| "This is a better meditation. Meditation . . . One is performing meditation silently. But if we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, it is forced meditation. He has to meditate. So it is better meditation. (kīrtana in background) Just like they're chanting; I am engaged in different business. Still, I am hearing. This is the . . . And one is silently meditating, he's getting . . . maybe he's getting the benefit, but here anyone who is hearing, getting benefit. Therefore chanting is better than . . . Yes. And it is recommended by Haridāsa Ṭhākura that . . . This is discussed in Caitanya-caritāmṛta, that "Chanting, even the trees, even the insects and the animals, they will hear and they get the benefit." So it is better meditation. Even the trees, plants, animals, birds, beasts, they can take benefit. And if it is done by pure Vaiṣṇava, then they get the full benefit."
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