহে, — ‘কোন্ ব্যাধি, কহ ত’ নির্ণয় ?’ তেঁহো কহে, — ‘সংখ্যা-কীর্তন না পূরয়’ ॥ ২৩ ॥
Verse text
prabhu kahe, — ‘kon vyādhi, kaha ta’ nirṇaya?’
teṅho kahe, — ‘saṅkhyā-kīrtana nā pūraya’
teṅho kahe, — ‘saṅkhyā-kīrtana nā pūraya’
Synonyms
Translation
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu further inquired from Haridāsa, “Can you ascertain what your disease is?”
Purport
Haridāsa Ṭhākura replied, “My disease is that I cannot complete my rounds.”
If one cannot complete the fixed number of rounds he is assigned, he should be considered to be in a diseased condition of spiritual life. Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura is called nāmācārya. Of course, we cannot imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura, but everyone must chant a prescribed number of rounds. In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we have fixed sixteen rounds as the minimum so that the Westerners will not feel burdened. These sixteen rounds must be chanted, and chanted loudly, so that one can hear himself and others.