Don't wait for the day you finally fall silent and go inward, leaving sound to beginners. Gurudev asks: when Krishna disappeared from the Rasa-lila and the gopis were left in separation, did they sit down in meditation? They sang. The Name comes out of the heart in two ways — viraha-vilapa, the weeping of burning separation, or ananda-sitkara, the gasp of inexpressible joy — and both of them come aloud. Even Haridas Thakur spoke his first rounds loudly. Muteness on the round usually means the heart is still asleep.