Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Eating enjoyment

Finally found an excellent site for devangari script translation: http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/online/#help
Now I'll be able to incorporate sanskrit into this here blog.

So I just started working with this new mantra this morning, I spent about 10 minutes in the car chanting aloud.
I picked it up from Namadeva's Lalita chapter in Shakti Mantras. He indicates that it meens "Salutations to She who has the experience of perpetual bliss". Doing a little more research it's apparent that means "joy" and means "enjoyment". I'm not sure how it changes with the longer i ending, so I'll put it up on Audarya and see if anyone else knows. It's also synonymous with the "eating" word.
This mantra salutes Lalita (whose name also means joy) and is antithetical to depression. Chanting it in the car certainly kept me happy, it's a short mantra and sets up a good rhythm quickly, particularly with all the tongue on the teeth action in the last few sounds.

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