Inattentive Chanting
Inattention is a serious problem in chanting. As the nondevotee does not understand the value of human life or the urgency to be Krishna conscious, so a devotee sometimes does not fully understand the urgency and necessity of calling on the holy name. Then despite his theoretical acceptance of the principle of chanting Hare Krishna, he stubbornly deliberates on other things while uttering the holy name. Inattention then explains why, when a devotee chants, tears do not come to his eyes, his voice does not choke up with the utterance of the holy name, and his hairs do not stand on end, and why he does not feel the world is all vacant without Krishna.