Recorded Japa seminar led by Jaya Pataka Swami in Serbia (multi-speaker transcript). The speaker instructs participants on proper japa chanting technique: timing and rounds, breaths per mantra (practical variability: 1–10+ per breath), posture, and clear pronunciation. He corrects common mispronunciations (e.g., adding a T in 'Krishna', omitting words), emphasizes listening to others and natural pacing, and notes that a full pronunciation-focused japa seminar can take three days. The transcript includes practical tips, anecdotes (Bhagavatam example, Prabhupada), and administrative remarks (lunch, volunteers).
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Three days.
They had to be more careful that they're chanting properly.
So.
You can chant a feeling. How many one need to hear their rounds. Okay. When I go stand up. If you don't want just don't stand up and I'll skip you. We'll ask someone else to do the timing. You want to do it again.
But.
Just chant the normal way channel.
All right. Again.
Second round timing again. This time just here. A few mantras for each person choose but this chat loud.
It's Sam Sham. It's. It's. It's Shamish Sam 16. It's Sara. It.
Cut some of these in half.
It's Sam.
Has a different tool.
Sam.
Take a while to hear everybody Translator. So take some time to hear everybody. How long? How much is the first time? Okay, then one thing you can do.
Is.
That everybody here Chance.
I don't know.
I didn't hear anybody. Only in the beginning. One or two are slow. But I didn't reach the slow ones yet.
You didn't know some portrait.
But.
Anybody here was over eight. How many minutes you take.
You maybe.
A chanting twice on the beats. Sometimes the people. I didn't hear it. I didn't hear it. When you were chanting. Maybe you speed it up for me you're nervous. But sometimes if people chant that takes more time. I didn't hear it particularly. I wasn't listening for it. I was listening mainly for the other things. You can see how hard because that also delays makes it longer if you do more breathing. There's no hard and fast rule for chanting. It's not any specific rule. How many breaths? How many mantras per breath? If you take a deep breath, see how many mantras you can chant. One breath.
Bread.
See how many mantras you can chant.
One bread.
How many? One per breath.
Breath.
Three per breath. Four per breath. Five, six, seven.
Eight.
David 10, 11. You done it.
He said there's no heart in festival. If I try to do that many every. Every breath.
Probably get busy.
Practical chanting I probably do.
For.
That is one thing you can chant out. Just sing and take. Take something natural. Don't do like a big competition like I just did. But just try a chant. Take a deep breath. Just sit straight.
Chant.
I'll continue listening. See how it affects your.
In the.
Middle of the tape sometimes he says sit properly. So sitting nice is also helps. How many have I have I heard so far? Oh, so many more.
Okay.
Sorry that took so long. Sometime you have another one or two sanyasis and they help me. Listening to the people I Think mostly everybody here was okay. I think some of the devotees slowed.
Down for melo Mantra doesn't let me.
Hear how you normally chance. I was sitting in a room, you know San serious. There was a devotee chanting outside. Call him devotee. And Prabhupada said what mantra you chanting? He was shocked. You know I'm chanting Hare Krishna. What is it next? So actually we're running out of time. Now it's going to be time for your lunch. Otherwise actually do this seminar. Japa seminar takes three days. First day just to get everybody. So they're all pronouncing very nicely. And just like in Russia, there's people they say instead of. But anyway, I'm sure Krishna understands what they're saying. Mechanical process. The Krishna Zama are trying to chant his holy name. So this was totally mechanical process. Like some bathing mantras are mechanical. If you pronounce them wrong, something else.
Happens.
In the Bhagavatam. What's the name of that Rishi. He wanted to make an enemy of Indra and suddenly made Indra's enemy. One means who can kill Indra. The other means. So Indriya will kill the one man who can kill Indra and the other who Indra will kill. There's the opposite meaning. Both are enemies but one victorious and one losing. Anyway, Hare Krishna is not like that. It's about the mantra. But still it's good if we pronounce it properly. Like our singers here. They pronounce very nicely. That's their training for make all the words pronounced well. Like I don't have a. A board here to write on. Well then I can write on that.
Yes, yes.
Okay. So some of my notes. So I come in a problem. We face the word some people at the end. This H means heartache.
K.
K means Krishna. Krishna means Ram. As I put like this. Or maybe like this. That means that sometimes people were chanting. The last one got cheap shop. So that's one note. Some people were chanting like Krish Krishna. They put a T in there. No tea. And Krishna doesn't have a T. But they put Krishna. Some people are doing. Is that Slavic?
I don't know.
That means temple in our language.
Temple something holy has also got name of Ram mother.
Yes.
So anyway like then sometime I would find like people would be going no next Hare.
Then.
This X means missing. That's the sakot. So then let's see what else we got. Somebody was chanting Hare Krishna.
Okay.
But then they did one Ram.
Ram.
Someone also left out the two Hares and went, that's the way to chant.
Faster.
From 16 words to about 12. I didn't hear anybody chanting extra round mantras, extra names. That's also common.
