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A devotee always has a taste for chanting Hare Krsna:

There is a verse in which Srila Rupa Gosvami says, avyartha-kalatvam:
[Cc. Madhya 23.18-19] a devotee should be very much careful to see
whether his time is being spent unnecessarily. He should ask himself,
"Am I now engaged in maya's service or Krsna's service?" This is a
symptom of an advanced devotee. Nama-gane sada rucih: such a devotee
is never tired of chanting, singing, or dancing. The word sada means
"always," and ruci means "taste." A devotee always has a taste for
chanting Hare Krsna: "Oh, very nice. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna
Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare." This is
taste. Of course, this taste takes time to awaken, but when Rupa
Gosvami was chanting he was thinking, "I have only one tongue and two
ears. What can I appreciate of chanting? If I could have millions of
tongues and trillions of ears, then I could relish something by
chanting and hearing." Of course, we should not imitate him, but the
devotees of the Krsna consciousness movement must at least be very
careful to complete their sixteen rounds, their minimum amount of
prescribed chanting. Nama-gane sada rucih: we have to increase our
taste for singing and chanting Hare Krsna.

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