Glorifying Krishna twenty-four hours a day is insufficient time to even begin to properly cover His glories. Krishna's glories are so unlimited that even if there were an unlimited number of reporters writing an infinite number of stories about His activities, teachings, and qualities, they could never in all of eternity even come close to scratching the surface of even the most insignificant fraction of an infinitesimal fragment of His glories.
But at the same time Krishna is very accessible. He has made Himself so readily and personally available to us in the form of the deity, the Hare Krishna mantra, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Srimad Bhagavatam. We can also access Him through favorably associating with His devotees, visiting Sri Vrindavan Dham in India, and honoring Krishna prasadam.
If a devotee can fully understand and appreciate even one pastime, quality, or instruction of the Lord that will be sufficient for his being delivered from the cycle of birth and death. This is the great potency of Krishna. He is fully, completely manifested even in the slightest, most insignificant portion of His unlimited glories. So we don't have to know everything about Krishna. This is not actually possible. Even Krishna does not know everything about Krishna.
Someone may ask, "How is that possible? I thought God was omniscient."
Yes, God is certainly omniscient. But His glories are unlimitedly expanding at every second so much so that at every second His cognizance of His ever-expanding glories is struggling like anything to keep up with His ever-expanding glories and always lagging behind. As soon as He has fully understood and realized His unlimited glories, they have already expanded themselves far, far beyond what He has just realized.
So if God, with His unlimited cognizance, can never fully understand His own ever-expanding glories, what hope do we have? Simply we have to understand enough about Him to get out of this material existence. That is sufficient. In this regard Lord Krishna states in the Bhagavad-gita:
janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so 'rjuna
"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna."
---Bhagavad-gita 4.9
So let us apply ourselves fully to understanding Krishna's greatness by hearing about Him and serving Him with love. This sincere endeavor will qualify us to be the recipients of His special mercy and thus be enabled to attain the supreme perfection of going back home, back to Godhead.
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