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To Be Recited On Taking The Mälä. Dedicating The Näma Japa

1) Prayer 1 requests that the mala grant freedom from obstacles in harinama japa and service to Radha and Krishna. 2) Prayer 2 describes Krishna as having a three-fold bending form while playing his flute and standing among the gopis. 3) Prayer 3 states that the holy name is like a touchstone, the supreme means of success, and there is nothing higher than the name. It is therefore worshipped.

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To Be Recited On Taking The Mälä. Dedicating The Näma Japa

1) Prayer 1 requests that the mala grant freedom from obstacles in harinama japa and service to Radha and Krishna. 2) Prayer 2 describes Krishna as having a three-fold bending form while playing his flute and standing among the gopis. 3) Prayer 3 states that the holy name is like a touchstone, the supreme means of success, and there is nothing higher than the name. It is therefore worshipped.

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Prayer 1 Prayer 4

To be recited on taking the mälä. Dedicating the Näma japa

avighnam kuru mäle tvaà näma-yajïo mahä-yajïaù


hari-näma-japeñu ca kalau kalmaña-näçanam
çré rädhä-kåñëayor däsyam kåñëa-caitanya-prityarthe
dehi mäle tu prärthaye näma-yajïa-samarpaëam

O mälä, I implore you: free my harinäma-japa from obstacles, grant me service The sacrifice to the name, the great sacrifice destroys the sins of the age of kali.
to Rädhä and Kåñëa! For the pleasure of Çré Kåñëa Caitanya this sacrifice of the name is dedicated.

Prayer 2 Prayer 5
Meditation on the Personality of Kåñëa, who is identical with His Holy Name Concluding japa

tribhaìga-bhaìgima-rüpaà patita-pävana näma


veëu-randhra-karäïcitam nistäraya narädhamam
gopé-maëòala-madhya-stham rädhä-kåñëa-svarüpäya
çobhitam nanda-nandanam caitanyäya namo namaù

In a three-fold bending form, his fingers curled over the holes of the flute, O name, O savior of the fallen please deliver this lowest of man. To you who
standing in a circle of gopés is the beautiful son of Nanda. have the same nature as Rädhä and Kåñëa and to Caitanya I bow again and
again!

Prayer 3 Prayer 6
Glorifying the Holy Name Concluding prayer to the mälä

näma cintämaëi-rupaà tvaà mäle sarva-devänäm


nämaiva paramä gatiù sarva-siddhi-pradä matä
nämnaù parataram nästi tena satyena me siddhià
tasmän näma upäsmahe dehi mätar namo ‚stu te

The name is like a divine touchstone. The name alone is the supreme means of You, O Mälä, we know as the bestower of all perfections to all the gods. Thus
success. There is nothing higher than the name. Therefore we worship the verily bestow perfection unto me. O mother, obeisances to you!
name.

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