Complete concentration is necessary. Otherwise your rounds are done, butthey aren't done well. You're just trying to get the job done, like afactory worker. You get the credit that "I chanted my rounds," but therewill be far more credit if you chant with the right quality. Attentivedoesn't mean only that you don't fall asleep or that you don't leave off a"Hare," but it means being attentive to how Krsna may reveal within yourheart more understanding of the holy name. But you have to concentrate.Anything that you want to do well, you have to think about it, and youhave to put other things out of your mind in order to do it. That's verybasic definition of concentration. Concentrated is only one thing, nothingdiluted, nothing impure-just the essence. So when you concentrate onanything, it's like that-one thing.The karmis concentrate so that they get the most out of sensegratification. Any worker has to concentrate to do something right. So ayogi, a bhakti-yogi, has to concentrate also with all his senses and hismind. We actually chant japa just a couple of hours, but it should be donelike that-with concentration. Everybody knows this, but we have to do it.It's an easy process. It's not a hard process, it's an easy process-youjust have to chant and hear. You don't have to sit in a certain place andcontrol your breath and give up food. But it's an easy process forsomebody who's not very austere-meaning the average soul in the Kali-yuga- but it's also the topmost process.
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