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Question: Benefit from Chanting Japa on a Clicker?

Hare Krishna 

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I want to know that, as we saw the devotees are chanting with clicker machine, what profit they will get by chanting with clicker?

Your servant,

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Answer: Prabhupada Did Not Ask Us To Chant 1,728 Clicks Thank you very much for your sincere inquiry to get a clear understanding of how we are supposed to properly practice Krishna consciousness.  Because Krishna's name is absolute any chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is good. Whether one counts his mantras on japa beads or a clicker or does not count them at all, it is all beneficial. However, since Srila Prabhupada has ordered us to chant Hare Krishna round the beads, to fulfill our daily vow of chanting at least sixteen rounds, this has to be done on japa beads, not on a clicker. Any mantras chanted on a clicker do not count towards fulfilling our vow to chant at least sixteen rounds daily. Sixteen rounds is sixteen times 108 repetitions of the Hare Krishna mantra, which comes to 1,728 repetitions of the Hare Krishna mantra. Therefore some misinformed devotees have speculated a conclusion that as an alternative to chanting on beads they can instead do 1,728 clicks on a clicker to fulfill their daily sixteen rounds vow. But this is not true. Round means around the beads. You can't go around a clicker, but you can go around a string of japa beads. Not only did Srila Prabhupada instruct us to chant round the beads. He also handed us japa beads at the time of initiation. There is no instance of his handing a clicker to someone at the time of initiation. We vowed to Srila Prabhupada to chant at least sixteen rounds daily, not 1,728 clicks. So in accordance with our vows to the spiritual master we must chant our daily sixteen rounds on japa beads, not on a clicker. Srila Prabhupada Taught Us to Chant on Japa Beads

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