Traveling Raktak's Diary

Guru-Lila (part 4)

In some temples, either before or after the lecture, the devotees chant one round togecher, and believe me, this is quite purifying experience.  Some people may not have chanted at all throughout their lives, but in this way, they also get a chance to sit together with all the devotees/congregational members and get some first hand experience on chanting especially with the beads.  So here in this clip, which was made on 19th of March, 2016 at Navi Mumbai, you can see this thing and it is more special, because guruji His Holiness Hanumat Preshak Swami Maharaj is there, though he is not chanting with them, since he was chanting his evening Gaytri Mantra, silently, but he was listening, and another thing, you may also see my ugly face in this clip becuase there was a mirror (but you are lucky that you see it only for a few seconds, otherwise, you may have bad dreams in the night).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7tgeRroxvs

HpS - ASA -- We like that everyone chants one round together. We hear that Srila Prabhupada had the devotees do that in the first days of ISKCON, in front of the Deities, but we DO NOT like that it is done in unison. As far a we know this was a practice added without Prabhupada's consent, after he left. He had the devotees chanting at their own pace with individual concentration.