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Ours is the age of kirtan — chant the Name aloud
vācika · upāṁśu · mānasika japa
Ours is the age of kirtan — chant the Name aloud
vācika · upāṁśu · mānasika japa
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"The Yuga Dharma is Kirtan. … If you want to do your japa in complete silence, then you're millions of years too late, because that was in Satya Yuga. … Kali Yuga. … You can chant softly, but not in the mind, because that is not kirtan."
You want to chant the mantra in complete inner silence, mānasika-japa, with the mind alone? You're millions of years too late — that was the yoga-dharma of Satya-yuga. Now it's Kali-yuga, and the method is different: chant aloud. Let both work together — rasanā, the tongue, and mānasī, the mind. Silent japa in the mind alone is already smaraṇa, remembrance, not kīrtana. And the mission of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is precisely kīrtana, the Name spoken loud.
Let the Name sound on your tongue — let your own ear hear it too.
Source: Q&A: Prasadam, Chaturmasya and Japa · 2025-04-05
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