aṣṭa-prahara kṛṣṇa-bhajana, cāri daṇḍa śayane
nāma-saṅkīrtane seha nahe kona dine

 aᚣᚭa-prahara - twenty-four hours; kṛṣṇa-bhajana - worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa; cāri daṇḍa - four daṇḍas (one daṇḍa equals twenty-four minutes); Ĺ›ayane - for sleeping; nāma-saṅkÄŤrtane - because of chanting the holy name of the Lord; seha - that much time; nahe - not; kona dine - some days.


Text

“They engage almost twenty-four hours daily in rendering service to the Lord. They usually sleep only an hour and a half, and some days, when they continuously chant the Lord’s holy name, they do not sleep at all.

Purport