--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "suziezuzie" <msilver1951@> > wrote: > > > > Can someone recommend a good version of the Guru Gita? > > > > The Saint James version always did it for me. >
Here's some shlokas, or whatever, from the beginning of that giitaa: achintyaavyaktaruupaaya nirguNaaya gaNaatmane | samastajagadaadhaaramuurtaye brahmaNe namaH || 1|| R^ishhaya uuchuH | suuta suuta mahaapraaGYa nigamaagamapaaragam.h | gurusvaruupamasmaakaM bruuhi sarvamalaapaham.h || 2|| yasya shravaNamaatreNa dehii duHkhaadvimuchyate | yena maargeNa munayaH sarvaGYatvaM prapedire || 3|| (The infamous B.Mullquist would "translate" that like this: By merely hearing [shravaNa-maatreNa] of which [yasya] the Embodied Soul [?? dehii] is liberated [vimuchyate] from suffering [duHkhaat]; by(?) which [yena] road [?maargeNa] /munis/ [munayaH] attain [?prapedire*] all-knowingness [sarva-jñatvam]) *) No idea what the fvck that strange form is of the verb prapad; it might be some perfect tense form, but Sanskrit perfect tense is often to be translated to the corresponding present tense form, like in "yas tan na *veda*" from the "Rco akSare".
