Sannyas Sukta/recordings/book

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The posting is old, considering there's now a Big Swami version of

the Sannyas Sukta on the Chants CD(?). Listening to the drums, I

guess it's taken from just before Devi Bhava, deleting the additional

verse that's added at that time (versus Amma's entrance). I learned

the melody for that last verse from an old tour video (either '92

or '97) when they show a clip of the waving of the flame in front of

Amma. The translit and translation is from somewhere on the web,

versus the Amma book(s). I don't have the Amritapuri Chanting

one. I think there's a typo in the bhajan book text, after

comparing the recordings, and I'm sure a few differences in a few

vowels, probably due to regional differences. I always like to

start it with a "Hari Om..." intro when I chant it.

 

The Dhyanam audio was posted (obviously without MAC copyright

permissions) because I was able to learn it from the CD-rom "From

Untruth to Truth". You see, the satsangs at that time either played

it from the old cassette (version not chanted in person), or the

older Indian devotees already knew the melody from memory. When I

began to join in, Westerner's even old-timers, were like "Where did

you learn that?". So I made copies on cassette and distributed them

to the satsang that still did the Devi 108 at that time (old satsang

format).

 

I think the e-books posting were a joke, I'll have to look back.

There's several I've started, but the only one I'm motivated to

finish as an offering will be the Lalita Sahasranam and Mahishasura

Mardini Stotram (Westerner's Learning Edition in Large Print) with a

modified typeface for some of the characters. I also hope to have

illustrations true to the descriptions in the Meditation Sloka. If

anyone's interested in contributing these drawings, I'd welcome the

help. I'll probably self-publish a handful in spiral bound format

and offer these to Amma next summer. Anyone willing to do the

drawings, I can compensate with a copy of the book, since there's no

guarantee that her ashram will publish it, and it will be a bit

costly just for the initial handful. For those locals who have seen

a draft that I did a couple years ago, I'm changing it to a landscape

format and doing it straight, rather than the stotra/list being back-

to-back flip-style, and adding the MAM Stotram to it.

 

The book on the practicals of sadhana (lamps, altar placement, room

lighting and placement, etc.) is definitely on hold because there's

simply no need for it (i.e., not many do 'old-school' sadhana these

days). I have a handful of titles for this one, like "Putting

the 'Sat' in Satsang." I think it was a chapter in this book that

was dedicated to common confusions in westerner's, like Kaali vs.

Kali and Liberation: Moksha vs. Mukti, Ego: The Easterner's

Definition.

 

tom

 

 

Ammachi, "Mahamuni Das" <mahamuni wrote:

>

> Tom,

>

> I think it is great that you posted mp3s of the Sannyas Sukta (the

shlokas that are chanted during Pada Puja and at the beginning of the

Devi Bhava) as well as the Dhyanam for the Lalita Sahasranam. Please

post more things like this.

>

> Your transliteration for the Sannyas Sukta is a bit off though and

not the version they use in the Bhajanamritan Vol 3 or in the

Amritapuri Chanting Book. It would be a good idea to follow their

version, which is also how it sounds when chanted.

>

> Also I thought you were going to post your e-books of the various

topics you posted about, like obstacles to avoid as beginning

Westerners, etc. What happened to those?

>

> Pranams,

>

> Surya