While chanting can we hear kirtan?
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while chanting can we hear kirtan? see there is a there is the concept that there is a point of concentration and there is a circle of concentration point of concentration is the sound of the holy name that is what we want to focus on but sometimes in our conditional stage not sometimes, most of the times focus on the sound is quite difficult it’s continuously so we can try to have some stimulus which is related with the holy name, say for example we might have the Hare Krishna mantra written down we can move along that we can have a picture of the deities we can look at it, this is the lord I am trying to call out we can have some words of the glories of the holy name we can have maybe a picture of our taking initiation I have made a vow to chant this, I must do this well or we may have listen to prophets of course listen to prophets so all these are basically like ideally speaking we are meant to hear our own holy name chanting but we can have something around so that the mind instead of letting it wander everywhere in the world we can give it some scope to wander which is connected with Krishna and that helps us to bring it back so now I would say all these other stimuli they are they are connected with Krishna and they bring us to Krishna now kirtan, I really don’t know the effect of it because kirtan what happens is there is music involved in it there is tune involved in it and what happens it may attract us in a different way and we may not focus on the holy name so I wouldn’t say that it we should not but we will have to ourselves evaluate is it aiding me in focusing on the holy name because the primary focus has to be on the chanting so if it is not aiding me then it is better maybe if we find kirtan very helpful then maybe we can chant a few rounds and then just take a pause and hear kirtans for a few minutes and then again start chanting ok so we stop it with chanting yeah because if kirtan is what it helps our mind connect with Krishna then we can take maybe after 4 rounds take a little break, maybe 2-3 minutes we hear the kirtan it calms our mind down and again we can start chanting but during chanting I have not seen anyone doing that I feel it will be although we are conscious of Krishna we won’t be conscious of Krishna as the holy name at that time that will be a slight problem yeah