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Three Hundred Thousand Names
The Hare Krishna Japa website recommends “With a little practice, you should be able to chant each round in approximately eight minutes, allowing the full 16 rounds to be done in about two hours and fifteen minutes.”
If Haridasa Thakura chanted at a pace of eight minutes per round, I multiply eight minutes per round times 173.6 rounds. The result is 1392 minutes per day of chanting.
The number of hours would be 1392 minutes divided by 60 minutes per hour, which equals 23.2 hours per day to chant 300,000 holy names.
At eight minutes per round, the time is under 24 hours a day, but still, how? How could Haridasa Thakura chant rounds at eight minutes per round for 23.2 hours out of 24 hours in a day, every day? Chanting 23.2 hours per day would leave .8 hours, which equals 48 minutes. What about sleeping, eating, washing, etc? 
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