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- A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason?
- A lot of devotees, they never read the books, but they're doing the chanting. It will progress them without reading the books, because they're the most important?
- Ah, but sir, what is lacking ("if you chant Rama, then gradually you will get attachment for Rama. Then how you can give it up?")?
- Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now
- And the actual importance of the Hare Krsna chant, is that in saying the name?... Or is it a... continuous flow?
- Any activities in Krsna consciousness... Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Are there not enough people chanting to their God or to the one God?
- Are they supposed to chant the mantra throughout the day?
- Are we going to have any kirtana tonight? What is the program
- Are we supposed to chant twenty-four hours?
- Are we to believe in that by chanting the holy name of Krsna that we can attain a higher conscious level on this earth and attain self-realization without going through all the rigors of the old Vedas, scriptures?
- Are you going to have any kirtana also tonight?
- Are your disciples supposed to chant the mantra all the time?
- As for your question about the ecstasy of chanting and working for Krishna...
- As soon as you start chanting, bhakti starts, and then further development is the result of chanting?
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- Besides the chanting Hare Krsna and arousing this Krsna consciousness in the people, what else are you doing to establish the way...?
- Brahmana initiation should be strict (actually chanting sixteen rounds, following the regulative principles)... Those are the important...?
- Buddha's name is also considered hari-nama?
- But can't we bring chanting of japa into it? Mantra Yoga (regarding the starting up of yoga courses for tourists in Vrndavana and Bombay)
- But for his actions other than just following the four regulative principles and chanting sixteen rounds. He does so many other things during the day. Where does he derive his authority if he's not, let's say, living in the temple?
- But how about the people living next door or the people...(everyone can sit down and chant Hare Krsna mantra)?
- But is the converse true, that we chant very well and that we can love Krsna even when we cannot love our fellow people?
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- Can he hear? We say "Rama, Rama." Can he hear that?
- Can I ask one more question, Swamiji?… Some people are more inclined to worship Rama, saying Hare Rama, Hare Rama instead of Hare Rama, Hare Krsna, both?
- Can one chant when working?
- Can one say om instead of "Krsna" and gain the same benefit?
- Can the name of God be pronounced, uttered?
- Can this mantra also be chanted afterwards, in addition, also on the beads?
- Can we just have the chanting without instructions?
- Can you explain what I read in one of your books, that the sound spoken either in chanting a mantra or when talking about God or Krsna is somehow transcendental sound, though it's spoken with the same voice?
- Can you tell me some more about chanting Hare Krsna?
- Can you tell me the chant? Will you recite the chant to me? And then tell me why it's used so often by the followers?... The Krishna chant
- Chanting His names, surrendering to Him, feeling love for Him, doing service. Is that not or would that not take one person to...?
- Chanting in the temple increases the?
- Chanting is devotional service?
- Chanting is mental concentration, is it?
- Chanting, following the orders of the spiritual master... Is that considered offenseless chanting?
- Could it (chanting Hare Krsna) be called the true yoga of our time?
- Could you just count numbers and think about God and that would work just as well? Are the names important? Could you just count - one, two, three, four - and that would work just as well?
- Could you say that prayer again of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, "You chant Hare Krsna..."? I didn't understand that
- Could you tell me about the Hare Krsna mantra because it's so important to Krsna consciousness
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- Daily how many times you'll utter the names of Lord Krsna?
- Do the rickshaw drivers in Letchmore Heath chant Hare Krsna?
- Do they (people who join) have to wear those clothes and shave their heads and chanting those things...?
- Do you agree with that, Prabhupada? Isn't it? Prabhupada, Prabhupada? Do you agree with that, though, that it was not necessary to, say chant continually out in a doctor's surgery or...?
- Do you find that the chant goes on in your heart?
- Do you find that you chant, it clarifies you?
- Do you sing any hymns, kirtanas in Bengali also?
- Do you think that the Hare Krsna chant could serve as an intermediary to link the religious tendencies of, both of Christianity and Muslim religions?
- Do you want to have responsive chanting?
- Does it do atheists any good to chant your verses if they only want to be happy through chanting them?
- Does that sound right (and if for some reason it's not effective, then we have to trust simply in krsna-nama. That we're doing anyway, but that's... We'll have to do exclusively at that point), Srila Prabhupada?
- Don't you think that all the other chantings like in the Muslim religion and the Buddhist religion and the Japanese religion, their chantings, they are all the same thing?
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- Hare Krsna means what? "Brahman, please remove from me the... " Isn't it?
- Has the name a special esoteric meaning? And is the technique of chanting the name, has this a special hidden purpose that the unenlightened...
- He is asking if it is possible for them to chant the name God, that in fact is not really a name, by the name Krsna, because according to what you are explaining, God is Krsna. So can they chant the name of Krsna?
- He would like to know if to instruct young Christians to chant the name of Krsna will be helping them attain the highest perfection or if it is changing their religion?
- How about the meaning of the chanting. You are insist on chanting?
- How can one rid oneself of sex desire if one continues to chant Hare Krsna yet is still being plagued by desire for sex?
- How could the mere repetition of words bring about God realization?
- How do we chant Hare Krsna?
- How do you develop the strength to keep chanting even when maya is making you so attracted?
- How do you know that a name (of God) is approved?
- How does repeating one word, "Krsna," or singing "Rama" and "Krsna" help achieving the way?
- How does she get Krsna's instructions while chanting?
- How long a sankirtana to begin with, do you think?
- How many minutes do you recommend a day? How many minutes do you chant?
- How to see Lord Krsna? Can anybody see Him by chanting the holy name Hare Krsna mantra? Is it possible for a human being in his short period of life?
- How was it possible for Ajamila to chant the name at the time of death?
- How will it be possible, Prabhupada, for a man whose mind is clouded to constantly chant Hare Krsna?
- How would you adapt the Krsna chanting to Christianity?
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- I ask, how could you meet the Supreme being by chanting...by chanting of worldly name, tuned on prayer...
- I believe, obviously, you would have ways, methods of becoming God conscious, Krsna conscious. What...? Sort of a meditation? Chanting? Or...?
- I come from village, and I'm happy now as I have taken to holy name and prasada. So more, other villagers... Half of these boys are from villages?
- I don't think there's just one mantra, sir. I feel that the entire mantra would be Om. And so Hare Krsna Rama would be just one part of Om. Now, isn't that true?
- I don't understand exactly how Krsna consciousness is different than the other religions. Like in Christianity, Judaism and Moslem they have the idea that a person can pray and sometimes chant, communicate with God, understand His way
- I don't understand how it is possible that from chanting that these weeds grow. So pulling out the weeds means avoiding the offenses in chanting the holy name?
- I mean the Kazi, he can be in the kirtana?
- I read a news report recently that you had said in Paris that you no longer taught your followers to chant simply the name of, the Hare Krsna mantra, because the name of God could be chanted in any form. Is that so?
- I understand that Hare Krsna is a scientific movement. Do you think that there is a scientific explanation for the way in which personal enlightenment by simply chanting Hare Krsna?
- I want to make sure I understood - that chanting this over a long time will also help affect where our body will go after we die, what form we'll come back in?
- I was told in the beginning you asked the first disciples to chant 64 rounds?... Is that correct?
- I wondered what "Rama" meant when we say the mantra, Hare Rama, you see.
- If a person says, "How do you find out? How we can find out other names (of God)?"
- If all it requires is chanting to be pure, then why do you require musical instruments, an altar, and flowers and things of this sort?
- If all that is required is chanting Hare Krsna, why do we have the pictures and the clothes and the instruments and the altar and Lord Jagannatha?
- If chanting means out loud, how can you do it all day while you're working in so many different situations? How can you chant out loud?
- If everybody started chanting Hare Krsna, then how, how would we eat? Who would run the factories?
- If Hare Krsna is such a strong, powerful mantra, is there any reason to chant anything else?
- If I'm trying to get people to chant, that's all I can do. And if that will purify them, then surrender will come. How can I force someone to surrender?
- If meditation without chanting was at one time successful, why is it now deficient?
- If our chanting is a form of prayer?
- If someone cannot chant sixteen rounds a day...?
- If the mantra itself has such power, does it matter where you receive it, where you take it?
- If the name of God is not material, how is it possible to pronounce it materially, with our material tongue?
- If we chant Hare Krsna, all our sinful activities are washed away. Is that so even if we chant offensively?
- If we chant more than sixteen rounds, can we chant bhaja sri-krsna-caitanya in our japa?
- If we've already committed so many offenses to chanting, now, at this point, how can we purify ourselves?
- If you advertise the maha-mantra gives some material benefit, isn't that an offense?
- If you chant from the lips or if you chant just in your mind as you walk?
- If you chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra and not follow the regulations, not reading your books, can you go back to Godhead?
- If you have no other suitable name, chant Krsna. That's Caitanya's...? Did He feel there were other suitable names?
- If you must have a spiritual body in order to go back home, she asks, is it only with this Hare Krsna mantra and by taking prasada that we achieve that body?
- If you were American, how would you say the chant? In other words, I know it has many translations, but what would it mean to you? How would you say it in English?
- In a situation where there's a choice between say chanting and reading. Is chanting a better activity than reading?
- In order to chant the holy name purely, is it necessary to have feelings of separation?
- In some of our larger temples is it (kirtana going twenty-four hours a day) also advisable?
- In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna tells Arjuna there's more than one method of attaining consciousness of Him, and those methods are suited to various types of people. I wonder if you consider that the chanting method is just one or whether it's the only one
- In the Sixth Canto of the Bhagavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally
- In the Vedas the maha-mantra is repeated Hare Rama, Hare Krsna. What is the significance of changing the order?
- Initiated devotee, and he follows those four regulative principles and chants sixteen rounds, will he go back to Godhead?
- Is chanting absolutely necessary in the knowing (of God)...?
- Is chanting Hare Krsna such a yogic process for realizing this (not only in my heart, God is also within the atom. So this is the first information. And then, by yogic process you have to realize it. Paramatma realization) ?
- Is chanting the most exalted or...?
- Is it a very good omen to see in your sleep state person showing to do the Hare Krsna chant?
- Is it all right to finish rounds in the temple when there's nothing to do?
- Is it also good to chant the name of a person who is holy, who is one with God, not the name of God?
- Is it better to chant the Hare Krsna mantra loud or is it better hide the mantra?
- Is it more beneficial for people to hear the Panca-tattva mantra than the Hare Krsna maha-mantra?
- Is it offensive to think of Krishna's Pastimes while chanting?
- Is it possible to chant within one's mind?
- Is it possible to sing the maha-mantra for someone else who has died, and will it have the same effect?
- Is it possible to talk and also to chant the mantra at the same time?
- Is it simply the nature of the name Krsna that this particular name is the most powerful?
- Is it true that if I follow the regulative principles, the four, that I will be able to chant without offense?
- Is it true that the Sri Krsna Caitanya mantra is more powerful than the maha-mantra?
- Is number important in chanting? It has to be certain number, or you can just chant?
- Is our chanting a form of prayer?
- Is that (all of your initiated disciples should chant twenty-five rounds minimum on ekadasi) a rule that we should all follow in our temples?
- Is that why (there is already name, Krsna. So why should Christ utter?) Christ didn't utter the name of Krsna?
- Is the chanting of Hare Krsna the answer to living successfully in today's world?
- Is there any difference in (indistinct) when somebody is chanting japa under the tree and someone who is chanting japa in the temple?
- Is there any result to chanting Krsna's name mechanically? Or must it be uttered with complete devotion?
- Is there room in the movement for other persons who are indirectly serving Krsna rather than chanting Hare Krsna all day?
- Is there some order of priority in service then? I mean, sixteen rounds is more important than anything else. And then following that, there's something else?
- Is this singing essential to the sustenance of your faith?
- Isn't it really a matter for the devotee, that one person may find Hare Krsna is more beneficial to his spiritual progress, and yet somebody else, some other mantra may be more beneficial? Isn't it like just a matter of taste? Like judging a flower
- It goes deeper and deeper (the chanting)?
- It seems to me that you chant, don't you, Hare Krsna?
- It's considered offenseless if, chanting, if one follows the orders of the spiritual master carefully?
- It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?
- It's said that Narada Muni delivered the chant to the Earth. Was it here before he came? And how long ago did he come?
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- Kirtana party should be called?
- Kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?
- Kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?... Kirtana?… Would you like to have kirtana now?
- Kirtana? Do you want some kirtana?
- Kirtana?… It's just beginning again, Srila Prabhupada. You like the kirtana? For a few days we weren't having it… You want him (Hamsaduta) to chant again? Should he chant some more?
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- Lately we have been singing Raghupati Raghava Rajarama. Is that part of your canon also?
- Lord Caitanya predicted the holy name will be preached in every town and village throughout the world, so to what extent will it be preached?
- Lord Caitanya, He would cry so that He could hear them chanting Hare Krsna to Him?
- Lord Jesus Christ said that "The only way to God is through me; just believe in me or surrender to me," and Lord Caitanya taught that hari-nama is the only means of spiritual realization in this age. Is there any contradiction?
- Lots of kirtana and prasadam (whatever you have learned from Krsna, from your guru, just vomit it, that's all. There is no need of becoming very expert. Simply whatever you learned. That's all)?
M
- May I please ask, is there is also room for physical yoga exercises while chanting of the God's names?
- More chanting?
- Must a person believe in Krsna in order to chant?
- My humble prayer was that by doing japa, by doing meditation, by doing bhakti-marga, need we go to jnana-marga also, or bhakti-marga is enough by itself?
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- Prabhupada, if someone is hearing the holy name in the street, if the sankirtana party is chanting, and they are atheists, what benefit is it for them?
- Prabhupada, if we follow these four regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds sincerely every day, all this nonsense knowledge will eventually be forgotten?
- Prabhupada, sometimes I've seen devotees say that they did not like to chant in the temple room with the opposite...
- Prabhupada, the other day you mentioned that during the eating activities, during sex activity, there is increase of breathing. Now, when we do the kirtana, there is much increase of breathing. So what is the difference?
- Prabhupada, what does it mean to chant seriously?
- Prabhupada, what was exactly predicted by Lord Caitanya when He predicted the Golden Age of Kali, the age in the Age of Kali when people would be chanting the Hare Krsna mantra?
- Prabhupada, when we do our chanting, the chanting beads contain 108 beads. Why is this, and why do we chant sixteen rounds?
- Prabhupada, when we're out on sankirtana, chanting, what would be the best way for us to engage the crowd to become participants in the chant with us?
- Prabhupada, why we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds?
- Prabhupada, you said that the greatest offense is to chant thinking that "My sins will be washed away" and commit sins, or wants to. So what is the result that that person gets if he dies in that condition?
- Prabhupada? If we chant more than sixteen rounds, so how can we know whether we are imitating Haridasa Thakura or following his footsteps?
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- Regarding responsive chanting
- Regarding the meter sung by Narada Muni
- Regarding your last question about the ecstatic symptoms of chanting Hare Krishna...
- Regarding your last question about the importance of chanting...
- Regarding your question about feeling emotions during kirtana
- Regarding your question about kirtana...
- Regarding your question about Krishna recommending the chanting of His Holy Names...
- Regarding your questions about various names of God...
- Right now we have so many preachers, so many other kinds of preachers in India. Then how can they get rid of them just by chanting?
- Roman Catholics don't agree with you on that (we are asking, "Chant the holy name of God"), do they? Roman Catholics have their own God
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- Say instead of Hare Rama Hare Rama, we say Visva ramane rahim, or something like that, will you have no objection to that?
- See, he actually went to Badrinath. When we call Narayana, Narayana, as our Lord, how is it Mayavada? How it comes into Mayavadi?
- Shall we chant some more?
- She asks if by repeating the mantra, the name of God, it has more...?
- Should we chant japa now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we have some chanting now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Should we try to go fast when we chant, in order to get the rounds done?
- Should you count every day how much japa you do?
- Sir, may I know the meaning of the divine name Hare Krsna and Hare Rama? The real meaning of the divine name Hare Krsna, Hare Rama?
- So all those sinful activities of these people have been eradicted now by saying Hare Rama?
- So chanting along with devotional service, performing our duties while concentrating on Krsna, is also part of the process, isn't it?
- So Srila Prabhupada, there's chanting party ready to do sankirtana. So may they come in?
- So that should be standard (chanting 25 rounds) for our movement on ekadasi day?
- So then part of initiation means that you're prepared to do something more than simply chant and eat prasadam?
- So you just chanted in Thompkins Park, and people came?
- So you mean to say, prabhu, truthfulness and honesty will come after chanting, chanting, chanting?
- So, for instance, if it (the word pollution) is used to indicate air pollution... then how will the chanting will affect that?
- Some birds, Srila Prabhupada, like the minah...? They can be taught to say something. So if they are taught to chant Hare Krsna... this is a good service?
- Some kirtana, Srila Prabhupada?
- Sometimes they say, Srila Prabhupada, that if everybody chants Hare Krsna, what shape would the world be in?
- Sometimes we forget to do our duty very attentively. By associating with Krsna through His name, then we can remember our duty?
- Srila Prabhupada, if after finishing one's sixteen rounds of the maha-mantra...?
- Srila Prabhupada, regarding karma. One does his job every day, and if he spends some time in the evening chanting Lord Krsna, do you approve this?
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes during arati, many bona fide bhajanas are sung, but not much Hare Krsna. Is that not a good tendency, that maybe just two or three minutes of Hare Krsna mantra and many other bhajanas?
- Srila Prabhupada, sometimes we try to meditate on Krsna, when we chant Hare Krsna, sinful memory from our past life is coming. How is this to be understood that Krsna says, "From Me the memory comes"
- Srila Prabhupada, then if I have Krsna's name and I understand that it is Krsna, then can I take it and go to the forest?
- Srila Prabhupada, what is the significance of the chant which everyone who has been around the Hare Krsna movement has heard? What is the significance of chanting Hare Krsna?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like a little soft chanting?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like a little soft kirtana?
- Srila Prabhupada, would you like us to have kirtana?
- Srila Prabhupada, you spoke about the three stages of chanting? And you were speaking about the middle stage, the clearing stage?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want to have kirtana?
- Srila Prabhupada? Do you want to take rest now for a while? Little rest. You want kirtana or anything?
- Srila Prabhupada? If they were more intelligent in previous ages, then why didn't they take to the chanting process? Why did they do it, the more difficult method, if they were more intelligent?
- Srila Prabhupada? This kirtana that's in the temple, can you hear it?
- Srila Prabhupada? Today we did kirtana starting in the afternoon till the evening. So do you want more than that?
- Srila Prabhupada? We have this twenty-four kirtana. I've requested everyone who comes to do at least one hour per day
- Srila Prabhupada? Would you like soft kirtana now, or quiet?
- Srila Prabhupada? You want to rest now? You've been talking for a long time. You want kīrtana or not now, Srila Prabhupada?
- Suppose if we don't follow it (the counting of number of rounds on japa), it's not beneficial?
- Suppose, for example, last night. I was chanting, and then I thought to myself, "Oh, I'm not concentrating on the chanting any more. Now I should go to sleep."
- Swamiji, does this chanting of mantra brings purity or following of your four instructions or regulations which you have told, or both?
- Swamiji, excuse me, is there any special significance of keeping this bead hidden from the public?
- Swamiji, I think she means do you have to do any kind of breathing exercising besides chanting?
- Swamiji, is there higher devotional service than chanting?
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- That chanting is not the stage you have to preserve all the time or practice all the time?
- That means they (people who are saying Hare Rama) will make more sinful activities?
- The chanting of Krsna's name, the Hare Krsna mantra, seems to play a very important role in the profession of your religious belief. Right?
- The first mantra, Hare Krsna mantra, that's for, you say, that's to clean the mind of the material contam...?
- The most obvious sign that we see of the Hare Krsna movement is your chanting and reciting of the mantra. Are there other valid forms of reaching God consciousness?
- The name is power, and to utter name...?
- The quality of the chanting he's asking. How can we make the quality the best?
- The sound krsna is not different from Krsna. Under all circumstances?
- There are so many stories of Lord Caitanya converting so many rascals. By just His presence, they would chant Hare Krsna. How can we get His mercy so that we can help the people around us to chant Hare Krsna?
- There seems to be also a stage of not thinking. Is that... When one is chanting, should they not think or should they think of Krsna?
- They (the Germans) couldn't chant those mantras though, could they? If they tried... Even if they tried, they wouldn't be able to chant the mantras
- They can chant (you are recommending sixteen as a minimum, and some devotees are choosing twenty as a minimum)?
- They say, "Then my chanting is useless? So I should stop?" That's what they say
- They still would not be allowed to do it (chant Hare Krishna) in school. There's a law against that, officially, in school... We should try to fight that?
- This chanting process is directed to everyone, or just those who...?
- This is what you have tried to do. Why is it necessary to concentrate on this name, "Krsna"?
- This mantra we chant for Krsna and Rama both, but this movement glorifies the Krsna's pastimes and not much of Rama
- To give up matter through the chanting of Hare Krsna, to make this contact by using the words of matter, how...?
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- Was the chanting of the name of Krsna effective as it is in this age or is there another method prescribed as being more effective?
- We always encourage chanting Hare Krsna, is that so?
- We chant, "Gaura Nityananda bol, haribol, haribol..."... "Gaura sri advaita..." Is it recommended by you? That is in our parampara? And what about "jaya jagannatha, jaya jagannatha"?
- We'll stop the chanting for a little while?
- Well, if Hare Krsna is the best one, what is the reason why we have to bother to even say anything else other than this one?
- Well, the diagnostic's not altogether clear to me how the chanting is going to affect the pollution. How do you see...?
- Well, when you're chanting it's (the false ego) dissolved, actually... Forget yourself?
- What about people who believe in Jesus, God? I mean, what about Christians? It might not have the same effect on them
- What about the idea that "You do not have to move into a temple, give up your family and everything, but you can actually chant Hare Krsna in your own home," that idea that "It is available to you..."?
- What are the qualities of the holy name?
- What are your views about silent meditation on one's, in one's own self, and this japa, gayatri-mantra?
- What does chanting do?
- What does Rama mean in Hare Rama? Is this Balarama or Lord Ramacandra?
- What effect to the followers does chanting give?
- What happens to your mind? What do you do with your mind when you chant?
- What if the person cannot chant sixteen rounds a day? He says, "I can't..."
- What is my position if I am chanting Hare Krsna mantra and I'm living in the association of the devotees, or I'm taking prasada, but I lose a taste or I have no desire, but for lack of having anything else to do, I remain?
- What is the first stage of transformation like in the consciousness after one discovers chanting Hare Krsna mantra?
- What is the function of the chanting?
- What is the meaning of this chanting? If we're chanting all day long, do we have to reach a certain consciousness?
- What is the most attractive and suitable name (of God) here in this material country?
- What is the outcome of continuous practice of the chant "Om?"
- What of a boy who does the chanting nicely and the kirtana nicely but doesn't do the school work nicely?
- What purpose does the chanting serve?
- What should you be thinking about when you're chanting?
- What you are doing by chanting is kind of...?
- What's the purpose of that rising? What's the purpose of that, the rising at 4:30, the chanting and study?
- When a person gradually go along the path and have, in the process, have some achievements, don't you agree that chanting is not the only attachment, or rather to know Krsna?
- When chanting our sixteen rounds, we are not sure if these rounds are sincere... How can we be sure?
- When chanting, you chant the name of Rama as well as Krsna. I do not see any photograph of Rama here. What is the thinking?
- When in the Bhagavad-gita it says that the maha-mantra cleanses the heart and soul, does that mean that when you just, like automatically say the word, will that cleanse your heart? Or should you try and remember Krsna with every word and every sound?
- When the devotees are chanting their rounds and when they think of their spiritual master they feel a type of ecstasy. So why are they feeling this ecstasy?
- When we chant japa in front of the Deity, does that correspond to this verse of meditating on the Lord limb by limb?
- When we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?
- When you chant Rama, should you have the form of Rama before you? Along with Radhe?
- When you chant, do you have to think what you're saying? How can you do other things?
- Where does it have to be (the mind while chanting)? It has to be fixed?
- Whether it's a secret mantra or an open mantra, it's all the name of God. So it doesn't really make much difference, does it, which one you sing?
- Which would you like (we shall chant our beads or read book?)?
- While we are chanting our rounds, or while we are chanting out loud in kirtana, is it all right to be engaging our mind in thinking?
- Who's chanting free from the offenses?
- Why are we talking about the Rama in this mantra?
- Why at the time of death, the name of God does not come?
- Why do we say chant, but not sing?
- Why don't we serve man instead of chanting Hare Krsna?
- Why is it recommended, chanting in this age particularly?
- Why is it that this mahamantra is so attractive to Western countries?
- Why is Om not figured in your play?
- Why not less or more (we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds)?
- Why not start an authoritative group of Christians who chant Hare Krsna, who study the Bible and read the Bhagavad-gita?
- Why that (we have chosen this sixteen as a number to chant the rounds) sixteen minimum?
- Will people still be chanting Hare Krsna in 400,000...?
- Will this aid us in our concentrating on chanting our japa, if we try to concentrate, if we sit erect while chanting?
- Without taking diksa from the guru also utters the name of Lord Krsna with devotion?
- Would it be possible to run scientific tests on the chanting, the sound of Hare Krsna, to make a distinction between that sound and the sound of an automobile's horn? Would that be perceptible?
- Would you like Bharadvaja to sing a little?
- Would you like Hamsaduta to chant some more?
- Would you like some chanting?
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- You can't read or talk to someone (while chanting)?
- You say the chanting cleans the dust from the mirror of the mind. What does mirror mean? How does it mean mirror? What is it reflecting?
- You stated that the reason that we forget is that we change, the body changes. Now when we chant, we remember. I wish you could sort of elaborate on why we forget. I don't completely understand
- You want them to go into the temple and perform kirtana?
- You'd like it (kirtana) to be throughout the night?
- Your Divine Grace, do you think that chanting the Hare Krsna mantra is the only way to achieve liberation?
- Your Grace, how many times do you recommend that I chant on my beads? How many rounds?
- Your question about not chanting while attending class...