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How to Make and Apply Tilaka.

ISKCON devotees generally make their tilaka from a cream-colored clay called gopi-candana, made from the mud of Vrindavan. You can most likely obtain this in a packed form from your local temple or supplier of devotional items. If you are unable to find it, you can even use potters' clay or earth from beneath a tulasi plant.

Put a little water in the palm of your left hand and move your block or ball of tilaka clay briskly until you get a smooth paste. As you do this, chant Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

Apply tilaka with the ring finger of your right hand. Make a mark—about as wide as the space between your eyebrows—from the root of your nose to your hairline. Now use the same finger, perhaps the little one, to make a clear space in the middle to form two vertical lines. You can also use a clean cotton cloth to make the inside space neat. Now make the leaf- shaped mark, which should extend from the base of the lines to about three quarters of the way down the nose.

After marking your forehead, apply tilaka to eleven other places on your body like this. You can use your fingers to do it or you can use stamp which has the shape of tilak.

As you apply the tilaka, recite the appropriate names of Vishnu. Om keshavaya namah means "O my Lord Keshava, I offer my respectful obeisance unto You." So as we mark our bodies, we chant twelve of His holy names.

oṁ keśavāya namaḥ (forehead)
oṁ nārāyaṇāya namaḥ (navel)
oṁ mādhavāya namaḥ (chest)
oṁ govindāya namaḥ (throat)
oṁ viṣṇave namaḥ (right side of the navel)
oṁ madhusūdanāya namaḥ (right upper arm)
oṁ trivikramāya namaḥ (right shoulder)
oṁ vāmanāya namaḥ (left side of the navel)
oṁ śrīdharāya namaḥ (left upper arm)
oṁ hṛṣīkeśāya namaḥ (left shoulder)
oṁ padmanābhāya namaḥ (upper back)
oṁ dāmodarāya namaḥ (lower back)

If you can't find the clay to make tilaka (or if your wearing tilaka wouldn't sit well with your boss), you can go through the same procedure using only water. Use water that has bathed the Deity or pure water you've sanctified by chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. By chanting the names of the Lord and applying the invisible representation of His temple, you'll be protected and spiritually inspired for a Krishna conscious day.

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