Author Archives: Rasa Rasika

Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world…simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:rasa108 ::_::{.at.}::_:: gmail dot comysRasa Rasika dasa

We must stay strong in our determination to carry on with good quality sadhana….chanting is our life and soul.

Mahatma dasa takes us through many good techniques for improving the quality of our Japa.Email subscribers please click the large blue link above to see the video.

“Nama Prabhu is a person with all the qualities of Krishna just as good as His form, but when you chant mechanically it’s like you’re chanting the puppet rather than the person. The body is tired and can’t give it’s energy in devotion as it would like …

“The chanting of the holy name is so powerful that it gradually establishes its supremacy above everything in the world.”Srila Prabhupada – Teachings Of Lord Caitanya 18

Try to concentrate so much that you forget everything around you and you forget about what is going on in your life – no thoughts enter your mind and you are totally absorbed in the sound of Krsna’s names.This is the zone and it’s a wonderful place to …

Try to concentrate so much that you forget everything around you and you forget about what is going on in your life – no thoughts enter your mind and you are totally absorbed in the sound of Krsna’s names.This is the zone and it’s a wonderful place to …

Mahatma dasa continues to talk about the importance of chanting with feeling. Email subscribers please click on the big blue link above to see the video.

Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world…simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:rasa108 ::_::{.at.}::_:: gmail dot comysRasa Rasika dasa

“The simple process to become purified. And that simple process is this chanting. Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, this name “Kṛṣṇa” is reminding me. I must hear and I must chant with the tongue. Then you keep yourself always in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.”

Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.18 Lecture
July 1 1975 – Denver

“While the body is fit therefore, why should we not chant the holy name of the Lord loudly and distinctly? If one does so, it is quite possible that even at the time of death he will be properly able to chant the holy name of the Lord with love and fai…

“Chanting has become such an important part of my life…..I’m happy to be chanting and to be alive in the holy names. There is nothing so refreshing and life-giving as chanting the maha-mantra.”

From Bhajan Kutir #87
by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

“It was a pleasure to break out of the slump and hear the Holy names chirping like birds in my last set of four when I came alive again.”From Bhajan Kutir #16

I received another message from one of our group subscribers today:Association will bring back the mood that I am chanting because I really want to serve Radha and Krishna – that desire should be higher than my any other material tendency to search for…

When you do chanting, you should be thinking of chanting. You should understand that our service during the chanting of the holy name is to completely engross our mind in the sound of the holy name. That is our service at that time.Radhanatha Swami

Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world…simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:rasa108 ::_::{.at.}::_:: gmail dot comysRasa Rasika dasa

I received a very nice realisation from a Japa Group Subscriber. I will share it with you here.Most often while we chant we hear other voices of our thoughts. Sometimes these other voices can become overpowering and the voice of chanting can become lik…

Srila Prabhupada has commented many times that we simply need to hear the Maha mantra properly with full concentration and attention, so that we can keep our minds fixed on the vibration of the Holy names:”….Concentrate fully on the sound vibration o…

As Srila Prabhupada’s secretary and more than once in any case, I sat before Srila Prabhupada chanting my japa.
Sometimes we hear people, and myself, saying, “Hare Ram, Hare Ram, Ram Ram, Hare Hare”.
Srila Prabhupada would stop me, and more than once, said to me:

“Chant the entire mantra” and he would proceed to do so. “So it is, Ra-ma.”

Pusta Krsna dasa
Former secretary to Srila Prabhupada

Good chanting produces more good chanting and so it increases like this but it takes the initial effort from ourselves to achieve it. It’s our responsibility to take this step towards Krsna.

“The mood of chanting the holy name combines the actions of mind and heart-namely thinking and feeling. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised all devotees to be free from false ego, and to think oneself lower than a blade of grass. With feelings of deep subm…

“So to have a long term habit change – in other words we want to change our bad habit, once and for all, so that from this day forward we are always chanting with attention and never being distracted (or whatever behavior we want to change) and never s…

Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world…simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:rasa108 ::_::{.at.}::_:: gmail dot comysRasa Rasika dasa

Very interesting and short video with Mahatma dasa, explaining how we can overcome obstacles in Japa. Email subscribers please click the big blue link above to see the video.

Bhurijana prabhu gives an excellent Japa seminar digging deeply into the essence of japa chanting each day.Email subscribers please click the big blue link above to hear the audio.

Wonderful and deep realisations from devotees in British Columbia in Canada. Email subscribers please click the big blue link above to see the video.

“The qual­ity of my japa is ques­tion­able. It is not suddha-nama, or chant­ing with­out offenses. But I sin­cerely com­plete my quota. I put my heart into the syl­la­bles and the getting-done of the quota.”

From Viraha Bhavan #203
by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

Imagine you are driving a car and you have a passenger sitting next to you. The passenger is continually pointing things out and trying to draw your attention to them.
The passenger is like your mind, and driving the car is like chanting your rounds.
If you keep talking to someone and they are continuously ignoring you, eventually you are just going to be quiet.
That’s the best way to deal with the mind: just ignore it and keep your attention on “the road”, it will eventually shut up.

Hari Bol Prabhuji !I am a avid reader of Japa quote and wait in the morning for arrival of mail. The content is very useful and help us keep track of our quality of Japa .Hare KrishnaKishor VyasNashik ( India )

Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world…simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:rasa108 ::_::{.at.}::_:: gmail dot comysRasa Rasika dasa

“The name is as potent as Kṛṣṇa is. We have a tongue, and if we use this tongue to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, we shall immediately come directly in touch with Kṛṣṇa, because the name Kṛṣṇa and the person Kṛṣṇa are not different. We may think that Kṛṣṇa is far, far away, but in fact Kṛṣṇa is within us.”

From Teachings Of Queen Kunti
Let There Be Calamaties

Often I find myself struggling to think of new things to say about Japa that haven’t been said already – I try to use quotes from Srila Prabhupada or senior devotees and occasionally video and audio but still it can be a struggle.
Actually, the whole reason I started the Japa Group all those years ago was because of a quote I read where Srila Prabhupada was saying that we should write each day about our realisations in Krsna consciousness.
I don’t have many, but I have a few about Japa and one thing is for sure – we need to take Japa very seriously and make it the priority in our day over everything else.

Guest: She is also doing that japa. And while this mālā, doing mālā, and doing the japa, the mind doesn’t remain fixed in God. You know, it wanders about. So what is the way of fixing the mind?
Prabhupāda: To hear. “Hare Kṛṣṇa.” Chant and hear.

Morning Walk
Los Angeles December 21, 1973

“….Practically we see that as we sincerely try to improve our chanting for the pleasure of Krishna, Krishna reciprocates and we feel our greatest pleasure which is devotional service to the Lord.”Letter to SyamasundaraNovember 24, 1968

I happily and enthusiastically welcome the Holy names every Japa sessionI get to chant, I want to chant and I love to chantI easily chant my prescribed number of rounds with focus and attentionMy beads are my connection with Krsna and my ticket back to…

“You keep it up like a jockey on a winning horse. You feel happy and triumphant. You feel like you’re winning a prize. This is the result of decent morning chanting.”From Japa Transformationsby Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

Please share your realisations with other devotees from around the world…simply send me an introduction email and I will be happy to make you a member:rasa108 ::_::{.at.}::_:: gmail dot comysRasa Rasika dasa

“This temporary life is full of miseries. Take shelter of the holy name as your only business.”

Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura
Aruṇodaya-kīrtana, from Gītāvalī

Very enthusiastic presentation by Mahatma dasa, giving us some answers and secrets for advancing in chanting Hare Krsna. Email subscribers please click the large blue link above to see the video.

Bhurijana prabhu full Japa workshop from Melbourne Australia. Email subscribers please click the big blue link above to see the video.