Putting End to Courtesy Japa / Beyond
* Chanting while talking to someone (you talk, and when they reply you chant).
* Chanting while reading (which could really work if you have two heads, one to read and one to chant).
* Chanting while listening to a CD or the radio (this is especially challenging while listening to the news or listening to rock and roll music).
* Chanting while shopping.
* Chanting while window shopping (this often happens on early morning japa walks).
* Chanting while you are dosing off (sometimes known as dive bomb japa).
* Chanting while site seeing or looking around at a million things (sometimes known as radar japa).
* Chanting while watching movies (Krsna Conscious movies are included in “courtesy japa”).
* Chanting a little, talking a little, chanting a little, talking a little (sometimes known as jibber japa).
* Chanting while …………………… (fill in your favorites).
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* Chanting while reading (which could really work if you have two heads, one to read and one to chant).
* Chanting while listening to a CD or the radio (this is especially challenging while listening to the news or listening to rock and roll music).
* Chanting while shopping.
* Chanting while window shopping (this often happens on early morning japa walks).
* Chanting while you are dosing off (sometimes known as dive bomb japa).
* Chanting while site seeing or looking around at a million things (sometimes known as radar japa).
* Chanting while watching movies (Krsna Conscious movies are included in “courtesy japa”).
* Chanting a little, talking a little, chanting a little, talking a little (sometimes known as jibber japa).
* Chanting while …………………… (fill in your favorites).
http://www.dandavats.com/?p=2639
Significance of the Number of Beads / Types
In Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) the Mala (beads) used for Japa (chanting) contains 108 beads.
A person breathes 21,600 times every day. If one does just 12.5 rounds of Malas of Japa of
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare;
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare
, he says the Holy Name 21,600 times and says one Holy Name every breath taken in a day.
If he does 12.5 Malas of Japa every day, that amounts to remembrance of God throughout the day. Malas may contain beads which form divisions of 108 also, so that the same calculation can be maintained.
The Meru (the bigger and central bead in the Mala) lets you know physicially that you have done your Japa 108 times. Every time you come to the Meru bead, you have gone one step further on the spiritual path and crossed over one obstacle. A portion of your ignorance is removed.
http://www.salagram.net/Japa1.htm
http://www.krishnaculture.com/category/PB.html
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