Later that same day, 5 July 1953, Ramdas Chaurasia of Nagpur came to Dehra Dun with his sons, Shankarlal and Ganeshlal, and they were also permitted to see Baba. Baba gave instructions to Ramdas about Shankarlal's marriage. In the course of conversation, Ramdas asked Baba the proper way to do japa (repetition of God's name). Replying, Baba stated:

Day and night you breathe, but do you ever think of it? Even at night when you sleep and when it is not possible to think of it, your breathing goes on for 24 hours, continuously and naturally. Do the japa in a similar manner; do it in such a way that it goes on spontaneously all the time — while eating, drinking, sitting, walking, talking — so that in the course of time, it becomes a natural habit.

To form this habit, first you have to repeat the one name of God most dear to you for half an hour daily, increasing the time gradually until the mental repetition becomes a natural habit, and you keep repeating it for 24 hours. God has hundreds and thousands of names. Select an easy one and with every inhalation, repeat it. While doing it, no special sitting or standing posture is required.

This habit will make you repeat God's name always — while eating, working, urinating, defecating and so on. If at all you forget to take His name, take it at once as soon as you remember. Do this, thinking that it is a duty given to you. Don't worry if you ever forget to take His name. If your thoughts begin to flow into a different channel, stop them and go on repeating His name. When it becomes a firm habit with you, even while thinking other thoughts, the repetition will be uppermost and you will not even be conscious that you are doing it — exactly in the same way in which you are unconscious of your breathing.

Do not do it like pranayama, by taking one chosen name when you inhale and the same name when you exhale. Not like that, but do the repetition as I have explained in a natural way. Take any name — mine or anyone's — but have nothing to do with breathing.

Such a repetition will benefit you greatly, and there is not the least harm. If you go on repeating my name with love, you may possibly become God. Again have nothing to do with pranayama; follow the method I have shown you. It would have been different had you decided yourself how to take God's name. But now that I have instructed you, you have to act accordingly.