To Kaliananda and all about Falling Asleep while Chanting

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I wrote (in response to falling asleep while chanting):

P.S. After a very difficult week, I feel I will fall asleep and my

head will land on my keyboard, so perhaps I should go rest and do

some chanting in the meanwhile.

Dear Kaliananda and all ~ I crashed again today ... complete physical

exhaustion ... and had to go to bed. I chanted two malas for Sukra

and then two for Rahu. Then I started on Ketu. I kept loosing my

place, so then I would go back a bit and start over. Finally I was

startled awake because I had dropped my mala ... so, okay, I told

myself, put the mala away, go to sleep, chant some more later. But in

the midst of my exhaustion and the increase in pain level and other

symptoms, the chanting was very soothing, and nodding off while

chanting for Ketu felt, in some way, very healing to me. Jai the

Planets ~ Linda