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Sangeetha Padmanabhan • February 6, 2003 


Sri Ramanujaya Namah:
I completely agree with what you say Sir. We have to make "Nama Japa" with a clear conscious. Counting the Namas might cause a distraction and an intervention of a new element in thought while mentioning God's name. There should be no intervention while performing Nama Japa and hence we should not count and our inner mind should always be reciting God's name all the time. I do this all the time. Outwardly, I answer to people, do my work, and read while my inner mind always recites God's Name all the time. This is a process which i cultivated some years back and it gives us a lot of peace when we do so. This is just my view and may not be correct.
Please forgive me if my views are wrong.
Om Namo narayanaya Namah:
Sangeetha Jagan
 Sukumar  wrote:Dear Sri Sivanandam,

Welcome!

The normal practice, as far as I know, for Nama japa is actually done 11 
times, 33 times and so on. But in a real union with God (Yoga) what I 
feel and do is not counting the namas. I think nothing should come in 
between us (atman) and namas of Lord. We should be so passionate that we 
should not keep anything obstructive or slightly misleading when we do nama 
japa. Mind is the one which is advantageous and disadvantageous in this 
aspect and therefore I will not count nama japa though earlier I used to 
do.

It is just the degree/amount of bhakti is what is required ultimately. 
Pardon me if I am wrong.

regards
sukumar



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