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by Ravinder Sihra
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What is this click…click… click business going on?
Anyone who takes chanting seriously will use Tulsi Beads for chanting. It is common sense that chanting on Tulsi beads is far superior to chanting on a mechanical clicker. Tulsi is very dear to Lord Sri Krishna but a clicker is not. You can all laugh now. Chanting on Tulsi beads is more purifying. Just the mere sight of Tulsi beads is purifying, let alone coming in contact with Tulsi beads and just thinking how fortunate you are to come in contact with Tulsi beads in the first place.
Who wants to see a whole lot of devotees going click...click…click? Congregational members like to see devotees properly dressed up and with their bead bags, which is one of the most important parts of them. So what is this click...click...click business going on?
The Christians who chant use the rosary beads. The Muslims who chant use beads. The Sikhs who chant use beads, so why do some Hare Krishna devotees want to use mechanical clickers? Are they trying to be more advanced?
I believe that only in extreme cases should clickers be used, where a devotee has a genuine excuse that Tulsi beads cannot be used. So do not try to take the easy way out, but take your chanting seriously by chanting on Tulsi beads.
Sorry, I have no time to write any more, as I have a whole lot of rounds to chant, some from my previous lives as well. That is why I am still here.
Hari Bol
Ravi
© CHAKRA 10 February 2002
