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  Japa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japa is a spiritual discipline involving the meditative repetition of a mantra or name of God.
Japa is commonly performed whilst sitting in a yogic meditation posture (said to improve concentration) but this is not always the case in all traditions.
In most forms of japa, the repetitions are counted using a string of beads known as a japa mala.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japa   (316 words)

  
 Japa
Japa Yoga is accepted as a distinct Path of Yoga (mode of approach to Divinity) by itself and can lift the practitioner to Divine Consciousness.
Japa being an accepted mode of approach to Divinity in all religions, it is the most commonly practised sadhana and is followed universally.
While you are doing the japa of any mantra, think that you are really praying to your Ishta-Devata (chosen Deity) that He is listening to you, that He is looking at you with merciful and graceful eyes.
sivanandaonline.org /graphics/sadhana/meditation/japa.html   (1269 words)

  
 Japa Yoga
Japa is the rod in the hand of the blind Sadhakas (aspirants) to plod on the road to Realization.
When you repeat the Mantra, have the feeling or mental attitude that the Lord is seated in your heart, that purity or Sattva is flowing from the Lord into your mind, that the Mantra is purifying your heart, destroying desires, cravings and evil thoughts.
Continue the current of Japa mentally at all times, whatever be the activity in which you are engaged.
www.sivanandadlshq.org /teachings/japayoga.htm   (1911 words)

  
 Japa
He frequently read it out when visitors asked him about the nature and usefulness of Japa and from the number of times he spoke of it with approval it is reasonable to assume that he fully endorsed its contents.
The object of japa or dhyana is the exclusion of several thoughts and confining oneself to one single thought.
Japa means clinging to one thought to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
www.hinduism.co.za /japa.htm   (11160 words)

  
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