Dear Buvana: When I read what you have written, the first thought that came to me was praying to Hanumaan. Parthasarathi swami has given a sloka and I can add another one on Hanumaan. Please allow me to give you the slokas in the proper sanskrit text. First, minor corrections to what Mr. Parthasarathy has written: Budhdhir balam, yaSoo, Dhairyam, nirbhayathvam, aroogathaa, ajaadyam, vaakpatuthvam cha Hanuumath smaraNaath bhaveeth|| Intellectual strength (or intellect and strength), fame, courage, fearlessness, good health, briskness, and eloquence in speech, (these) will happen with the recollection of (meditation on) Hanumaan! AsaaDhya saaDhaka Swaamin asaaDhyam thava kim vadha| Raama dhuutha, krupaa sinDhoo math kaaryam saaDhaya Prabhoo|| (Hey) Swaamin, Rama dhuuthaa, ocean of mercy, one who accomplishes impossible things, Tell (me) what is impossible for you, Oh Lord, enable me to accomplish my work! After these two slokas, I would chant "Sriram Jayaram, Jaya Jayaram" 28 times or as many times as possible. Special Note: I am using the pronounciation as in German, where each vowel has only one sound. Since they don't differentiate between short and long vowels, I am using 'a' for short and 'aa' for long, etc. a - aa, i - ii, u - uu, e - ee, ai, o - oo, ou ---- as in sanskrit or hindi script I am using T,D,L, and N for hard 't', 'd', 'l' and 'n' sounds. 'th' 'Th' and 'dh' 'Dh' for the th-based sounds. Likewise: 'k' 'kh','g' 'gh' for 'k' based sounds, 'ch' 'Ch' 'j' jh' for the 'ch' based sounds. 'p' 'ph','b','bh' for the 'p' based sounds, There are no sounds equivalent to 'nga' and 'gnya' which come at the end of 'k' and 'ch' series. These may be written as given, but perhaps in italics, to mean the two alphabets concerned. I would use 's' for regular 's' sound and 'S' for hard 's' as in yaSoo and 'sh' for similar sound as in 'ship'. I think there is one great misuse of the Tamil alphabet that is written as 'zh'. This should correspond to the very soft sound based on 'l' and it may be written as 'lh'. For example, it may be written as 'tamilh', not 'thamizh'. There are sounds based on 'zh' in Russian and it should be the soft sound based on 'z'. Writing this way, I keep the english style of using the capitol letters for the start of a sentence and for starting the name of a person. There are still some conflicts, such as in 'Lakshmi'. Here the 'L' is the soft 'l', and it is capitolized to indicate the name Lakshmi. However, in 'avaL' the 'L' is the hard 'l'. It will take some time to get used to this, but I find it lot easier to read the Sanskrit, Hindi and Tamil texts, written in english script, exactly the same way as they should be pronounced. Hope the above write-up helps and alleviates some of the problems, so one can come up with the precise pronounciation. Aravamudhan Raman Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA aravaram@xxxxxxxxx Parthasarathi BR <brp.sarathi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I can Suggest a Sloka on the GREAT Anjaneya Buddhir Balam yasodhairyam Nirbhayathvam marogatha Ajatyam Vakbadhuthvamsa Sa Hanoomath Smaranath bhava Which speaks of Great Qualities of the Rama Dhootha who did So many Good things --Most Esplly UNITED the DHIVYA THAMPATHIGAL Aandal thiruvadigale saranam Adiyen Parthasarathi ramanuja dasan On 3/3/06, buvana1975 <dbuvana@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can any of the learned members suggest a good shloka to be recited > daily for mental strength to handle a new and challenging job. > > Pranams > Buvana > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- Regards B.R.Parthasarathi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] SPONSORED LINKS Hinduism Fund raising Beliefs Religion --------------------------------- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "Oppiliappan" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/XUWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oppiliappan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Oppiliappan-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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