RE: International Childhood Cancer Day
Sadgurunath Maharaj Ki Jay
Japa and chanting play a huge part in my life.
The English language is a very mechanical language. Great for operating machinery and understanding basic instructions.
I feel that Sanskrit was written for the benefit of all, constructed with a full gnosis of sound, and how to imbue it into the speaker, accurately.
How much more thought would you put into what you're about to say, if you knew the sounds you were about to make were imprinting on your person?
Much like our posts becomes a part of the blockchain :P
A good 2 hour chant in Sanskrit, always reaffirms for me that this language was sung, not spoken.
Will it bring a dead child back to life?
I don't know. Do you?
What it will do though, is reconnect you to a bigger picture, a much better place to process grief and confusion :)
Peace.
Well, as a non-native speaker of English I don´t feel it to be very mechanical but rather intuitive and associative, at least compared to German, my mother tongue, which is great for creating exact definitions of the most complicated stuff, but not the best language for singing for example, with its staccato intonation.
Somewhere I read though, that Sanskrit would be the most logical language in the world, most perfect for computer programming. Who knows?
I think the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is more for the wellbeing of the bereaved than the deceased, offering solace and consolation, easing the pain of loss, calming the mind.
Yes, I believe all bereavement is about the loss to the self, not the deceased. We can only try to understand their state, if only we weren't so transfixed on the loss.
Peace.