My dear Lord, I pray for better japa (the chanting of Your names and Radha’s names in the Hare Krishna mantra.) There are three stages of chanting: (1) offensive chanting; (2) the clearing stage, or namabhasa, and (3) offenseless chanting. I think my chanting moves between offensive and, sometimes, namabhasa. My chanting is not yet at the offenseless stage, and so I pray for Your help in achieving it. It requires Your mercy. (SB 5.24.20)
(_Japa Transformations_)
JAPA POEM
I pray to Krishna for better japa.
There are three
stages of chanting:
offensive, clearing,
and offenseless.
I estimate I am
between offensive and clearing.
I say that it
requires Krishna’s mercy
to reach offenseless
chanting and I pray
to Him to help me.