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To perform the first type of meditation, one needs only a set of japa beads. These may be purchased from …

If you decide to make your japa beads, follow these simple instructions:

1) Buy 109 large round beads (at least as big as a dime), and some strong, thick nylon thread.

2) Tie a knot about six inches from the end of a long piece of the thread and then string …

3) After stringing 108 beads, pull the two ends of thread through one large master bead.

4) This bead is called the Kṛṣṇa bead. Tie a knot next to it and cut off the excess thread. …

To meditate with the beads, hold them in your right hand. Gently roll the first bead between your thumb and …

You may want to chant japa indoors, but you can chant just as comfortably walking along the beach or hiking …

One may chant japa at any time, but the Vedic literatures note that certain hours of the day are most …

While japa is a form of meditation involving you, your beads, and the Supreme Lord, kīrtana, on the other hand, …

One may hold a kīrtana at home with family or friends, with one person leading the chanting and the others …

The sounds of the material world are boring, hackneyed, and monotonous, but chanting is an ever-increasingly refreshing experience. You can …

Enhancing Your Chanting

Although one receives immense benefit however and whenever one may chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, the great spiritual masters who are authorities …

The more we chant, the more easily we will be able to follow the yogic principles listed below, for as …

1) Just by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, one will automatically want to follow the four regulative principles of spiritual …

a) No eating of meat, fish, or eggs: to increase compassion, mercy, and nonviolence (ahiṁsā).

b) No intoxicants: to achieve mental and physical clarity and focus, and to develop the determination for spiritual practice.

c) No gambling: to increase truthfulness and to decrease anxiety, greed, envy, and anger.

d) No illicit sex (sex outside of marriage or not meant for the procreation of God conscious children): to decrease …