Invest In Sadhana | HG Vaisesika Dasa and HG Nirakula Dasi | Disciple Sanga | 01 Apr 2026

You should have a quota for reading.Take a number where you mark it and you make sure you finish it—even if it's one verse or one page—or if you feel like you can do more, try to do more. Because those vows that you make to read Prabhupāda's books every day in a certain amount, they'll push out of the way a lot of the frivolous other things. And for the frivolous other things, the thoughts, you can tell your mind, "We'll get to those later after I finish my quota." That's Haridāsa Ṭhākura's trick. When the prostitute came and said, "Hi,' he said, "Yeah, no problem. Just wait. I got to finish my rounds." And we should have the same fortification: that every day we have a series of things that we finish first, even to the chagrin of our whimsical friends who say, "Come on, let's do this; let's do that." Say, "Sure, after I finish my chapter, and after I finish my pages, and of course, after I finish my rounds—then we can do this thing." And next thing you know, they're going to go, 'All right, well, we'll chant the chapter with you," and then the whole environment will change. That's our daily protection, because any given day we can veer from the path and go somewhere else. So sādhana has to be serious, strict, and calculated. We should line it up at home. Get your ironing board and open it up—it's nice and long. Put down all the śāstra that you're going to read that day. Line it up: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Put your bead bag first; put your Bhāgavatam second; put your Bhagavad-gītā third. What else you're going to put on there? Whatever it is. An ironing board is long enough; you can put it all down there. And if somebody else needs it, get another ironing board! But have it—that's how you should line up. (For the context of the ironing board, please watch https://youtu.be/vacZxESREFw?t=3475) So when you wake up in the morning, you go right for your thing. You have it set up. If you go for a drive and you're not driving—well, even if you are driving—have something lined up that you can listen to, that you're finishing. This is the method of the Goswāmīs: 'saṅkhyā-pūrvaka-nāma-gāna-natibhiḥ.' They counted everything. Everybody who counts, they make progress. In business, if you count, you make progress. What kind of business is it where they don't count anything? "What's the quarterly report?" "We don't know, we're just going along." "What's the yearly report? "We don't have one, we just do the best we can." There's no progress there.So, same thing in spiritual life. This is our time to cultivate while you're young and you're vital; make sure you invest. Invest in sādhana. It's the only investment really necessary for the human form of life. I was just reading yesterday from the 11th Canto about varṇāśrama. Whoever was in the car, we all heard it together. Is it that when I get in the car, I always have a speaker system ready so that everybody in the car can hear? Pull it out and read. And what an impression I got from that yesterday; it was talking about... ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 ------------------------------------------------------------