I recently received a letter from a devotee, where he asked, “Maybe you can share with me some of your thoughts about what you want to accomplish in this life?” I told him that what I wanted to accomplish was to be able to chant purely, and that if I wished to achieve this, I was going to have to spend the rest of my life doing the following: chanting in the association of devotees who have a taste for chanting, and preaching the glories of the Lord’s holy name according to my realization and by setting any example in my own practice of chanting.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 149