Murmuring

What does the Hindu understand of speech, of the significance of speech?, W. wonders. Of course, you don't have to understand the meaning of the Vedic mantras, haven't I told him that? It's enough just to hear them, an indecipherable murmuring, which is why they pipe them over loudspeakers in Indian hotels. It's good luck just to be in their presence, W. says. But this means the Hindu is never addressed, he says.