[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie msilver1951@ wrote: Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita? The Saint James version always did it for me. Here's some shlokas, or whatever, from the beginning of that giitaa: achintyaavyaktaruupaaya nirguNaaya gaNaatmane | samastajagadaadhaaramuurtaye brahmaNe namaH || 1|| R^ishhaya uuchuH | suuta suuta mahaapraaGYa nigamaagamapaaragam.h | gurusvaruupamasmaakaM bruuhi sarvamalaapaham.h || 2|| yasya shravaNamaatreNa dehii duHkhaadvimuchyate | yena maargeNa munayaH sarvaGYatvaM prapedire || 3|| (The infamous B.Mullquist would translate that like this: By merely hearing [shravaNa-maatreNa] of which [yasya] the Embodied Soul [?? dehii] is liberated [vimuchyate] from suffering [duHkhaat]; by(?) which [yena] road [?maargeNa] /munis/ [munayaH] attain [?prapedire*] all-knowingness [sarva-jñatvam]) *) No idea what the fvck that strange form is of the verb prapad; it might be some perfect tense form, but Sanskrit perfect tense is often to be translated to the corresponding present tense form, like in yas tan na *veda* from the Rco akSare.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
do.rflex wrote: Here's a beautiful 8 min video clip of Shri Guru Gita sung by Kumuda (Sharon Janis) Kumuda became very familiar with the syllables and sentiments of this chanting prayer during her decade of monastic life in the Siddha Yoga ashram of Baba Muktananda and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. Early every morning, the ashram residents and guests chanted this text as the main ingredient in a daily, hour-and-a-half devotional chanting session. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmCl2sL4m8 very nice singing; here are the words, sansrit and english: http://www.pranakasha.com/guru_gita/verses_x-5.shtml she sings only first 10 verses (of 182 in this translation)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita? The Idiot's Guide To the Guru Gita--Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Everything http://www.idiotsguidetothegurugita.com
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
---from http://www.syda.org in S. Fallsburg, NY; the HQ of SYDA. I just sent away this morning for a video of Swami Muktananda chanting the Guru Gita, as well as an audio CD. I have the small booklet in front of me. Comes in a book with larger pages also.Comes in a larger book size also. Transliteration starts out: Om. Lord Sadasiva is the seer of the mantras of this hymn, Shri Guru Gita Its verse patterns are diverse. The Guru, the Supreme Self, is its deity. Ham is its seed leter, sah its power, and drom its nail. The purpose of repeating it is to win the Guru's grace. The Guru, who dwells in the lotus surrounded by the divine petals ham and sahy, which reside in all beings and are the cause of the world, manifested the world in his own way and of his own free will. Meditate on the Guru, who revealt That, who is the expressionof teh shambhava state (Shivahood), who illumines like the flame of a lamp, who is eternal and all-pervasie, and who is a visible form of all letters. I repeat the Guru Gita to realize the four goals of life (dharma, righteousness; artha, wealth; kama, pleasure; moksha, libration). Suta said: On the beautiful summit of Mount Kailasa, Parvati, having bowed with reverence to Lord Shiva, who is the master of uniting one with devotion, asked: The Goddess said: Om. Salutations, O God, O lord of gods, O higher than the highest, O teacher of the universe, O benevolent one, O great God initiate me into the nowledge of the Guru. O Lord, by which path can an embodied Soul become one with Brahman (absolute reality)? Have compassion on me, O Lord! I bow to your feet. [then, the rest of the Guru Gita is Shiva's reply]...which amounts to devotion to the Guru and repeating the Guru Gita. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita? Here's a link to the Siddha Yoga Bookstore...lots of possibilities for Guru Gitas here: http://siddhayogabookstore.org/search.aspx?find=guru+gita http://siddhayogabookstore.org/search.aspx?find=guru+gita Cath
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
I bought that years ago on LP (that about tells you how long ago) and it is a nice rendition and I believe the text that came with it gave both the transliteration and the translation. tertonzeno wrote: ---from http://www.syda.org in S. Fallsburg, NY; the HQ of SYDA. I just sent away this morning for a video of Swami Muktananda chanting the Guru Gita, as well as an audio CD. I have the small booklet in front of me. Comes in a book with larger pages also.Comes in a larger book size also. Transliteration starts out: Om. Lord Sadasiva is the seer of the mantras of this hymn, Shri Guru Gita Its verse patterns are diverse. The Guru, the Supreme Self, is its deity. Ham is its seed leter, sah its power, and drom its nail. The purpose of repeating it is to win the Guru's grace. The Guru, who dwells in the lotus surrounded by the divine petals ham and sahy, which reside in all beings and are the cause of the world, manifested the world in his own way and of his own free will. Meditate on the Guru, who revealt That, who is the expressionof teh shambhava state (Shivahood), who illumines like the flame of a lamp, who is eternal and all-pervasie, and who is a visible form of all letters. I repeat the Guru Gita to realize the four goals of life (dharma, righteousness; artha, wealth; kama, pleasure; moksha, libration). Suta said: On the beautiful summit of Mount Kailasa, Parvati, having bowed with reverence to Lord Shiva, who is the master of uniting one with devotion, asked: The Goddess said: Om. Salutations, O God, O lord of gods, O higher than the highest, O teacher of the universe, O benevolent one, O great God initiate me into the nowledge of the Guru. O Lord, by which path can an embodied Soul become one with Brahman (absolute reality)? Have compassion on me, O Lord! I bow to your feet. [then, the rest of the Guru Gita is Shiva's reply]...which amounts to devotion to the Guru and repeating the Guru Gita. In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought that years ago on LP (that about tells you how long ago) and it is a nice rendition and I believe the text that came with it gave both the transliteration and the translation. Here's a beautiful 8 min video clip of Shri Guru Gita sung by Kumuda (Sharon Janis). Kumuda became very familiar with the syllables and sentiments of this chanting prayer during her decade of monastic life in the Siddha Yoga ashram of Baba Muktananda and Gurumayi Chidvilasananda. Early every morning, the ashram residents and guests chanted this text as the main ingredient in a daily, hour-and-a-half devotional chanting session. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmCl2sL4m8feature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, deepaconn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie msilver1951@ wrote: Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita? Here's a link to the Siddha Yoga Bookstore...lots of possibilities for Guru Gitas here: http://siddhayogabookstore.org/search.aspx?find=guru+gita http://siddhayogabookstore.org/search.aspx?find=guru+gita Cath Thanks for the suggestions. I ordered Sri Guru Gita (Paperback) by Swami Narayanananda (Author) on Amazon.com.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Guru Gita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita? The Saint James version always did it for me.
