{"id":12959,"date":"2014-06-25T08:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:37:25","slug":"japa-affirmations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12959","title":{"rendered":"Japa Affirmations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iskconeducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/533296_10150796774331817_175539557_n.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>By Mahatma das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I happily and enthusiastically welcome the holy names every japa session.<br \/>\nI easily chant my prescribed number of rounds with focus and attention.<br \/>\nWhen I chant, I chant.<br \/>\nI get to chant, I want to chant, and I love to chant.<br \/>\nI treat the maha-mantra as Radha and Krsna, fully present in sound.<br \/>\nI receive and feel Krsna&#8217;s presence, mercy and love in His holy names.<br \/>\nI chant in full awareness that the holy name is my greatest treasure.<br \/>\nI chant to please Radha and Krsna, not to gain anything material.<br \/>\nI am out of my mind and in my heart, fully present to the holy names as I chant my rounds.<br \/>\nI fully honour my sacred relationship with the holy names during japa.<br \/>\nI chant to be accepted by Krsna, and to repair my broken relationship with Him.<br \/>\nI chant from my heart, feelingly praying to come closer to Krsna.<br \/>\nI meditate on the meaning of the names as I chant.<br \/>\nI turn off my world and turn on Krsna\u2019s world when I chant my rounds.<br \/>\nI chant with no other motive than to render pure devotional service.<br \/>\nMy beads are my connection with Krsna and my ticket back to Godhead.<br \/>\nI am totally dependent on guru and Krsna to chant quality japa.<br \/>\nI organize my life to make japa the most important activity of my day.<br \/>\nI relish chanting the holy names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iskconeducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/533296_10150796774331817_175539557_n.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"600\" \/><img src= \"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads4\/2014-06-25_10-04-09.jpg\"\/><strong>By Mahatma das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I happily and enthusiastically welcome the holy names every japa session. I easily chant my prescribed number of rounds with focus and attention. When I chant, I chant. I get to chant, I want to chant, and I love to chant. I treat the maha-mantra as Radha and Krsna, fully present in sound. I receive and feel Krsna&#8217;s presence, mercy and love in His holy names. I chant in full awareness that the holy name is my greatest treasure. <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-mahatma-das"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13532,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12959\/revisions\/13532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}