Story : What Happens, When a Devotee Mispronounces the Sanskrit Sloka ?

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Lord Sri Krishna is infinitely compassionate,merciful and

loving.

 

Just as a mother understand what a toddler is trying

to say with incoherent sounds, so also the Supreme Lord

Sri Krishna, the all knowing one, will perceive what the

devotee is trying to convey.

 

If the devotee is sincere, the supreme will bless with

the desired faculties to pronounce in a way pleasing to

the Lord and with correct pronunciation etc.

 

Those who sing in ecstasy need not be concerned at

all, about pronounciation or rhythm.

Sincerity and devotion is the criteria, not the

oscillation of molecules around us.

 

--- MKRaghavendra wrote:

 

 

> Hare Krishna,

>

> What happens when we learn some sanskrit slokas

> through assettes/CDs, or any such self-learning

> mechanism, and actually end up mispronouncing a

> sloka ?

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> Does it have no negative impact? Reminds me of a

> story that goes like this :

>

> There was this man who used to circle around this

> Banyan tree that

> had a Sriman Narayana's moorthy under it.

>

> The man, being illiterate, mispronounces the

> Sanskrit sloka, that

> actually means King of all Kings, and ends up saying

> " King of all

> Trees " .

>

> Another passer-by who goes that way, who is learned,

> is shocked and

> tells this man that he has been doing a grave

> mistake for all these

> days and that he should immediately repent to

> Bhagavan Narayana for

> his mistake. The simpleton is shocked to learn this

> and he is quite

> terrified about the consequences.

>

> That night, Bhagavan Narayana appears in the man's

> dream and says

> with compassion " Don't worry, my child, you did not

> recite the Sloka

> wrongly. I am after all the King of trees too!! If

> I am the king of

> all things, I am the king of trees too, right? "

>

> So that brings to the question, what happens when

> Sanskrit sloka is

> recited wrongly by a faithful devotee because of

> ignorance?

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> OM NAMO NARAYANAYA !!!!

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> M.K.Raghavendra

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