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<div class="heading">Because the time has changed. You have to take, consider according to the time, circumstances, atmosphere. Here, at the present moment, our mind is so disturbed that concentration of meditation is not possible.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.3-4 -- San Francisco, March 8, 1967|Lecture on SB 7.6.3-4 -- San Francisco, March 8, 1967]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: If meditation without chanting was at one time successful, why is it now deficient?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because the time has changed. You have to take, consider according to the time, circumstances, atmosphere. Here, at the present moment, our mind is so disturbed that concentration of meditation is not possible. But this chanting, as soon as we chant, by force our mind is engaged in chanting and hearing, by force: "Hare Kṛṣṇa." So even my mind is disturbed, by the vibration I am attracted. So that is, this meditation is recommended. Other meditation, if I sit down and think, I am thinking of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, which is red. At once a red bird comes in my vision and the bird begins to fly and it goes away. You see? So that kind of artificial meditation will not succeed. Meditation is not actually possible in this age.</p>
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