A FEW THOUGTHS ON THE BLARING OF MUSIC FROM LOUDSPEAKER IN THE TEMPLE ”Yudhistra asks Bhishma about the practice of reciting Vedic texts in a murmur.” The reply by Bhishma is abridged thus by John D Smith in his translation of The
Mahabharata, “The
murmuring reciter should be disengaged; meditating on brahman, and by degrees ceasing even to meditate, he attains freedom from rebirth. In reply to question from Yudhistra, he
adds that those who
perform murmuring recitations without the necessary disengagement and discipline go to hell.” THE IDEA I find above is that those who EVEN make WHISPERING sounds in the name of chanting, or worship, without the necessary disengagement from the world, without their MIND RESPECTFULLY ON GOD, are merely accumulating sin and going to hell. THE WORDS ARE BY VYASA, THE AUTHOR OF THE GITA, THE MAHABHARATA, AND THE VEDAS, AND ATTRIBURED TO BHISHMA, THE GREAT SAGE.