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Podcast: Mantra, Kirtan and Stotra: Sanskrit Chants
Episode: Song of Eighteen-Ities chanted by Chandra Cohen and a seminar group
Description: Chandra Cohen and his Vedanta group sing a Kirtan written by Swami Sivananda in a Saturday evening Satsang at Yoga Vidya in Bad Meinberg. You can find this Kirtan in the Yoga Vidya Kirtanheft under No. 55. Further explanations to this Kirtan can be found online in the Yoga Vidya Kirtanheft Blog at Song of Eighteenities.
Here is the text to sing along:
Shri Ram Jaya Ram
Jaya Jaya Ram Om
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity
Sincerity, simplicity, veracity
equanimity, fixity, non-irritability
adaptibility, humility, tenacity
integrity, nobility, magnanimity
charity, generosity, purity.
Practise daily these eighteen 'ities'
you will soon attain immortality.
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