Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura recommends that in Harinām Cintāmani, you should dominate that you can try various ways and be inventive. Another very realistic way to become focused is to remember Queen Kuntī's admonition that if you're puffed up, feeling that you have something, then you won't take shelter of The Holy Name. And the best way to concentrate, of course, is to have love. Then, you automatically have that sense of thinking of the person and saying his name. But if you also feel helpless, then there's a sense of crying out that is very natural for us because we're in a precarious situation.

So, Queen Kuntī advises us to remember that we are 'akiñcana.' We don't have anything, meaning that whatever we think we do have is a facade. It can't really help us. It's just borrowed plumes, as Prabhupāda says. So, if we can have that sense that I need help and there's only one person who can really help me, and it's Kṛṣṇa, then I'll have that sense of helplessness where I can call out. That helps to concentrate the mind also.

(excerpt from the talk)

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