________________
28
(i) In mental chanting, the lips remain closed and the
teeth open. (k) The lips shall flutter systematically in Upanshujapa. (1) In Bhashyajapa, the pronunciations are in rhythm. (m) Be seated at the same place and on the same seat
for some five minutes after the chanting. As you follow this process, you get uniquely
associated with the touch of Sattva born of chanting. (n) The implements for the chanting shall be kept at a
sanctified spot in all reverence. (0) Our honour and regard for these influences our
regard for the Mantra. (p) Our attention shall always see that the chanting is
done not only by the tongue but also on the mind. (q) We shall teach this sacred Navakara in all love and
regard to the younger brother in form of our mind. (r) The mind gets engrossed in the Navakara and all our
senses get merged in it. (s) Just as the body of the swimmer gets sprinkled with
water, so are our Pranas that have entered the Navakara sprinkled only with sacred feelings. If this does not happen, do understand that a large portion
of our Pranas remains outside the Navakara. (t) At the time of chanting the sacred Mantra, we should
constantly relish this feeling outside of Shri Navakara, birth, old age and death dominate.
Inside Shri Navakara there lies the ocean of external happiness.
