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asato ma sad gamaya
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrtyor mamrtam gamaya

From delusion lead me to truth
From darkness lead me to light
From death lead me to immortality.

vidyam cavidyam ca yas
tad vedobhayam saha
avidyaya mrtyum tirtva
vidyayamrtam asnute

He who knows both knowledge and action,
with action overcomes death
and with knowledge reaches immortality

yasmin dyauh prthivi cantariksam otam
manah saha pranais ca sarvaih tam
evaikam janatha atmanam anya vacah
vimuncatha amrtasya esah setuh

In him are woven the sky and the earth
and all the regions of the air, and in him
rest the mind and all the powers of life.
Know him as the ONE and leave aside all
other words. He is the bridge of immortality.


indriyebhyah param mano
manasah sattvam uttamam
sattvad adhi mahan atma
mahato vyaktam uttamam

Beyond the senses is the mind,
and beyond the mind is reason, its essence.
Beyond reason is the Spirit in man,
and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe,
the evolver of all.

yada pancavatisthante
jnanani manasa saha
buddhis ca na vicestate
tam ahuh paramam gatim

When the five senses and the mind are still,
and reason itself rests in silence,
then begins the Path supreme.

bhidyate hrdayagranthis
chidyante sarvasamsayah
ksiyante casya karmani
tasmin drste paravare

And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence,
then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosened,
the doubts of the mind vanish,
and the law of Karma works no more

The lyrics are from "Neodämmerung", Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 1.3.28 Isa
Upanisad 11 Mundaka Upanisad 2.2.5 Katha Upanisad 6.7 Katha Upanisad 6.10
and Mundaka Upanisad 2.2.8

LEARN SANSKRIT!

That is all.

Ok

Date: 2003-11-27 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bakeneko.livejournal.com
Find me a Sanskrit class

Re: Ok

Date: 2003-11-27 09:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolven.livejournal.com
Workin' on it, kid.

Re: Ok

Date: 2003-11-29 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitsuchan.livejournal.com
There's one in Chicago... so you need to move up here!

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