Category: Japa

Creating a Sacred Place for a Sacred Relationship If you were studying for an important and difficult exam, and you had the choice of studying…

Be Here Now Doing one thing while thinking of something else is to not “be present.” It’s a symptom of the mode of passion and…

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…

I came across this lecture by Srila Prabhupada’s early disciple Yamuna Devi. It is so wonderful that I thought make it this month’s newsletter. (Plus,…

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…

In this issue we discuss one of the offences to the holy name: to maintain material attachments. Detachment follows bhakti. To maintain an attachment is…

What you think not only affects you, it affects those around you. It can even affect those not in your immediate presence. Your consciousness also affects…

If we want to chant good rounds, we need to live our lives in a way that supports and nourishes our chanting. Thus, to chant…

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…