Sannyaasa Sukta video

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHwHKu-H71U

 

I uploaded a vid of me chanting the Sannyaasa Sukta, which is usually

chanted by Ammachi's swami's when she enters the darshan hall and is

having Pada Puja performed. It's also chanted prior to Devi Bhava,

with an added verse when offering a light.

 

It's just text to a recording I made and you'll need to speed read to

keep up. I don't profess to be an expert at Sanskrit chanting, and

I've made a small mistake in not holding out one of the " A " 's. I had

wanted to try out a new microphone I had gotten recently, but the

recording I ended up doing with a computer headset and software to

enhance it.

 

I normally don't chant it so slow, but the translation was so long and

still doesn't fit the recording right. But, I guess it helps those who

might wish to learn it.

 

Although Ammachi's organization does have a copy of the text and their

own translation in the #3 bhajan book, I prefer the translation from

here: http://www.gosai.com/chaitanya/sarana...

 

Translation for those who can't speed read the video:

 

One can achieve immortality in association with the Lord, not by ones

own pious deeds, nor by the pious deeds of one's sons, nor by the

accumulation of wealth, but only by renunciation of all enjoyment for

oneself and offering everything to the Supreme Lord.

 

This state of perfection, which is attained by the real sannyasi-s, is

situated far beyond this world, and is difficult to reach for the

ordinary man. Those sannyasi-s, having realized the actual conclusion

of the Vedas, having given up personal sense enjoyment for engagement

in the Lord's service, and being completely free of the influence of

the material modes, at the end of their lives become freed from the

material world and enter that Vaikuntha realm.

 

There is a lotus situated within the body, in the middle of the heart,

a place free from all suffering. It is the spiritual sky, free from

all material contamination and lamentation. There resides the object

of our worship. He who is glorified at the beginning of the Vedas, and

is firmly established at the end of the Vedas, who resides beyond the

material sphere, who is second to none, He is the Supreme.