Guest guest Posted January 29, 2002 Report Share Posted January 29, 2002 Dear Vijay One of the best ways to learn the sahasranama is by LISTENING to it ( on a tape for example) - it is very difficult to learn the pronunciation just by reading it - esp if the book is in english and if one does not know sanskrit .. The initial 100 names or so of the Sahasranama are very long and they are quite difficult to pronounce if you are just starting to learn it - but the later names are easier . However if you listen from a cassette that will be good. You could try the Sahasranama cassette sung by indian musicians- like- Bombay sisters or Sivananda Vijayalskhmi. Now it is also easier if you learn it in the shloka format rather than the archana format - that is all the names sung together without the 'Om' and namaha. Then when you get the song in your mind , it is easier to split the individual names and do it in the archana format . Both ways of repetition are quite popular . the cassette from M.A center is in the archana format . ( the Om- namaha format). In india we do chant it either way . When we are doing japa of the sahasranama, we often just start with Om and sing all the 1000 names together in a string , and end with an Om. But when we do elaborate puja using the sahasranama, then it is the archana format used . Either way i strongly sugest that you get a sahasranama book blessed by Amma before you start learning it seriously . Usually the Guru initiates the disciple in the sahasranama. Since our Guru is Amma, you could take a sahasranama book with you next time you are in darshan line, and get it blessed by Amma . You will see that the learning becomes MUCH easier after that . This is my own experience. After getting the sahasranama blessed by Amma, I started doing it more often ( even though i had learnt it a few years before that). Jai Ma bala >Ammachi >Ammachi >Ammachi > Digest Number 419 >29 Jan 2002 19:01:43 -0000 > >Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! > >Ammachi > >------ > >There are 6 messages in this issue. > >Topics in this digest: > > 1. lalithasahasranama > Yoga man <childofdevi > 2. Re: lalithasahasranama > "hermes1008" <berlinertraum > 3. Re: lalithasahasranama > "tomgull" <tomgull > 4. Re: lalithasahasranama > "aikya" <aikya > 5. Re: Digest Number 417 > KGMattern > 6. Re: lalithasahasranama > girishv <girishv > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message: 1 > Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:23:07 -0800 (PST) > Yoga man <childofdevi >lalithasahasranama > >Namaste, > >Can anyone tell me where I can get the >lalithasahasranama stotram online in >Mayalayam/Devanagiri? > >I just brought one in English but it is really >difficult to get the pronunciation correctly(dont ever >buy Lalithasahasranama in English!) > >Aum Namsivaya, >Vijay > > > >Great stuff seeking new owners in Auctions! >http://auctions. > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message: 2 > Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:12:59 -0000 > "hermes1008" <berlinertraum >Re: lalithasahasranama > >There is a book from Ramakrishanmision in Sanskrit and english >by swami Tapasyananda. Very good. > >Ammachi, Yoga man <childofdevi> wrote: > > Namaste, > > > > Can anyone tell me where I can get the > > lalithasahasranama stotram online in > > Mayalayam/Devanagiri? > > > > I just brought one in English but it is really > > difficult to get the pronunciation correctly(dont ever > > buy Lalithasahasranama in English!) > > > > Aum Namsivaya, > > Vijay > > > > > > > > Great stuff seeking new owners in Auctions! > > http://auctions. > > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message: 3 > Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:01:42 -0000 > "tomgull" <tomgull >Re: lalithasahasranama > >Try this link from the Sanskrit Documents site. >You may want to download their ITX translator. > >http://sanskrit.gde.to/doc_devii/doc_devii.html > >It has the stotram in English (itx format) and >some form of script, not sure which. > > > >Ammachi, Yoga man <childofdevi> wrote: > > Namaste, > > > > Can anyone tell me where I can get the > > lalithasahasranama stotram online in > > Mayalayam/Devanagiri? > > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message: 4 > Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:26:18 -0000 > "aikya" <aikya >Re: lalithasahasranama > >I like the Ramakrishna Mission Lalita Sahasranama books as well. >Each name is written in devanagari and Roman transliteration and then >translated. If you can't read devanagari, you miss out on being able >to read the poetry version, but you can access the namavalli (OM ____ >namaH) perfectly well. Swami Tapasyananda has extensive essays about >the prayer as a whole and comments on each verse. Sw. Tapasyananda's >translation give traditional meaning. Now and then his version is >better than our big book on Lalitasahasranama translated by Dr. >Namboodiri. That one now and then doesn't translate the name but >just renders something or other. Thus it's not so reliable as Sw. >T's for name meaning although good for cultural background. > >Aikya > > >Ammachi, "hermes1008" <berlinertraum@c...> wrote: > > There is a book from Ramakrishanmision in Sanskrit and english > > by swami Tapasyananda. Very good. > > > > Ammachi, Yoga man <childofdevi> wrote: > > > Namaste, > > > > > > Can anyone tell me where I can get the > > > lalithasahasranama stotram online in > > > Mayalayam/Devanagiri? > > > > > > I just brought one in English but it is really > > > difficult to get the pronunciation correctly(dont ever > > > buy Lalithasahasranama in English!) > > > > > > Aum Namsivaya, > > > Vijay > > > > > > > > > > > > Great stuff seeking new owners in Auctions! > > > http://auctions. > > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message: 5 > Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:30:55 EST > KGMattern >Re: Digest Number 417 > >In a message dated 1/27/02 9:39:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, >Ammachi writes: > ><< > I'd like to know a little bit more about why Amritapuri's not such a > good setting for intermediate-beginning meditation. As meditation is > a major part of my existence, this interests me. I can say that in my > own home, my meditations are very deep and profound. I would like to > visit Mother's ashram simply to make a connection with her in her > home and to spend a little more time with her there (and do some > seva), but I'd like to know more about meditation practice in > Amritapuri. Is there a meditation hall there where residents can go > at any time of the day? Is it really a very noisy place as I've heard > time and time again? >> > >My experience has been that meditating in Amma's presence, especially in >India, greatly moved me along in term so of depth and intensity of >meditation, and made a positive contribution to my meditation at home. In >India, just as in America, meditating around Amma means meditating in a >noisy >environment. It helped me to read in the Autobiography of a Yogi by >Paramahamsa Yogananda, which I read just before meeting Amma, that >meditation >in India always takes place in the midst of the noisiness of everyday life, >because, after all, that's where spiritual life takes place. One needs to >be >able to make the mind one-pointed and concentrated even in the midst of >distractions. That's the whole point of meditation practice. > >It's nice to meditate in silence, very pleasant indeed - I often have that >experience here at home, or at the meditation retreats at MA Center, but >but >there is nothing to compare with meditating in Amma's presence. Verbal >instructions, indeed, do not seem to be necessary. Experiences seem to >'just >happen.' > >I also find that doing seva, which I do primarily at Mother's Kitchen >Project in Oakland, does seem to vivify my compelling link with Amma, and >to >purify my mind sufficiently to make prayer and meditation relatively easy. >I >am most grateful for these opportunities in my life. Om Namah Shivaya, >Kasturi > > >______________________ >______________________ > >Message: 6 > Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:00:41 -0800 (PST) > girishv <girishv >Re: lalithasahasranama > >Vijay, > >If you are in the US, you can buy it from >http://www.vedanta.com/getpage.cfm?file=titles/10000232.html > >Hope this helps, > >girish > >On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Yoga man wrote: > > > Namaste, > > > > Can anyone tell me where I can get the > > lalithasahasranama stotram online in > > Mayalayam/Devanagiri? > > > > I just brought one in English but it is really > > difficult to get the pronunciation correctly(dont ever > > buy Lalithasahasranama in English!) > > > > Aum Namsivaya, > > Vijay > > > > > > > > Great stuff seeking new owners in Auctions! > > http://auctions. > > > > > > Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! > > > > Ammachi > > > > > > Your use of is subject to > > > > > > > > > > >______________________ >______________________ > > > >Your use of is subject to > > _______________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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