Question: I wish to know if chanting is a kind of meditation?

Sri Chinmoy: Chanting is not, strictly speaking, a form of meditation. It is an invocation. By using a mantra, we can invoke God to enter into our inner existence, our inmost self. In meditation we try in a broader way to enter into God's Infinity, Eternity and Immortality.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Prayer-world, mantra-world and japa-world, Agni Press, 1974
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