Nama Japa: The Prayar of the Name

For many years Vandana Mataji used to spend six months of the year in Rishikesh, Himalayas, in prayer study and dialogue with Hindu masters and sadhakas from India and abroad. With her Guru-behn Ishpriya Mataji, she gives retreats and courses based on yogic spirituality in different parts of the world wherever invited. She has been spending the rest of the year at Jeevan-Dhara Ashram in Jaiharikhal, Garhwal (Himalayas) where God-seekers of all denominations are welcomed. With an M.A. in History and Politics and a post-graduate qualification in Hindustani Classical Music, she lectured at Sophia College, Bombay, for 18 years. Her special concern has been to promote inculturation of Christian spirituality and theology so that the Church in India may recognize her genuine Indian identity and to absorb the riches of other faiths especially Hinduism. Her books and may articles have emerged from her own spiritual experience shared with God-seekers in many ashrams both Hindu and Christian. Here she presents us with a study, at once practical and theological, of The Prayer of the Name in the Hindu and Christian traditions. As Swami Chidananda says, it should be of immense benefit to seekers both in the East and in the West.