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Podcast: Mantra, Kirtan and Stotra: Sanskrit Chants
Episode: Von guten Mächten chanted by Lisa
Description: Lisa sings the spiritual song "Von guten Mächten" (Of Good Powers) in a Saturday evening Satsang - a spiritual poem by the Protestant theologian and NS resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer - written in December 1944 in Gestapo prison. This is Bonhoeffer's last preserved theological text before his execution on April 9, 1945. To sing along, here is the text that you can also find in Yoga Vidya Kirtanheft under number 512:
Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben,
behütet und getröstet wunderbar,
so will ich diese Tage mit euch leben
und mit euch gehen in ein neues Jahr.
Von guten Mäch...