Could you just count numbers and think about God and that would work just as well? Are the names important? Could you just count - one, two, three, four - and that would work just as well?

Expressions researched:
"Are the names important" |"Could you just count numbers and think about God and that would work just as well" |"Could you just count—one, two, three, four—and that would work just as well"

General Lectures

Well, that is not possible, of course, but as soon as stop counting, you can chant. (laughter) That's not difficult. Yes?

Lecture at Harvard University -- Boston, December 24, 1969:

Student (3): I was wondering how important the choice of words are to the chanting. And if, perhaps, if you just count to ten in your mind or out loud, I thought it might work just as well.

Satsvarūpa: "Could you just count numbers and think about God and that would work just as well? Are the names important?"

Prabhupāda: Count words?

Satsvarūpa: Could you just count—one, two, three, four—and that would work just as well.

Prabhupāda: Well, that is not possible, of course, but as soon as stop counting, you can chant. (laughter) That's not difficult. Yes?