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==Om Namo Bhagavateh==

OM NAMO BHAGAVATE.

These three words. For me they meant:

For the moment, of all the formulas or mantras, the one that acts most directly on this body, that seizes all the cells and immediately does this (''vibrating motion'') is the Sanskrit mantra: OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/september-16-1958#p24</ref>

This one, this mantra, OM NAMO BHAGAVATEH, came to me after some time, for I felt ... well, I saw that I needed to have a mantra of my own, that is, a mantra consonant with what this body has to do in the world. And it was just then that it came. It was truly an answer to a need that had made itself felt. So if you feel the need—not there, not in your head, but here (''Mother points to the center of her heart''), it will come. One day, either you will hear the words, or they will spring forth from your heart ... And when that happens, you must hold onto it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/september-16-1958#p51</ref>

==Verses Of The Gita ==

Verses of the Gita can be used as japa, if the object is to realise the Truth that the verses contain in them. …Everything depends on the selection of the verses. A coherent summary of the Gita's teaching cannot easily be put together by putting together some verses, but that is not necessary for a purpose of this kind which could only be to put the key truths together—not for intellectual exposition but for grasping in realisation which is the object of japa. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/mantra-and-japa#p31</ref>