Real kirtana

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Actual krsna-kirtana is that kirtana by which Krsna is pleased. The show of

performing kirtana for one’s own pleasure or the pleasure of others is not

krsna-kirtana but maya-kirtana. As actions are judged by their results, so

one can judge whether one is chanting the holy name by the results. If while

chanting Hari’s name one’s propensity or attachment for material life

increases, one can know that Hari is not the object of one’s chanting.

Hari-nama-sankirtana should destroy attachment for material life, not

increase it. While chanting one will realize the insignificance and

temporality of material life, and will no longer relish it. Then all one’s

anarthas will be destroyed, one’s heart will be purified and become steady,

one’s material restlessness and misery will be destroyed, and one will

attain love of God.

 

(Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Thakura's Amrta Vani)