ajapa
अजप ajapa"Unrepeated repetition" (ajapa-japa); japa that continues on its own, riding the breath in and out, heard rather than performed.
Where this term appears
- What is a Mantra? Worship
There is also a further idea, ajapa-japa , the "unrepeated repetition." The notion is that the mantra eventually keeps itself going, riding the breath in and out without effort, so that the practitioner is no l…
- Soham: The Mantra of the Breath Treatise
The repetition that is not recited The tradition has a precise name for this: ajapa-japa , which is a small paradox in two words.
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
…r’s body, twenty-one thousand six hundred times a day, performing the ajapa - the Sa-Ham , Hamsa , I am That - without the practitioner deciding to perform it, is meditated as the goddess’s own breath operating…
- Two Worships, Four Yagas Treatise
The external mantra-recitation and the ajapa - the unrecited mantra, the breath that runs in Sa on the inhale and Ham on the exhale (the Hamsa - I am That - that the practitioner’s breath performs 21,600 times …