Quotes on Japa by great Vaisnava Acharyas: 90% of our advancement is dependent on chanting. Your japa beads are your ticket back to Godhead. - Srila Prabhupada ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This temporary life is full of miseries. Take shelter of the holy name as your only business. - Bhaktivinoda Thakur ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If one chants the holy names of the lord, even in helpless condition or without desiring to do so, all the reactions of his sinful life departs, just as when lion roars, all the small animals flee in fear. - Bhaktivinoda Thakur - ****************************************************************************** Even if one is illiterate (and thus cannot read Bhagavad gita and Srimad Bhagavatam) he can still perfect his life simply by chanting the maha mantra - Krsna Consciousness: The Matchless Gift ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One should chant incessantly, to avoid pride.- Sri Caitanya caritamrta Madhya lila 7.140−41, 146−47 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone begins his devotional life from the neophyte stage, but if one properly finishes chanting the prescribed number of rounds of hari-nama, he is elevated step by step to the highest platform, uttama-adhikari. - Nectar of Instruction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Of all the regulative principles, the spiritual masters order to chant at least sixteen rounds is most essential. - Sri Caitanya-caritamrta ************************************************************************************* Any person who is chanting the holy names of Krishna in course of time feels transcendental pleasure and very quickly becomes purified of all material contamination. - Srila Prabhupada Japa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simply by properly doing our japa daily, we can be freed from the reactions to all sinful activities. - Srila Prabhupada ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We cannot become fully Krishna conscious without chanting good quality rounds daily. Chanting is the most powerful way to become Krishna conscious. - Srila Prabhupada ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minimum 16 rounds have to be chanted. Constant chanting should be our goal. -Srila Prabhupada *********************************************************************************** “There is no such requirement that japa should be done silently and chanting should be done differently. Loudly or silently, everything is all right. There is no such restriction. Only thing is that we should chant very attentively, hearing the vibration very distinctly.” - Srila Prabhupada
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