mAyA in the vedas: the One and the many: Sound of Vedic music

[Guest guest]

Hi Ken-ji and Adi-ji,

 

Thanks for that. Just a clarification of the point I was making about the

translation - I'm afraid I did not express myself very clearly. I am

certainly happy that the English word 'same' is derived from the Sanskrit

'sama' - I would never have challenged you over that. My point was that the

word 'same' never occurred in the original. The original word was, as you

say, the Greek 'outos'. My point was that it does not seem reasonable to

claim that 'outos' came from the Sanskrit 'sama'. It seems that this was

what you were effectively saying. At the time that the original was written,

it had not yet been translated into English so the word 'same' was nowhere

present.

 

I've had a look at the 'flaez' site - I didn't see that there were any audio

chants there. Yes, I did all of the chants at SES and quite enjoyed them. I

learnt all of my Sanskrit from there - enough, anyway to write my 'Essential

Guide to Sanskrit' book!

 

Thanks for the reference to the Ravi Shankar chants, Adi-ji. Amazing - when

I said that I was totally ignorant, I should have said apart from the Ravi

Shankar chants I have on CD! These are the same ones, though they are

excellent. More like these, please! Many of the ones we learnt at SES are

here, actually, though we learnt different melodies.

 

Best wishes,

 

Dennis

[Guest guest]

advaitin, "Dennis Waite" <dwaite@a...> wrote:

 

More like these, please! Many of the ones we learnt at SES are

> here, actually, though we learnt different melodies.

 

Namaste,

 

A cassette of Veda chanting is available from the Ramanashram

office. The selections were done by Maharshi himself, and the Veda-

Parayana has been carried on at the Ashram for almost 80 yrs, 45 min.

in the morning and in the evening. He said that these chants helped

" 'still the mind' even if one did not know the meaning."

 

The cassette has these chants:

 

Taittiriya upanishad

Shree suktam

Mahanarayana upanishad (selections)

Shri Rudram (namakam and chamakam)

Purusha suktam

Narayana suktam

Durga suktam

Taittiriya aranyaka (selections)

 

In addition, it has:

 

Ramana-chatvarinshat (40 verses in praise of Maharshi - composed by

Vasishtha Ganapati Muni)

Arunachalapancharatnam (Maharshi's own composition)- sanskrit

Upadeshasaram ( " " ")- sanskrit

 

The cassette comes with a booklet which has English

translations of the text.

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder