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I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times

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"I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times.

Morning Walk -- April 15, 1976, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: [break] And this night I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times. That I have explained, this evening, this last night.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Chanting in the temple increases the?

Prabhupāda: Value.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: The value.

Prabhupāda: Potency, thousand times. Otherwise, why they are going to the Vṛndāvana? (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.

Dr. Patel: Sir, what is the difference between mānasī chanting and chanting...

Prabhupāda: No, mānasī chanting, that is smaraṇa. That is another thing. But chanting means the tongue must work. That is real chanting.

Dr. Patel: But if only tongue works and the mind does not work, it has no value.

Prabhupāda: So mind will... You chant loudly, "Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa"; the mind will come.

Dr. Patel: This mind, buddhi, and the jīva in it, all the three must carry on...

Prabhupāda: Yes. Then it is real chanting.

Dr. Patel: ...with the chanting.

Prabhupāda: You have to practice. You have to practice. Not all of a sudden these three things can be combined so you can become.... It requires practice. Jaya. Abhyāsa-yoga-yuktena cetasā nānya-gāminā (BG 8.8). You have to practice. Your mind cannot go outside. Then it will be... You have to become the master of your mind. You cannot be dictated by the mind. Then you are victim. There is a verse that "The mind is friend, and mind is enemy. One who can dictate the mind, his mind is friend. And one who is dictated by the mind, his mind is enemy." So we have to learn how to dictate, control the mind. And that is yoga system. Yoga indriya-saṁyama.

Dr. Patel: Sir, greatest yoga...

Prabhupāda: Greatest yoga is devotee.

Dr. Patel: ...to join your mind with God, with Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. If one's mind is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa, then he is the greatest, biggest yogi.

yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
mad-gatenāntarātmanā
śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
(BG 6.47)

That is first-class yoga. (break) ...means keep them always engaged in Kṛṣṇa's activities, mind. That is wanted.

Page Title:I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas
Created:07 of Apr, 2012
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1