Mantra japa

GUIDELINES FOR MANTRA REPETITION PRACTICE - THIS IS CALLED JAPA IN SANSKRIT

Please chant the mantra for the recommended number of times in 40 days as discussed.
Start on the recommended day of the week with the increasing moon, preferably after a meditation practice. Thereafter you may continue the practice at any time of day. 
Using mala beads is helpful to keep track, one mala is counted as 100 times even though there are usually 108 beads. 
The mantra should be only chanted silently or as an internally audible whisper if alone. 
Tantric bija or seed sounds do not have a meaning to be understood at the level of logic, but the vibration is assimilated, integrated and experienced with an internal blossoming through the Japa practice.