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Taking up a new journey to study Geeta. Also, to share my insights and love for the Sanskrit language and its shlokas (verses). Not that I am an expert on the subject, but I am one of those who have time and again felt the beauty of the language…and I wonder if this sharing would entice some young seekers to revisit the roots of this Bharat- Bhoomi…the land of yoga.

The land has certainly given birth to this language which was much adored by the sages and the ancients. And as one of the travelers on the path of yoga, I would start with this small Sanskrit verse

कर-चरणकृतं वाक्कायजं कर्मजं वा
श्रवणनयनजं वा मानसं वापराधम,
विहितमविहितं वा सर्वमेतत्क्षमस्व,
जय-जय करुणाब्धे, श्री महादेव शम्भो॥'

O, Lord Shiva! Please forgive my wrong actions committed by me

knowingly or unknowingly through my hands, feet, speech, body

or through any organ of action; or through the ears, eyes (any

organ of perception) or through the mind. May you forgive all

sinful actions committed by me. O, Great Shiva! Glory, Glory

to you! You are the Surging Ocean of Compassion!

 

Very recently I was listening to this shloka somewhere... and found its recital very soothing to the ears…and so, this has been on my mind these days and I feel like memorizing it for the beauty of the verse, the sound and the rhyme, and of course the meaning :).

Revisiting Bhagwat Geeta by studying its shlokas --14 per week so as to finish all the chapters in one year's time. taking it slowly in order to get us some time to ponder, reflect, and meditate on what Shri Krishna has said. And while I am blogging this, week two is already going on.


p.s. the blog will have one more author --a friend who encouraged me to take up this journey. His target is to memorize the shlokas-- again 14 per week.


-seeker


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