"Details On Chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra" by Jayapataka Swami.

The people chant every half the mantra they're breathing more time. I didn't hear it particularly. I wasn't listening for it. I was listening mainly for the other things you can see. How about. Because that also delays, makes it longer if you do more breathing. There's no hard and fast rule for chanting. It's not any specific rule. How many breaths? How many mantras per breath? Nothing practical. If you take a deep breath, see how many mantras you can chant. One breath at the end. This H means Hare. K means Krishna. R means Ram. As I put like this Hare. Or maybe like this Hare. That means that sometimes people were chanting. Set up. I'll say they were chanting. Maybe the last one got chopped or sometimes. Right, like machine gun. So that's one note. The people do one word at a time. Sometimes you just add or subtract. Because it's all this kind of big one long, 16 words. Three, Krishna. Two or four. Three more or less. Same, right? Then you usually won't leave out one, leave out two, but not one. You think of them in pairs. Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. Krishna, Krishna. Someone told me a meditation that one time Krishna was calling Hare. Oh Radha. Radha was calling. Hey Krishna. Hey Radha. Hey Radha. Hey Krishna. Hey Krishna. Then Radha said, Krishna, Krishna. So like this that they come in pairs. I never saw that written in a scripture. But someone was giving a lecture, said, I meditate. Maybe it's written somewhere. But anyway, I'm not saying that's really happened. But at least that's something we can use as a meditation. So Hare, of course is the most common word that is addressing the shakti. Each of these are two syllable words in Sanskri. When you write it in Sanskrit, it's only two letters. Two letters with a little. The A has another little thing. And then Krish. This is one combined letter. All attractive. And na means reservoir of all pleasure. Krish has the S with a dot under it means an R with a dot is a very quick re. Re. The words with the R. I would be re, but this is re. N with the dot mean that N is in the upper part of the Kush. You just put the tongue up on the top fish. Not two ends in Sanskrit. Four actually, but two main ones. One is with the tongue of the teeth, na. One is with the tongue in the back roof of the mouth. Roof of the mouth, Na. It's very hard to hear. It took me years to be able to hear the difference. But there's a difference. Anyway, Krishna is going to take it wherever you chanted he's going to love you for it. Don't worry. So even imperfect, we haven't got into the perfect chanting that comes in the next verse. A little better chanting. But even the imperfect chanting can eradicate so much of this material ignorance. And by chanting, and this is just accidental chanting, it can awaken spiritual knowledge. So what to speak? You're chanting every day, regularly, in devotion. This has a very great effect. Develop your pure chanting poster in your relationship with the Holy Name.