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    "title": "Japa Thoughts | Subject/Object Japa",
    "url": "https://wavesofdevotion.com/2009/10/16/subjectobject-japa/",
    "datePublished": "2009-10-16",
    "dateModified": "2009-10-16",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "October 16, 2009 Sri Govardhana Subject/Object Japa SUBJECT consciousness: Seeing oneself as the SUBJECT and everything else as an OBJECT of one’s desires. The focus is on one’s own desires.…",
    "author": "Dhanurdhara Swami",
    "publisher": "Waves of Devotion"
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```

# Japa Thoughts | Subject/Object Japa

**October 16, 2009**

 Sri Govardhana

**Subject/Object *Japa***

SUBJECT consciousness: Seeing oneself as the SUBJECT and everything else as an OBJECT of one’s desires. The focus is on one’s own desires. It is selfishness.

OBJECT consciousness: Seeing others as the SUBJECT and oneself as an OBJECT of their desires. The focus is on the desires of others. It is selflessness.

*Japa* means chanting in OBJECT consciousness: “I am a servant or OBJECT for the Holy Name and the Lord’s devotees.”

I sit today for my meditation in my room. Govardhana, the sacred mount, is just 100 yards in front of me. I consciously try to see myself as just another tiny object on its periphery. I pray to move from the illusion that the world moves around my petty desires. I focus on His desires and move from SUBJECT to OBJECT by prayer:

“O Lord, O Energy of the Lord (SUBJECT), please engage me in your service (OBJECT).”