How is spiritual sound different from material sound?
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ok what appears on the inner screen it could come either from the physical world it could just come from imagination or it could come we could say from the spiritual manifesting in the material or in the physical or spiritual manifesting in the mental so for most of the stimuli in the world which we perceive most sounds they are just physical sounds coming from the physical realm most stimuli they are just physical or at the most they are mental but the names of Krishna are directly transcendental the transcendence is manifesting at the physical level and through that it is taking us to the spiritual level so we could say someone chanting is chanting meant to be inside out or outside in inside out means we feel devotional and we call out to Krishna so the devotion inside is expressed outside through chanting that will be inside out chanting or outside in chanting means through the physical act of chanting gradually the connection with Krishna is established and then we start experiencing spiritual emotional relationship with Krishna even now we do experience some spiritual connection it may not be necessarily that the soul is being awakened but even if the soul perceives Krishna on the inner screen that is the mind the mind is basically yeah so like you have your house and somebody who comes at the gate you don’t have to physically go and see over there you have a mirror over here you can see over there like the outer world is projected onto our inner screen that is the mind and the soul is the inner seer yeah soul is seeing the mind exactly it’s a screen which can act in various ways so yeah most of the time our chanting is meant to be outside of course sometimes we are just outside outside there is no inside only there is a physical utterance and it doesn’t even register inside which is just the way we are conditioned but because it is connected with eternal spiritual reality that is why there is the possibility or the potential of spiritual awakening through this sound we could conceivably say that just repeating any other sound also can bring some calmness it’s possible nowadays people talk about affirmations just affirm everything is alright everything is alright and thinking like that also can help but it can help to the extent that it may bring us to goodness this has gone wrong this has gone wrong things are ok things are ok don’t worry calm down sometimes it may help affirmations help if they can remind us of a reality that we already accept to be true God is in control he will take care of things calm down so if I have faith in God the affirmation will help but if the affirmation is something which I just don’t believe then the affirmation is actually psychologically damaging because I don’t accept it and I am trying to repeat to myself so suppose somebody is say somebody thinks that they don’t look very good they look they are fat or they are whatever they are and I say no I am very attractive now that is something which that kind of affirmation can be damaging but affirmation way of something which we accept as true but circumstantially we tend to forget that so then repeating that can also help God is in charge he will take care of things so even if you have shloka recitation sometimes comes as if you become conscious of it you will pass over all obstacles by my grace of course shloka also has spiritual power because they are connected with Krishna and coming from Krishna but I am just giving that as an example if there is an affirmation that we already accept as true then affirming it again and again can calm us but it is not really connected with spiritual reality so it is direct spiritual reality that manifests through the holy name it is a good thing on that context