Why does the Gita 8.13 recommend the chanting of om and not Hare Krishna?

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thank you, Hare Krishna and so he didn’t say that one should chant Hare Krishna so is chanting equivalent to chanting Hare Krishna answer the Bhagavad Gita here is talking about the process of Krishna it is not talking about the soul and in the process of Krishna Yoga the thinker doesn’t have a clear understanding of the Absolute Truth and that’s why at the level of understanding of the Absolute Truth that the thinker has, chanting of Om is recommended at that time because Om itself doesn’t necessarily require or connote or connote to imply require or imply any clear understanding of the Absolute Truth so if somebody wants to practice Ashtami Yoga then chanting Om is actually a part of the sadhana and if we see the flow of those Gita verses, Krishna has told earlier what all one has to do Sarodara, Sanyanya, Norvini they choose so one should withdraw all the senses and focus the life air in the top of the head he says that for those who want to attain the Brahman they have to chant Brahmacharya they have to study the Vedas and then chant Om so it’s a full sadhana that is being talked about and one cannot just chant Om alone, it has to be a full sadhana so that sadhana also involves Krishna in the 8th chapter elaborating what is being talked about in 6th chapter so Krishna in 6th chapter 6.10 and 11 so as a part of Krishna Yoga sadhana chanting Om is a integral part and the important part is not chanting Om but remembering Krishna that means what Krishna is telling over here is that even if one does all these things one goes to Ganga, one practices Brahmacharya one shuts out all the senses one chants Om also even after that one has to remember him otherwise one will not get Paramahamsa and then as an alternative this whole process Krishna does in 8.14 that if one just directly remembers him if one says that one just fixes the mind on him and serves him then such a person will attain him easily that means if you look at the flow there is a clear contrast between the difficulty that is there in attaining the absolute truth by Krishna Krishna Yoga which involves chanting of Om and the process of unenviability so now in general Bhagavad Gita is focusing primarily on establishing which is the best sadhana it doesn’t go into the technical details of any sadhana so even Yog Sadhana also by Papanjaleya Sutra much more details about how yoga is to be practiced the question for Arjuna is not how to practice a particular yoga it is which yoga to practice Krishna Arjuna didn’t give much details about how to practice Karma Yoga or Jnana Yoga or Ashtanga Yoga he didn’t give much details about how to practice Bhakti Yoga and that’s why he clearly mentions that for example the chapter says Jnana and 14 verses so he talks about he talks about Kirtana but Krishna doesn’t go into details about any sadhana and that’s why one of the limbs of Bhakti which is Kriyana Krishna doesn’t go into the details of that also and this way he keeps things focused on the objective that is being under discussion that is to establish the right sadhana that is Bhakti Yoga so that’s why if you want to follow the Yog Sadhana or Jnana Yoga but you want to follow Bhakti Sadhana then one should chant the Hare Krishna Manjula because that is the Yugadharma for this age and that Yugadharma is talked about in other scriptures which give us further details about it for example it is talked about in there are several references in Hare Krishna Manjula Hare Krishna Manjula but along with that it is in the words of Bhagwan Narayana and Navadiya Purana and other places so in the Bhagavad Gita we learn which process to follow and once we understand then how to follow Bhakti we learn from other scriptures