Total Thinking: 6 - Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================================================================== Thursday 23, July 2026, 20:50. Books Philosophy: Total Thinking: 6. Chapter 6: Mantra Japam: Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================== Chapter 6: Mantra Japa: 1. This has reference to the great system of yoga known as japa—the chanting of a mantra, which is a principle method of religious practice in the various faiths of the world. While religions vary and differ from one another, in this one particular mode of practice they are almost the same. Every religion recommends and considers as primary the chanting of the Divine Name, the repetition of a formula or the recitation of what we know as a mantra. There is the Patra Nostra in Christian circles, and you must have seen clergymen tying a rosary around their waists even when they are walking about in public. A mala is held by a religi...