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How Can We Chant Attentively? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Name: How Can We Chant Attentively? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives
Uploaded: 2023-11-08T23:30:00Z
Channel: Jayapataka Swami
Description: A short excerpt from a YouTube lecture ("How Can We Chant Attentively? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives") presenting guidance on attentive chanting in a…

8 Nov 2023

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A short excerpt from a YouTube lecture ("How Can We Chant Attentively? #JayapatakaSwamiArchives") presenting guidance on attentive chanting in a devotional/meditation context. The speaker emphasizes engaging all the senses—sight (deity/picture), hearing (mantra), speech (tongue/lips), smell (incense/prasadam)—so practitioners feel absorbed in mantra meditation. The excerpt frames deity images and physical offerings as aids that draw the senses into Krishna-focused chanting.

Seeing a picture of Ka Prabhad or chanting in front of the deity of Prabhupada is considered attentive chanting. In fact, if we chant one of the deities who are using our eyes to see Krishna, who are using our tongue and lips to say Kajna in our ears, to hear Ka, using all our senses and to have incense, we're smelling the prasadam of Ka and then we feel the all our senses are absorbed in the mantra meditation.