Fwd: Vedic chants enter the 'conservative' churches.

[Guest guest]

Namaste,Great Stuff!

 

Reminds me of Deva Premal and Miten somewhat-------Tony.

 

 

advaitin , " Ram Chandran " <RamChandran@a...>

wrote:

" Ravichandran Mahalingam " <mravichandran@h...

Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:42:31 -0500

 

Namaskaram:

 

On saturday June 18, 2005 at the Womens Choir of Dallas (near the SW

Medical Center in Dallas where JFK was pronounced dead), 2 girls

from

Reno, Nevada chanted the vedic mantras (with an accent though).

 

they call themselves Shanti Shanti group

(http://www.shantishanti.com/index2.php) the 'only' sanskrit rock

group in the US/world (if I can borrow CNN's word for the

continental

US). they started off with Sahana Bhavathu, Asatoma, and

Vakrathuda -

i was able to listen to each of the words clearly.

 

they have composed songs in english, most of which are translations

of the verses in the veda. they alternate between the vedic chants

and their 'english' songs they had composed. at the end of each

song/chant they talk about 'sanskrit' language

http://www.shantishanti.com/about_sanskrit.php.

 

they seem to be fluent in Sanskrit. they listed out the words that

are currently used in English that are derived from Sanskrit - i can

related to a lot of words that are of sanskrit origin myself. they

listed guru, pandit, and a whole range of words such as duo, tri,

and

whole list of words .. the one that caught me off guard -

'Stand' is derived from 'stha (thishta)' - the future forms use the

root 'stha' and the present tense uses 'thistha'. when I think

about the different words borrowed from Sanskrit - i could never

identify the word stand.

 

how they learnt sanskrit is in a book. the gist of it is mentioned

here: http://www.shantishanti.com/artists.php

 

They recited MahaNarayana Upanishad (though they announced it as

Narayana Upanishad) WITHOUT ANY READING material.

 

They also mentioned that vedas were scientific then - 5000+ years

ago and then recited: Brahma Jnanam Param....Aakashath

vayuuhu..vayor

agnihi - to explain

the origin of life. and those 2 girls thought it was pretty cool.

 

they mentioned that the energy generated from their chants, has made

their house green with trees and growth - the only house in that

neighborhood that has a lot of trees/greenery - particulary in

Nevada

state. sometimes, they do not even care to water the plants.

 

their mother came up on the stage (ayurvedic doctor - learnt it many

years ago) and also a friend of Deepak Chopra to tell

the 'confusion'

they went through before identifying the fact that the kids knew

sanskrit and had to 'encourage' them.

 

In the webpage, it is mentioned that while learning Sanskrit, Andrea

felt that she was remembering (recapitualing) what she had learnt

and

not learning a new stuff. I do not know whether they were some

sanskrit pundits in their previous life.

 

since they are learning the Devanagiri script, they composed a

song 'City of Angels'.

 

Overall, to 'bring' Sanskrit its recognition to the 'western world'

god gave them a great voice. her dad sings the engligh songs with

them and the whole family knows sanskrit.

 

PL. FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE who might be interested. it might not

bring good luck like those chain letters.

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[Guest guest]

advaitajnana , " Tony OClery " <aoclery>

wrote:

 

Namaste,Great Stuff!

 

Reminds me of Deva Premal and Miten somewhat-------Tony.

 

 

advaitin , " Ram Chandran " <RamChandran@a...>

wrote:

" Ravichandran Mahalingam " <mravichandran@h...

Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:42:31 -0500

 

Namaskaram:

 

On saturday June 18, 2005 at the Womens Choir of Dallas (near the SW

Medical Center in Dallas where JFK was pronounced dead), 2 girls

from

Reno, Nevada chanted the vedic mantras (with an accent though).

 

they call themselves Shanti Shanti group

(http://www.shantishanti.com/index2.php) the 'only' sanskrit rock

group in the US/world (if I can borrow CNN's word for the

continental

US). they started off with Sahana Bhavathu, Asatoma, and

Vakrathuda -

i was able to listen to each of the words clearly.

 

they have composed songs in english, most of which are translations

of the verses in the veda. they alternate between the vedic chants

and their 'english' songs they had composed. at the end of each

song/chant they talk about 'sanskrit' language

http://www.shantishanti.com/about_sanskrit.php.

 

they seem to be fluent in Sanskrit. they listed out the words that

are currently used in English that are derived from Sanskrit - i can

related to a lot of words that are of sanskrit origin myself. they

listed guru, pandit, and a whole range of words such as duo, tri,

and

whole list of words .. the one that caught me off guard -

'Stand' is derived from 'stha (thishta)' - the future forms use the

root 'stha' and the present tense uses 'thistha'. when I think

about the different words borrowed from Sanskrit - i could never

identify the word stand.

 

how they learnt sanskrit is in a book. the gist of it is mentioned

here: http://www.shantishanti.com/artists.php

 

They recited MahaNarayana Upanishad (though they announced it as

Narayana Upanishad) WITHOUT ANY READING material.

 

They also mentioned that vedas were scientific then - 5000+ years

ago and then recited: Brahma Jnanam Param....Aakashath

vayuuhu..vayor

agnihi - to explain

the origin of life. and those 2 girls thought it was pretty cool.

 

they mentioned that the energy generated from their chants, has made

their house green with trees and growth - the only house in that

neighborhood that has a lot of trees/greenery - particulary in

Nevada

state. sometimes, they do not even care to water the plants.

 

their mother came up on the stage (ayurvedic doctor - learnt it many

years ago) and also a friend of Deepak Chopra to tell

the 'confusion'

they went through before identifying the fact that the kids knew

sanskrit and had to 'encourage' them.

 

In the webpage, it is mentioned that while learning Sanskrit, Andrea

felt that she was remembering (recapitualing) what she had learnt

and

not learning a new stuff. I do not know whether they were some

sanskrit pundits in their previous life.

 

since they are learning the Devanagiri script, they composed a

song 'City of Angels'.

 

Overall, to 'bring' Sanskrit its recognition to the 'western world'

god gave them a great voice. her dad sings the engligh songs with

them and the whole family knows sanskrit.

 

PL. FORWARD THIS TO PEOPLE who might be interested. it might not

bring good luck like those chain letters.

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