Congratulations to Henny ... and your personal sankalpas

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Add 5 more for me. Didn't have a great deal of time, but even with

the kids jumping on me and not being 100% on the rhythm or familiar

with all the particular Sanskrit, it still went okay. At least I

managed that much for now. Have to get back to work.

I found a really nice online recording of both the Ganesh

Atharvasirsham and the Phalshruti (though it was a little longer than

ours and ever so slightly different). It really helped me learn at

least one rhythm that felt good. It is on the site for Shree

Siddhivinayak Ganapati Temple in India. Really beautiful murti.

Their homepage is http://www.siddhivinayak.org and their bhajan

download page is http://www.siddhivinayak.org/bhajanaudio.htm

Another nice one just of the Athavasirsham is at http://www.adwaitjoshi.com/atharvashirsha.php

One other that I didn't particularly care because it was too hard to

follow for me, has both parts and is at

http://www.ashtavinayak.net/atharvashirsh.php

I had another recent recording of it from Anandi Ma and Dileepji on

their Mantras for Abundance CD. They do it very slow, which was

really nice and powerful. I did it that way once with the recording

and then added our Phalshruti, as theirs was slightly different and a

little shorter.

Here is one question for Swamiji that I hope you can pass on Nanda Ji:

I know that both quality of the repetition and the number of

repetitions is important but which is more important? Would it be

more beneficial to chant one, slow, repetition with serious

concentration as opposed to lets say 11 repetitions faster without

the same quality of concentration?

Jai Ganapati Mahadev! Jai Maa!

Surya

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Nanda

Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:56 AM

Congratulations to Henny ... and your personal sankalpas

Dear Henny,Congratulations to you for crossing a personal total of 108

repetitions of Ganesh Atharvasirsham (you have done 126 as of the last

count and will be updated with my next installment of count

status)Wondering who will be next to cross a big number .. (Muktimaa

, Mausumi ... anyone ?)Your big number could be 11 or 21 or 27 or 36

or 54 or 108 or MORE !!!I look forward to hearing from you what

number you are aiming for ...JAI GANESHNanda