So what is this mysterious chanting we do before Practice? Does this affect my faith? What does the opening chant really mean? Should I chant it if I don’t know what it means? Hopefully the following translation will try to answer these questions. The translation is taken from a talk by Arvind Pare (https://www.facebook.com/GangaInGokulam) which I was fortunate to attend on my last trip to Mysore 2014. Arvind had many insightful stories and commentaries which help to give the chant a greater meaning. So I’ve included some of them here. The original text is written in Sanskrit but I’ve used the English transliteration below. For [……..]

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