Chanting Quotes
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Actually, it doesn't matter – Krishna or Christ – the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age.
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More Chanting Quotes
The Sama Veda focuses on the musical chanting patterns of the [[w:Mantra|Mantras and the subtle form of Yajna by defining the latter as the process of mental oblation on the surface of internal emotions through the cosmic radiation of the omnipresent subtle energy of sound .
— in p.4 (The Integrated Science of Yagna)
Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.
john keble— John Keble, The Nightingale.
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists."
ali khamenei— March 21, 2006 speech
Hark, below, the many-voiced earth,The chanting of the old religious trees,Rustle of far-off waters, woven soundsOf small and multitudinous lives awake,Peopling the grasses and the pools with joy,Uttering their meaning to the mystic night!
william vaughn moody— The Fire-Bringer (1904), Act ii.
Actually, it doesn't matter – Krishna or Christ – the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age.
— Bhaktivedanta Vedabase. Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 2003.
Now the pitch, and it's lined foul into the seats, down the third base line, 1 ball, 1 strike, and I'll tell you what's going on. The crowd is chanting "U-S-A!" and the reason for that is that there are reports circulating, I'm not sure if they yet been confirmed by the White House, that Osama bin Laden is dead. How that's happened, we don't know, but this crowd now knows it.
howie rose— Announcing the death of Osama bin Laden. Radio voices paint the picture. MLB.com. Major League Baseball (May 1, 2011). Retrieved on May 4, 2011.
There's no way people can stand outside a museum and chant "Edie and Andy." But they were out there, chanting and screaming. They were that relevant.
edie sedgwick— Ondine, describing the scene at the Philadelphia art gallery, as quoted in Edie : American Girl (1982) by Jean Stein and George Plimpton
"Can we drill your brains?"(responding to attendants who interrupted her speech by chanting "Drill here! Drill now!")
nancy pelosi— "Perspectives". Newsweek. September 8, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-11-22.
[In Hinduism] numerous devotional practices exist. Besides chanting God ’s name with faith and satsang , the classical nine kinds of devotion listed in the Ramacharitamanas include adoration of God’s legends.
— Mukul Goel, in Devotional Hinduism: Creating Impressions for God (20 April 2008), p.22
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.
Phineas fletcher— Purple Island, Canto I.
One achieves bhakti [love of God] by hearing and chanting about the Supreme Lord's special qualities, even while engaged in the ordinary activities of life in this world.
Srimad Bhagavatam— Back to Godhead: The Magazine of the Hare Krishna Movement, Volumes 31-32, p. 63
Om chanting and meditation is all about getting connected with our true nature.
— Amit Ray, in “OM Chanting and Meditation”, p.16
Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!
christopher hitchens— Letter to a Young Contrarian (2001).
There are many ways Hindus offer devotion through chanting and song .
— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, in Saivite Hindu Religion Book Two, p.146
chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.
patañjali— In "Yoga Sutras Study Courses and Workshops".
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists."
— March 21, 2006 speech (Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)
