Why aren’t we chanting in a helpless mood? Because we are clinging to
material attachments. The last offense in chanting is to maintain
material attachments (ahaà mameti) even after understanding the
chanting and hearing so many instructions on spiritual life. It is
engaging in spiritual life with our anchor out. That wedding party was
rowing all night, but because they still had the anchor out, they did not
go anywhere. The anchor is attachment to sense gratification. Srila Prabhupada
said, “You can chant and chant for hundreds of years and
not get the result, if you chant with the anchor out.” So much work is
done without result, because they are trying to prosecute spiritual duties
while maintaining their sense gratification. We should be introspective,
take apart these anarthas and rectify our situation to have an open road
in our chanting of Hare Kåñëa—so we can go back to Godhead very
quickly. Nothing else is necessary in this age but to be a chanter of Hare
Krishna.
Inattention is a serious problem in chanting. As the nondevotee does
not understand the value of human life or the urgency to be Krishna
conscious, so a devotee sometimes does not fully understand the urgency
and necessity of calling on the holy name. Then despite his theoretical
acceptance of the principle of chanting Hare Kåñëa, he stubbornly
deliberates on other things while uttering the holy name. Inattention
then explains why, when a devotee chants, tears do not come to his eyes,
his voice does not choke up with the utterance of the holy name, and his
hairs do not stand on end, and why he does not feel the world is all
vacant without Krishna
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