--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > I'm not much of a chanter. I was born without the innate sense of > > devotion that makes bhakti possible, and without the patience to > > sit and repeat something that didn't seem to be doing shit for me, > > so chanting was (and remains) not my cuppa tea. > > To me bhakti is an emotional fixation on some God concept or > pedestalized God-person (e.g., ISKCON and Ammachi), and I am > totally not wired for that. OTOH, I am very much drawn to the > sound of Vedic chants, and I did end up with the Gayatri > Mantra running in my head for years. Technically, that > probably makes me devotee of Surya (solar deity), but it > was never bhakti in any kind of emotional sense. If you > ever see me clutching a little stuffed Sun doll and > bawling my eyes out, you'll know my perspective has > changed on this.
Now you've got me worried about all those rock 'n roll songs that have gotten stuck in my head for weeks at a time over the years, and their possible deleterious long- term effects. For example, when Warren Zevon's "Werewolves Of London" came out, I wound up with it running through my brain non-stop for a month. Do you think that might have had something to do with my occasional desire to bite people about the ankles during a fool moon? <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM>
