ok latha, here goes ...

1. grasp the basic meaning of each verse, in other words, the
english translation.

2. near the end of the week, start attempting to chant along with
the cd, and on the last day, do a decent job keeping up [not
expecting great pronunciation yet]

3. memorize and be able to write [without looking] in sanskrit this
line that appears repeatedly a verse ends in the stotram [that
unfastens the bolt]:

"give us your form, give us victory, give us welfare, remove all
hostility"

4. chant 1x day

steve

--- In Devi_Mandir (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Latha Nanda" <lathananda@y...>
wrote:
> How are we all doing on the Kavach ....
>
> Here is one word that is repeated over and over again and that
word
> is "raksha" which means "protection". Of course it comes with
> different case endings in Sanskrit - raksha, rakshen, rakshed,
> rakshech etc... If anyone is familiar with the case endings for
> Raksha , it will be great if you can share with us.
>
> Well, I am chanting the Kavach as part of this group sankalpa. I
was
> thinking that we should each measure our own progress with our own
> yardsticks . And I would love to know what each of you hope to get
> out of the one week per chapter
>
> For me, personally, it is
>
> 1) Chant the chapter atleast once a day
> 2) Memorize ATLEAST one verse from the chapter. So at the end of
the
> week, if I am asked what I got out of the Kavach - I can
say ..."oh
> I know this verse ..."
> 3) Learn as much of the vocabulary of the Kavach as possible . It
is
> particularly suited to knowing the parts of the body in sanskrit .
> For example - Chibukum means chin, bahu means arms etc ...
> 4) And personally very ambitious - to get to write atleast one of
> the verses in sanskrit .
>
>
> What do you hope to get out of the week of Kavach ? Please do
share
> with the forum.