Quotes on Japa

This temporary life is full of miseries. Take shelter of the holy name as your only business. – Bhaktivinoda Thakur

If one chants the holy names of the lord, even in helpless condition or without desiring to do so, all the reactions of his sinful life departs, just as when lion roars, all the small animals flee in fear.  – Bhaktivinoda Thakur

Even if one is illiterate (and thus cannot read Bhagavad gita and Srimad Bhagavatam) he can still perfect his life simply by chanting the maha mantra  – Krsna Consciousness: The Matchless Gift

Any person who is chanting the holy names of Krishna in course of time feels transcendental pleasure and very quickly becomes purified of all material contamination." – Srila Prabhupada

Simply by properly doing our japa daily, we can be freed from the reactions to all sinful activities. – Srila Prabhupada

One should chant incessantly, to avoid pride.– Sri Caitanya caritamrta Madhya lila 7.140−41, 146−47.

Srila Prabhupada stressed 4 rules in japa: early morning chanting, full concentration, distinct pronunciation, attentive hearing. -Mahanidhi Swami

We cannot become fully Krishna conscious without chanting good quality rounds daily. Chanting is the most powerful way to become Krishna conscious. – Srila Prabhupada

Japa does not mean a tongue exercise. It is only effective when we put our mind where the sound is, so that the sound can vibrate unpleasantness out of mind.–  Radhanath Swami

Our strength is in following the regulative principles and chanting 16 rounds japa. – Srila Prabhupada

Everyone begins his devotional life from the neophyte stage, but if one properly finishes chanting the prescribed number of rounds of hari-nama, he is elevated step by step to the highest platform, uttama-adhikari. – Nectar of Instruction

Of all the regulative principles, the spiritual master's order to chant at least sixteen rounds is most essential. – Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

Minimum 16 rounds have to be chanted. Constant chanting should be our goal. -Srila Prabhupada

Japa must be heart deep and not only with the lips like something mechanical – in other words, chanting with the heart is our goal. – Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

When Japa is not done with love and attention there is often no observable spiritual or material result. However this same Japa, done with love and attention, will enable us to perform all other devotion practices in pure a manner, also with love and attention. – Srila Prabhupada

90% of our advancement is dependent on chanting.  – Srila Prabhupada

Your japa beads are your ticket back to Godhead.   – Srila Prabhupada

“There is no such requirement that japa should be done silently and chanting should be done differently. Loudly or silently, everything is all right. There is no such restriction. Only thing is that we should chant very attentively, hearing the vibration very distinctly.” – Srila Prabhupada