Is it offensive to have thoughts of wanting to finish them quickly?
Some of us may feel that they have more important things to do in life than chanting the Maha Mantra so while chanting our mind goes to those things. But actually there is nothing more important in life than chanting the Holy name of Krishna.
It’s not nice to go to visit an important person and look at the clock hoping that the time goes by as fast as possible to leave. But Krishna is very merciful and appreciates the effort you are making to chant Hare Krishna and will overlook your lack of taste of His names.
We are at the level of sadhana, which means practice. We are not at the level of spontaneous love. We are not even at the level of love.
Sometimes we feel some pleasure in chanting Hare Krishna but most of the time we do it only because we know that it’s good for us. We have heard so from the spiritual master and we make an effort to do it everyday.
Just like going to a gym to improve our body health. Not always do we like to lift weights and things like that but we force ouselves to do it because we want to feel better.
So while it is important that we endeavor to chant Hare Krishna listening to the names contained in the Mantra etc., we should not feel discouraged or offensive if we do not feel enough pleasure to not think of material engagements.
But this is our present level. Krishna is in our heart. He knows and he’ll send us ways to help.
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