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Namajapa has a great power in it.
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Namochcharana has power but only if it comes from the heart
and the soul; mere repetition with the mind is not enough.
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Whatever name is called the Power that answers is the Mother.
Each name indicates a certain aspect of the Divine and is lim-
ited by that aspect; the Mother's Power is universal.
Naturally, whatever name one concentrates on [while
awake] will repeat itself [in sleep], if any does. But the calling of
Mother in sleep is not necessarily a repetition — it is the inner
being that often calls to her in difficulty or in need.
I did not encourage the name with the breathing because
that seemed like pranayam. Pranayam is a very powerful thing,
but if done haphazardly it may lead to the raising of obstruc-
tions and even in extreme cases illness in the body.
CWSA 29: 327

Success in Japa
I am sorry the old reaction to the japa has recurred. Perhaps
the mind is doing it too much as a means for a result. The japa
is usually successful only on one of two conditions, — if it is
repeated with a sense of its significance, a dwelling of some-
thing in the mind on the nature, power, beauty, attraction of
the Godhead it signifies and is to bring into the consciousness,
that is the mental way, — or if it comes up from the heart or
rings in it with a certain sense or feeling of bhakti making it
alive, that is the emotional way. Either the mind or the vital
has to give it support or sustenance. But if it makes the mind
dry and the vital restless, it must be missing that support and
sustenance. There is of course a third way, the reliance on the

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