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Notes on the practice, and the app.

Longer reads on how JaapDaily works and why it's built the way it is.

• A Naam Jaap counter with no ads. Ever. Why JaapDaily has no ads, no subscription, and no premium tier — and how a free app like that is possible.
• What is a mala? A plain-language explanation of the japa mala — the 108-bead string used to count mantra and naam repetitions across Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, and Jain practice.
• What are the benefits of naam jaap? What a daily naam jaap practice is generally said to do — what practitioners and traditions describe, presented side by side rather than resolved into one answer.
• The vastness of Hindu scriptures A map of how Sanatan Dharma's scriptures are traditionally organized — the Vedas, Upavedas, Vedangas, Upangas, the six schools of philosophy, the Prasthana Trayi, and the Agamas.