Weekly page from Hindu Dharma: Methods of Chanting

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This week's page from Hindu Dharma is

"Methods of Chanting" from "The Vedas" at

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part5/chap10.htm,

which is attached with this email. Here are

the first few lines from this page:

Our forefathers devised a number of methods to

preserve the unwritten Vedas in their original

form, to safeguard their tonal and verbal purity.

They laid down rules to make sure that not a

syllable was changed in chanting, not a svara was

altered. In this way they ensured that the full

benefits were derived from intoning the mantras.

They fixed the time taken to enunciate each

syllable of a word and called this unit of time or

time... (see attachment for more)

 

Next week we will send you the page

"Word of God" from "The Vedas".

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