Japa
Illuminations 43.10 – JMC (10) – Bringing It Home
Japa Mini-Course Installments 10 – Bringing It Home What can you do to insure that you take advantage of these lessons as well as continue to improve your japa? Improving japa is an ongoing process. Utilizing the tools in this course (and the many other tools offered in The Japa Workshop) is meant to continue […]
Illuminations 43.9 – JMC (9) – Aligning Your Life with the Holy Names
Japa Mini-Course Installment 9 – Aligning Your Life with the Holy Names Everything You Do Affects You. Good japa does not exist in a vacuum. What you do in the day is reflected in your japa. A more Krishna conscious lifestyle naturally lends itself to better japa. So the more important japa is in your […]
Illuminations 43.4 – JMC (4) – How Physiology Affects the Mind
Japa Mini-Course Installment 4 – How Physiology Affects the Mind Sit Properly Several times Srila Prabhupada interrupted a lecture or a japa session to tell someone to “Sit properly.” Prabhupada writes: “First one must be able to sit properly, and then the mind and attention will become steady enough for practicing yoga.” How we sit, […]
Illuminations 43.3 – JMC(3) – Your Japa Blueprint
Japa Mini-Course Installment 3 – Your Japa Blueprint What’s Your Blueprint? We all have a japa blueprint. This blueprint manifests in the quality of our chanting, which tends be more or less the same every day. This works for us or against us, depending on the quality of the blueprint. Chanting good japa consistently is […]
Illuminations 43.1 – JMC (1) – Building Your foundation
Japa Mini-Course (JMC) Installment 1- Building Your Foundation There are ten installments in this japa course. I suggest that you focus on one to two installment per week, integrating what you have learned into your japa that week. At the end of each installment I ask you to write me the realizations you got by […]
Building Your foundation
Japa Mini-Course Installment 1- Building Your Foundation Dear Prabhus and Mataji’s, There are ten installments in this japa course. I suggest that you focus on one to two installment per week, integrating what you have learned into your japa that week. At the end of each installment I ask you to […]
Illuminations 22 – Courtesy Japa
This newsletter is about japa. What kind of japa? Japa that’s mindless, heartless and robotic. Japa that ends up being more of a ritual, a chore to get over with, rather than an act of loving devotion. You know what I am talking about. We’ve all been there, done that. And it’s time to move […]