And in rajas, the mind is trying to fix problems. And part of that is a sense of survival. "I have to do this in order to be whole, I have to stave off what I fear." We're in fear mode. That's more touching tamas and then rajas mode. "I'm going to fix it myself," and it takes a while to come out of that mode. The modes are no joke. They actually are very powerful energy: daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī. So how we interact with the modes throughout our days and what we think about—it's not that we just sit down and all of a sudden we just switch over into this pure flow of the holy name. It's a product of everything we do from morning till night. That's why the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa goes along with the pañcarātrika system—that they go on two tracks.

So the Holy Name is the deliverer. There's nothing else needed. But can you just chant? Or do you think about all your problems? So you're not alone in that. It's the product of the Age of Kali—there's so much rajas and tamas, and our lifestyles are absorbed in rajas and tamas. And you do have a lot going on. You're going to school, you're working, you're doing all these things. So naturally, the mind is in that hyper mode of rajas. So a little more adjustment in some of the things you do throughout the day, like the way you wake up, the way you keep your mind engaged throughout the day, you just by degrees change from rajas habits to sāttvic habits.

You know, like the screen. The screen has become ubiquitous. Everywhere I go, everywhere I look, everyone's got a screen in front of their face, and what's coming out of it? It's, if you analyze it, unless you're really only tuned into one app that's like the Hare Kṛṣṇa app, whatever that might be. And you know you're reprogramming your mind in rajas. Then you sit down to chant, and it is going to take you at 64 rounds before you start to feel something. A few rounds, you may just be somewhere else. Your mind's still going on the scroll. So then, what do you do?

Start to adjust something like, do some Deity sevā, clean something, sweep something to, you know, add that in another 0.05% of your life. Go for another habit, and then start increasing on that side, and you'll see that that goes in parallel lines with your chanting, the lifestyle that we lead. That's why we follow four regulative principles. Because the four regulative principles, the energy that comes from the material world, is also assumed within those four prohibitions. And if you touch those by vision, by hearing, and all those kinds of things, then it just stays there in the mind, and it takes a long time to sweep that garbage out of there. So just by degrees, tiny bit at a time, so you don't feel overwhelmed, transfer your mind to sattva-guṇa. Get into sāttvic habits. And if you see yourself doing rajas habits, then put a time limit on it.

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