Common pitfalls

“Prajalpa-japa”: Unnecessarily talking while chanting.

“Dive-bomb japa”: Falling asleep while chanting (head nodding off).

“Radar japa”: constantly looking around.

“Machine-gun japa”: much too fast while shaking the finger.

“Jibber-japa”: it is just gibberish, no one can understand it.

“Day-dreamy japa”: not concentrating, following the wandering mind.