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eads of the mala in order to remember her. Your heart
automatically remembers. Similarly, once we have that
deep love for God, we don’t need to continue doing japa
to bring us into contact with Him. We will be in contact all
the time. Our lives will become our japa.
3) Should one chant shlokas during prayer? Does
the mantra given by a Guru have any significance?
If so, why?
There are so many different shlokas and prayers; it is
impossible for me to say – in a general sense – which ones
we should practice. This is a reason we have the tradition
of gurus. After much thought and meditation, the Guru
will tell the disciple which mantra to recite. However, until
you have a sadguru, you can take any name of God,
whatever form attracts you most. All of His names are holy;
all of the mantras praising Him bring you to His feet.
4) Should prayer include namsmarana
(remembering the name of God), namlekhana
(writing the name of God) or chanting His name
on beads?
All of these are useful. They bring us out of glamour
consciousness and into God consciousness. They focus our
mind on something divine. However, they must be done
in the right spirit. It is not enough to spend your days
writing God’s name in a notebook. His name must be on
our lips, in our hearts, and in our thoughts, not only in our
notebooks. The ultimate goal, as it says so beautifully in
one of our prayers, is to “have His name on our lips and
have His work in our hands.” That is the goal. If we spend
our days writing His name, or if our hands only have malas
in them, then what are we doing for the world? Then what
is the fruit of this sadhana?
Yes, a mantra given by a sadguru has special power, special
5) Should one recite Gita, Vachanamrut, Hanuman
significance. A guru transmits not only the words of a
Chalisa regularly each day? If so, how many times
mantra, but the tradition and the sadhana of so many
per day?
enlightened ones. He is giving you not only his wisdom
Yes, it is important to recite our scriptures and important
and tapasya but also the wisdom and tapasya of his
prayers like the Hanuman Chalisa and other shlokas. We
sadguru and his guru’s guru. So, a mantra from a guru
must recite these as much as possible, so that they become
carries with it the guru’s light, the guru’s understanding
deeply ingrained into our beings. We must recite them so
and the guru’s love.
much that we live and breathe them, so that they become
as much a part of our consciousness as the names of our
However, I always say that what matters is your faith, your
family, as the job we do at work, as the things that normally
shraddha. That is your real mantra. The words themselves
are not nearly as significant as the heart that recites them.
fill our minds.
So, when we recite our complex Sanskrit slokas, let us make
However, the key is not in how many times we recite them,
sure we are doing so out of shraddha and piety rather
or in how many verses we recite, etc. The key to salvation
than out of ritual and habit.
is in how much we live them. In the Gita, Lord Krishna
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