Ajapa Jap
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Continuous mental repetition of a sacred name or mantra with every breath throughout daily activities — chanted silently rather than aloud, and considered fully valid and sufficient as a spiritual practice.
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Ajapa jap of a deity's name with every breath is enough
Asked whether "Om Shiv Goraksh" may be repeated mentally all day, with every breath, the speaker says it certainly can be done. However much Ajapa Jap of Bhagwan's names you do — that is, mental japa — is enough.
The chosen deity's name should run through the day alongside the anushthan
Whenever time allows — while walking about, or as Ajapa Japa — the Guru mantra or the chosen deity's name should be running: Bhairava's ten names, Datta's twelve, the Goddess's name, or failing all else the name of Sitaram. Two or three days of dedication makes it automatic.
Eligibility for Shri Samba Shivaya Namah japa, including ajapa jap
The speaker says every householder — child or old, woman or man, married or unmarried, of every varna — may chant this mantra at any time without hesitation, doubt or fear. To those who had asked, after his ajapa jap teaching, which Sadashiv mantra to use because name-japa alone did not satisfy them, he says: chant this one, and it may be used for Ajapa Jap as well.
After Mahashivratri: lifelong daily japa and ajapa jap of the mantra
When Mahashivratri is complete, the speaker says, one should contribute something to the Shiv-Parvati vivah being celebrated at whichever temple. From the next day, chant the mantra on the mala daily according to capacity — five malas or 21 — as a lifelong rule. Mala japa is compulsory, but beyond it one may also do Ajapa Jap of this mantra while walking about and even while going to sleep, seating the mantra in one's body, life, mind and prana; with these two mantras, he says, a whole life passes and whatever is wanted is obtained, if done with such niyam and nishtha.
He made gurus of several sadhaks; his foremost Sadguru is brahmaleen, and by his kripa the japa of the ritvij mantras continues
In his own life, he says, he met such sadhaks that he made them guru. It is not that he has had only one guru — he did not have one guru. His own foremost Sadguru ji Maharaj has become brahmaleen; but even after his going, by his very kripa, and by japa of the mantras of the ritvijs granted by him, and their anushthan and ajapa jap, such gurus were obtained as one cannot say lack capability.
What happens once the satnam has been memorised?
Whether you are doing the Ashtottar Shatnam of Bhagavan Shri Ram, of Durga ji, of Bhagavan Krishna, of Maa Adya, of Maa Dakshina Kali, of Maa Kalika — of anyone at all — once the Ashtottar Shatnam has become memorised, you can do its japa in the day like ajapa jap. You can keep these names running inside your mind every moment. When you begin to do it in this manner, it goes to that level of chaitanyata where many works begin to be accomplished by your merely thinking of them.
What is the relation between ajapa and yoga?
The speaker says ajapa japa is something that goes on always; and if you do ajapa japa together with yoga, then it becomes a giver of a hundred times more fruit.
Do the rules of a 108-bead mala apply to a 27-bead sumirani?
People ordinarily use a sumirani for simran, the speaker says, but in his own view one should do ajapa jap. Why is a sumirani needed at all — when it is only to be done twenty-seven times, one should not keep a sumirani but should do ajapa jap. Asked what may be done in home puja so as to get the effect of a Shakti Peeth's puja, he says that for that you will first have to live in a Shakti Peeth; do it living in a Shakti Peeth, and only then will that effect be obtained.
What is ajapa jap and how does it work?
Naam jap should not be left; if you keep doing naam jap, ajapa jap will keep happening, and ajapa jap has a vidhi. When the subject of karmakand is learnt, one learns how the breath moving in and out is carried by Soham and Hans, since it runs naturally in that very manner — which is held to be the Parmahansa mantra. But it is brought to fruition by taking a sankalpa, and the one whose mind stays free of vikaar is the one who will take that sankalpa.
After a week of ten malas a day, the mantra runs within you at every moment by the eighth
If you do japa of the mantras for even one week, ten malas each day, he says, then on the eighth day your condition will become such that that mantra of yours will begin to run within you at every moment. It will begin to give you delight, in complete peace. Before any wrong thought comes, it will come into your attention that we have done japa of the mantra, and this mantra is running.
What should such a person do when he does get free time?
And whenever you get a holiday, whenever you get some special time, do as much japa of that same stotra as you can — do 108, and if you wish to do more, do more, do an anushthan. Whenever it is possible, practise saying those twelve names in the mind again and again. At the time of sleeping, when you go to bed, fall asleep uttering that same name. Let there come a time in life when the ajapa japa of his name begins of itself within your mind.
The foundation before Pitambara sadhana: Guru, Ganpati and Ma Sharada
What Bhagavati or any devi-devta says comes first, the speaker says, is Guru, Ganesha and Ma Sharada; at least this much sadhana should be behind you. Was a guru mantra taken, and how much Japa of it was done, even as Ajapa Jap: by rule at least sava lakh. Leaving Haridra Ganpati aside, was even the ordinary Ganpati svarup served, his Kavach recited, his dwadash naam japa done, at least a ten-day anushthan, Modak offered? If you do not do the sadhana of the Vighnaharta, he says, he is the first to become the Vighnakarta, so how can you expect success and no trouble. The proportion of trouble differs from person to person, one succeeds after three days of Ganpati and another suffers even after ten, but the order must stay the same; go straight to the sadhana and there will be trouble.
What should someone do who cannot manage puja at all?
If even wanting to you cannot do puja and the affliction increases greatly, then do naam jap. He refers to an earlier video on ajapa jap and naam jap, yathashakti. If the body no longer has the capacity, or you simply cannot do it, then by doing naam jap take the sharanagati of Bhagwan.
With which name should the ajapa jap of Ma Kali be done?
Whichever name you wish to do. Whichever name of Ma Kali you find pleasing, of that name you can do the japa.
Does japa done on a kar mala while travelling count toward an anushthan?
Asked whether japa done on a kar mala while travelling counts within a daily anushthan of 51 malas of Ram naam, or only what is done seated at the puja place, he distinguishes ajapa jap from seated japa. While on travel you may do ajapa jap; at least your chain will not break. Do not bring it into the count — if you have a sankalp of a sava lakh or five lakh, do not count the travelling japa — but do keep doing the japa.
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