SLOKA OF THE WEEK:

Srimad Bhagavatam 8.3.1
sri-bädaräyanir uväca
evam vyavasito buddhyä
samädhäya mano hrdi
jajäpa paramam jäpyam
präg-janmany anusiksitam

sri-bädaräyanih uväca—Sri Sukadeva Gosvämi said; evam—thus; vyavasitah—fixed; buddhyä—by intelligence; samädhäya—for concentration; manah—the mind; hrdi—in consciousness or in the heart; jajäpa—he chanted; paramam—a supreme; jäpyam—mantra he had learned from great devotees; präk-janmani—in his previous birth; anusiksitam—practiced.

TRANSLATION

Sri Sukadeva Gosvämi continued: Thereafter, the King of the elephants, Gajendra, fixed his mind in his heart with perfect intelligence and chanted a mantra which he had learned in his previous birth as Indradyumna and which he remembered by the grace of Krsna.

JOURNAL:

Srila Prahupada, in his purport, gives us two other mantras that we may want to try; It is imperative, therefore, that all devotees in Krsna consciousness practice chanting some mantra. Certainly one should chant the Hare Krsna mantra, which is the mahä-mantra, or great mantra, and also one should practice chanting cintämani-prakara-sadmasu or the Nrsimha strotra (ito nrsimhah parato nrsimho yato yato yämi tato nrsimhah).