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Respected Sir, I am not able to decide which word to take for japa: “Maa” or “Om”. Please clarify. 📿🙏🏻

Both are wonderful and universal mantras, not requiring a guru to transmit it. To me, Maa connects better as it includes the heart and life and all existence with a very personal chord, even though universal and transcendent in its meaning and power. Om is the All-containing Absolute, impersonal and universal. 

Go by what you feel in the heart naturally and spontaneously.

Affectionately, 

Alok da

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