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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
[[Category:Questions On... Process of Krsna Consciousness - Bhakti-yoga]]
[[Category:Questions On... Meditation]]
[[Category:Questions On... Publicity, Public Relations, Public Press]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Room Conversations, 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - in India, Mayapur]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Answering Questions, 1977]]
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<div class="heading">This is a better meditation. Meditation... One is performing meditation silently. But if we chant "Hare Kṛṣṇa," it is forced meditation. He has to meditate. So it is better meditation.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With Artists and About BTG -- February 25, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation With Artists and About BTG -- February 25, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: I've seen in some articles they have written to defend our society from the attack of deprogrammers, sometimes one argument they give is that meditation and chanting are being studied by scientists, and they are finding the effects to be good. Now...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Effect will be good. And if we do it properly it will be first class.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Now, these scientists, they are studying Hare Kṛṣṇa meditation, but they're also studying some other processes which are not authorized. And they are...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the defect.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: And they're stating that in general, to meditate, to chant mantra, this is good, this is healthy for the mind.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. The thing is that some way or other, if you are near the fire, you'll get some heat, but there is a process how to take heat.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Oh, yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That you cannot reject. "Because I am getting little heat, it is sufficient," that is sahajiyā.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: So we are trying to use their endorsements and then make it very specific that "Therefore to meditate using the Hare Kṛṣṇa, this is healthy." So why are you attacking us?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: We're trying like that. They are endorsing something else.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: This is a better meditation. Meditation... One is performing meditation silently. But if we chant "Hare Kṛṣṇa," it is forced meditation. He has to meditate. So it is better meditation. Just like they're chanting. I am engaged in different business. Still, I am hearing. (kīrtana in background) This is the... And one is silently meditating, he's getting, maybe he's getting the benefit, but here anyone who is hearing, getting benefit. Therefore chanting is better than... Yes. And it is recommended by Haridāsa Ṭhākura that... This is discussed in Caitanya-caritāmṛta, that "Chanting, even the trees, even the insects and the animals, they will hear and they get the benefit." So it is better meditation. Even the trees, plants, animals, birds, beasts, they can take benefit. And if it is done by pure Vaiṣṇava, then they get the full benefit.</p>
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