snapping of fingers and clapping

[Guest guest]

Dear Jayapataka Maharaja

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

I have a question that is related to the question on whistling. Many of the

Bengalis and Bangladeshis when chanting gayatri upon completion clap their

hands. Similarly when performing an offering you can hear them snap their

fingers and follow it with a single clap. I have been lead to believe that

these activities where also inviting to ghosts, if so then why do these

devotees to this activity? Are these tantric practices?

 

Similarly they will rap there gayatri thread around their thumb while

performing acamana, where does this practice come from and what is its

purpose? I have always seen it as muchi.

Ys,

Rohita dasa