Navaratri Sankalpa day 2 -And today we are doing /have done

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When you get this post, some of us would have already completed our

day 2 sankalpas and some like would still have to get back to their

altars.

 

Today we are doing/have done "Durga Sapta Shloki and Chapters 2 & 3" from the Chandi Path.

 

It was SOOO nice to hear from you all yesterday - Henny had said that

it was the first chanting for her, along with the MP3 CD ? But I

didnt understand the bit about the translation, cos it is already

translated into English, lieve Henny - are you translating it to

Dutch ?

Oh, btw, the single vertical bar at the end of a shloka is equivalent

to a comma and is called 'ardha matra' and the double bars are the

equivalent to a full stop and called "matra". Keep going dear Henny

and keep writing to let us know how your sankalpa is progressing. And

yes I LOVE chanting the Athargala stotram too.

 

Berijoy, too - first time for you. Kudos girl! And I know exactly what

you mean - I took a vow and I gotta finish it , no matter what. THAT'S

THE SPIRIT !!!!!! And we feel soooo great afterwards. I think thats

one of things that sankalpas & sadhana inculcate in us - the feeling

that we too can accomplish tasks that we set out to do. It is a very

liberating feeling.

 

Linda dear - I am sooo happy to know that you are feeling proud of

yourself because you completed day 1 successfully. And also, I too

take heart from the fact that someone somewhere is also doing the

sankalpa as I am .

 

Aravind - I know how it feels to encounter familiar passages. An oasis

in a desert. And btw, that verse that you came up with "Jai Shree Maa

Jai Swamiji Jai Amritanandamayi" while catchy and cute, is not

anushtup - it has to have 32 syllables to the verse. But, if you

keep at it , who knows what you will come up with

 

Stevie --- you and me both - did our sankalpas late in the evening. I

had been to the Mandir, and had chanting Seedha Chandi in the morning

with the group there, and Guru Gita in the evening - both at the fire.

And then of course some seva in between. So I got to do my group

sankalpa at 11 pm last night. And I am going back after this post to

do the sankalpa for today.

 

Glad to know that Ardis and Kalachandra are enjoying the sankalpa.

Ardis dear, if you can , it would be great if you keep us posted on

your fast too.

 

Chris - I hope that your honeymoon with the Goddess never ends. If you

find any asuras interrupting the honeymoon, hope you will hand them

over to her.

 

I was wondering how our other friends were doing. Grace is probably on

her third day of sankalpa . It will be great if every one can "touch

base" to keep the momentum alive.

Thank you again and again to Sankar for his posts on the Chandi. Thank

you Srini for your inspiration.

 

Rick, dear brother, thank you for sharing on your first Chandi. I

remember reading out one of your posts to Shree Maa in 2003 and

mentioning that you were trying to memorize and Maa was SOOO happy.

In fact, at the Mandir, one of the things that Maa encourages is for

her disciples and devotees to memorize pujas and mantras and passages

from many books. This is another way of keeping our bhava alive.

 

Dear Loving Maa,

In my humble opinion , the fact that we do sadhana in private or in

public - is just another embellishment to the ego. What *I* know for

sure is that *DOING* the sadhana is important. Atleast , in my

present stage of evolution that is how it seems to me.

 

I wanted to share a tid bit from the Mandir. Usually I clean (with

help from friends) the temple on Sundays. Normally, Swamiji finishes

his 2.5 hour morning puja early , by 8 am or so, takes a break and

comes back to chant the Chandi at 10 am. He then chants and expands

his asan to be done by 1 pm. Yesterday, he started at 10.30 and

chanted with samput and didnt get up until 4 , and I believe he wants

to extend and expand as much as possible during Navaratri. When I

peeked in the temple during his chanting, the vibrations were so

thick that I was loath to disturb the atmosphere with something as

mundane as cleaning. When I looked at him in the evening, he had

such a quiet air, a look that said to me "I am not here , I am

elsewhere" .

 

And of course he is fasting too...

 

Incredible Incredible Swamiji !

 

Well, off I post this , and onward to my sadhana for today.

Jai Maa

Nanda

 

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Dear Nanda,

I finished the 3rd days sankalpa and because it was so short I added

Chapter 5 which I love...this will also help with Saturday which is a

day filled with family commitments. I hope it is ok that I add to the

shorter days to shorten the chanting on the final morning. All is fine

though because I am ahead of all I do feel out of sinq with the group.

Such is life.

Jai Maa and Jai Swamiji

Grace

 

On 12/04/2005, at 11:46 AM, Nanda wrote:

> Dear All,

> When you get this post, some of us would have already completed our

> day 2 sankalpas and some like would still have to get back to their

> altars.

>  

> Today we are doing/have done "Durga Sapta Shloki and Chapters 2 & 3"

> from the Chandi Path.

>  

> It was SOOO nice to hear from you all yesterday - Henny had said that

> it was the first chanting for her, along with the MP3 CD ? But I didnt

> understand the bit about the translation, cos it is already translated

> into English, lieve Henny - are you translating it to Dutch ?

> Oh, btw, the single vertical bar at the end of a shloka is equivalent

> to a comma and is called 'ardha matra' and the double bars are the

> equivalent to a full stop and called "matra". Keep going dear Henny

> and keep writing to let us know how your sankalpa is progressing. And

> yes I LOVE chanting the Athargala stotram too.

>  

> Berijoy, too - first time for you. Kudos girl! And I know exactly what

> you mean - I took a vow and I gotta finish it , no matter what. THAT'S

> THE SPIRIT !!!!!! And we feel soooo great afterwards. I think thats

> one of things that sankalpas & sadhana inculcate in us - the feeling

> that we too can accomplish tasks that we set out to do. It is a very

> liberating feeling.

>  

> Linda dear - I am sooo happy to know that you are feeling proud of

> yourself because you completed day 1 successfully. And also, I too

> take heart from the fact that someone somewhere is also doing the

> sankalpa as I am . 

>  

> Aravind - I know how it feels to encounter familiar passages. An oasis

> in a desert. And btw, that verse that you came up with "Jai Shree Maa

> Jai Swamiji Jai Amritanandamayi" while catchy and cute, is not

> anushtup  - it has to have 32 syllables to the verse. But, if you keep

> at it , who knows what you will come up with

>  

> Stevie --- you and me both - did our sankalpas late in the evening. I

> had been to the Mandir, and had chanting Seedha Chandi in the morning

> with the group there, and Guru Gita in the evening - both at the fire.

> And then of course some seva in between. So I got to do my group

> sankalpa at 11 pm last night. And I am going back after this post to

> do the sankalpa for today.

>  

> Glad to know that Ardis and Kalachandra are enjoying the sankalpa.

> Ardis dear, if you can , it would be great if you keep us posted on

> your fast too.

>  

> Chris - I hope that your honeymoon with the Goddess never ends. If you

> find any asuras interrupting the honeymoon, hope you will hand them

> over to her.

>  

> I was wondering how our other friends were doing. Grace is probably on

> her third day of sankalpa . It will be great if every one can "touch

> base" to keep the momentum alive.

> Thank you again and again to Sankar for his posts on the Chandi. Thank

> you Srini for your inspiration.

>  

> Rick, dear brother, thank you for sharing on your first Chandi. I

> remember reading out one of your posts to Shree Maa in 2003 and

> mentioning that you were trying to memorize and Maa was SOOO happy. 

> In fact, at the Mandir, one of the things that Maa encourages is for

> her disciples and devotees to memorize pujas and mantras and passages

> from many books. This is another way of keeping our bhava alive.

>  

> Dear Loving Maa,

> In my humble opinion , the fact that we do sadhana in private or in

> public - is just another embellishment to the ego. What *I* know for

> sure  <01.gif> is that *DOING* the sadhana is important. Atleast , in

> my present stage of evolution that is how it seems to me.

>  

> I wanted to share a tid bit from the Mandir. Usually I clean (with

> help from friends) the temple on Sundays. Normally, Swamiji finishes

> his 2.5 hour morning puja early , by 8 am or so, takes a break and

> comes back to chant the Chandi at 10 am. He then chants and expands

> his asan to be done by 1 pm. Yesterday, he started at 10.30 and

> chanted with samput and didnt get up until 4 , and I believe he wants

> to extend and expand as much as possible during Navaratri. When I

> peeked in the temple during his chanting, the vibrations were so thick

> that I was loath to disturb the atmosphere with something as mundane

> as cleaning. When I looked at him in the evening,  he had such a quiet

> air, a look that said to me "I am not here , I am elsewhere" .

>  

> And of course he is fasting too...

>  

> Incredible Incredible Swamiji !

>  

> Well, off I post this , and onward to my sadhana for today.

> Jai Maa

> Nanda

>  

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Dear Grace,

If you want to add to the shorter days, it might be better that you

add the next chapter in sequence.

 

You are our torch bearer , setting the tone for all of us. I think you

or is it Jay that is most ahead of us?

 

I just finished my second day sankalpa and killed all the Asuras in

chapter 2 and the EGO in chapter 3 - Hope they NEVER come back <grin>

 

Jai Maa

Nanda

 

 

 

 

, Grace Green <gmgreen108@w...>

wrote:

> Dear Nanda,

> I finished the 3rd days sankalpa and because it was so short I added

> Chapter 5 which I love...this will also help with Saturday which is

a

> day filled with family commitments. I hope it is ok that I add to

the

> shorter days to shorten the chanting on the final morning. All is

fine

> though because I am ahead of all I do feel out of sinq with the

group.

> Such is life.

> Jai Maa and Jai Swamiji

> Grace

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neat to see all these responses in one place.

 

finished late again, 10:15 pm our time.

 

om om om. nobody ever promised us a rose garden.

 

, Nanda <chandimaakijai> wrote:

> Dear All,

> When you get this post, some of us would have already completed our

day 2 sankalpas and some like would still have to get back to their

altars.

>

> Today we are doing/have done "Durga Sapta Shloki and Chapters 2 & 3"

from the Chandi Path.

>

> It was SOOO nice to hear from you all yesterday - Henny had said

that it was the first chanting for her, along with the MP3 CD ? But I

didnt understand the bit about the translation, cos it is already

translated into English, lieve Henny - are you translating it to

Dutch ?

> Oh, btw, the single vertical bar at the end of a shloka is

equivalent to a comma and is called 'ardha matra' and the double bars

are the equivalent to a full stop and called "matra". Keep going dear

Henny and keep writing to let us know how your sankalpa is

progressing. And yes I LOVE chanting the Athargala stotram too.

>

> Berijoy, too - first time for you. Kudos girl! And I know exactly

what you mean - I took a vow and I gotta finish it , no matter what.

THAT'S THE SPIRIT !!!!!! And we feel soooo great afterwards. I think

thats one of things that sankalpas & sadhana inculcate in us - the

feeling that we too can accomplish tasks that we set out to do. It is

a very liberating feeling.

>

> Linda dear - I am sooo happy to know that you are feeling proud of

yourself because you completed day 1 successfully. And also, I too

take heart from the fact that someone somewhere is also doing the

sankalpa as I am .

>

> Aravind - I know how it feels to encounter familiar passages. An

oasis in a desert. And btw, that verse that you came up with "Jai

Shree Maa Jai Swamiji Jai Amritanandamayi" while catchy and cute, is

not anushtup - it has to have 32 syllables to the verse. But, if you

keep at it , who knows what you will come up with

>

> Stevie --- you and me both - did our sankalpas late in the evening.

I had been to the Mandir, and had chanting Seedha Chandi in the

morning with the group there, and Guru Gita in the evening - both at

the fire. And then of course some seva in between. So I got to do my

group sankalpa at 11 pm last night. And I am going back after this

post to do the sankalpa for today.

>

> Glad to know that Ardis and Kalachandra are enjoying the sankalpa.

Ardis dear, if you can , it would be great if you keep us posted on

your fast too.

>

> Chris - I hope that your honeymoon with the Goddess never ends. If

you find any asuras interrupting the honeymoon, hope you will hand

them over to her.

>

> I was wondering how our other friends were doing. Grace is probably

on her third day of sankalpa . It will be great if every one can

"touch base" to keep the momentum alive.

> Thank you again and again to Sankar for his posts on the Chandi.

Thank you Srini for your inspiration.

>

> Rick, dear brother, thank you for sharing on your first Chandi. I

remember reading out one of your posts to Shree Maa in 2003 and

mentioning that you were trying to memorize and Maa was SOOO happy.

In fact, at the Mandir, one of the things that Maa encourages is for

her disciples and devotees to memorize pujas and mantras and passages

from many books. This is another way of keeping our bhava alive.

>

> Dear Loving Maa,

> In my humble opinion , the fact that we do sadhana in private or in

public - is just another embellishment to the ego. What *I* know for

sure is that *DOING* the sadhana is important. Atleast , in my

present stage of evolution that is how it seems to me.

>

> I wanted to share a tid bit from the Mandir. Usually I clean (with

help from friends) the temple on Sundays. Normally, Swamiji finishes

his 2.5 hour morning puja early , by 8 am or so, takes a break and

comes back to chant the Chandi at 10 am. He then chants and expands

his asan to be done by 1 pm. Yesterday, he started at 10.30 and

chanted with samput and didnt get up until 4 , and I believe he wants

to extend and expand as much as possible during Navaratri. When I

peeked in the temple during his chanting, the vibrations were so thick

that I was loath to disturb the atmosphere with something as mundane

as cleaning. When I looked at him in the evening, he had such a quiet

air, a look that said to me "I am not here , I am elsewhere" .

>

> And of course he is fasting too...

>

> Incredible Incredible Swamiji !

>

> Well, off I post this , and onward to my sadhana for today.

> Jai Maa

> Nanda

>

>

>

>

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Nanda,

Of course I added the next chapter. Chapter 5 came after day 3 's

chapter 4. I was more than a day ahead of you because I chant in the

morning and you are doing the group sankalpa in the evening.

I guess you missed my comments on the first day or rather was so

shaktied out from all that is going on that you thought I had not

written...but if you check the mail you will see that I did respond.

I am glad your ego was slain .. mine is not only risen again but

is blowing the winds all out of proportion.

Take care

Grace

12/04/2005, at 12:44 PM, Nanda wrote:

>

>

> Dear Grace,

> If you want to add to the shorter days, it might be better that you

> add the next chapter in sequence.

>

> You are our torch bearer , setting the tone for all of us. I think you

> or is it Jay that is most ahead of us?

>

> I just finished my second day sankalpa and killed all the Asuras in

> chapter 2 and the EGO in chapter 3 - Hope they NEVER come back <grin>

>

> Jai Maa

> Nanda

>

>

>

>

> , Grace Green <gmgreen108@w...>

> wrote:

> > Dear Nanda,

> > I finished the 3rd days sankalpa and because it was so short I added

> > Chapter 5 which I love...this will also help with Saturday which is

> a

> > day filled with family commitments.  I hope it is ok that  I add to

> the

> > shorter days to shorten the chanting on the final morning.  All is

> fine

> >   though because I am ahead of all I do feel out of sinq with the

> group.

> >   Such is life.

> > Jai Maa and Jai Swamiji

> > Grace

>

>

>

>

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