Recipe for Attentive Chanting

Gopal Guru Goswami's Prayers For Chanting Japa

We can chant one prayer with each round or we may use one prayer for all 16 rounds, depending on the devotee's preference.

Hare: O Hari! Please steal my mind and deliver me from the bondage of material life.

Krsna: O Krsna! Please draw my mind to You.

Hare: O Hari! Please steal away my heart with Your sweetness.

Krsna: O Krsna! Please purify my mind by giving me knowledge of how to worship You through Your devotees.

Krsna: O Krsna! Please let me develop a taste for Your service.

Krsna: O Krsna! Please make me steady in hearing about Your names, forms, qualities, and pastimes.

Hare: O Radha! Please make me qualified to serve You.

Hare: O Radha! Please guide me in my service to You.

Hare: O Radha! Please make me qualified to hear Your pastimes with Your beloved Krsna.

Rama: O Krsna! Please make me qualified to hear Your pastimes with Your beloved Radha.

Hare: O Radha! Please let me see Your pastimes with Your beloved.

Rama: O Krsna! Please engage me in remembering Your names, forms, qualities, and pastimes.

Rama: O Krsna! Please engage me in remembering Your name, form, qualities, and pastimes.

Rama: O Krsna! Please make me qualified for serving in Your pastimes.

Hare: O Hari! Please make me Your servant and enjoy with me as You like.

Hare: O Hari! I am Your eternal servant. Please make me fit to give You pleasure.

Nama Prabhu ki jaya.