They are said to have arisen as a spontaneous response to the question “Who Am I”
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Translation below from Wikipedia:
Learning Support for Chanting the Mantra Puṣpam – Yopāṃ Puṣpaṃ Veda
– From the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka 1.22
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Learning Support for Chanting Āyātu Varadā
– Taittirīya Upaniṣad Chapter 4 verse 41 – Āyātu Varadā
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Learning Support for Chanting the Śraddhā Sūktam
– From the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa 2.8.8
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The Yoga Tārāvalī is a source often quoted within Aṣṭāṅga Yoga Communities because of the adoption of its opening verse (along with one of the traditional opening prayers to Patañjali) as their opening prayer dedications.
However it is a full text in itself, has 29 verses in total and is primarily a teaching on Haṭha Yoga. It was one of the Haṭha texts taught by T Krishnamacharya to TKV Desikachar, along with the more popular medieval Haṭha Pradīpikā and other lesser known Haṭha texts such as the Yoga Yājñavalkhya.
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Learning Support for Chanting the Closing Śānti Pataḥ for Taittirīya Upaniṣad Chapter 1 verse 12
– Śaṃ No Mitra
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Learning Support for Chanting the Opening Śānti Pataḥ for Taittirīya Upaniṣad Chapter 1 verse 1
– Śaṃ No Mitra
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Taken from the Taittirīya Upaniṣad Chapter Four verses 67-77, this Mantra was one of T Krishnamacharya’s personal favourites.
Sometimes known as an Ārogya Mantra or Mantra for Health, Krishnamacharya referred to it as the Śuci Mantra or Mantra for Purification and as such should be recited daily as part of our personal Sādhana.
According to Krishnamacharya the verses in the Śuci Mantra describe all the aspects of the human system, which when listed total 108.
The download link is for a normal speed version of the Śuci Mantra and is from my personal library of recordings from my studies with my teacher TKV Desikachar and he recorded it for me with one of his senior chant students Sujaya Sridhar.
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Taken from the Taittirīya Upaniṣad Chapter 4 verse 67-77, this Mantra was one of T Krishnamacharya’s personal favourites.
Sometimes known as an Ārogya Mantra or Mantra for Health, Krishnamacharya referred to it as the Śuci Mantra or Mantra for Purification and as such should be recited daily as part of our personal Sādhana.
According to Krishnamacharya the verses in the Śuci Mantra describe all the aspects of the human system, which when listed total 108.
The download link is for a slower speed (to help with learning) version of the Śuci Mantra and is from my personal library of recordings from my studies with my teacher TKV Desikachar and he recorded it for me with one of his senior chant students Sujaya Sridhar.
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A self-learning suggestion to help train your ear and tongue is offered below with a Yoga Sūtra chant offering an introduction to the first four verses in each of the four chapters.
The chanting here, recorded at a 2007 Postgraduate Programme Summer Retreat. is arranged in a developmental sequence that offers a progressive review of these 11 verses and now requires nearly 80 lines of chanting to complete what would normally be done in 12 lines.
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Śrī Yāmuna was the grandson of the 9th century sage Śrī Nāthamuni
and a forebear of T Krishnamacharya.
His 32 verse commentary on the Bhagavad Gītā is called the Gītārtha Saṃgraha.
It is seen as one of the most elegant and succinct available.
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Learning Support for Prārthanā Ślokam or Vedic Chanting Opening Prayers (short version).
– The Dhyānam Ślokam here were taught by T Krishnamacharya and transmitted to me by TKV Desikachar with the addition of a prayer that is a homage to Krishnamachrya.
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Traditionally chanting practice or textual study was preceded with an invocatory passage to help forge a link between the chanters, what is about to be chanted and its purport, as well as setting a context for textual study.
Thus each area of Study that the teacher and student were about to venture into were preceded by an appropriate Dhyānam Ślokam, or set of verses that specifically linked the chanters with the study.
Therefore if the opening verses would differ according to whether the focus was Veda Chanting or Study, the Upaniṣat, the Bhagavad Gītā, the Yoga Sūtra, etc.
The Dhyānam Ślokam here were taught by T Krishnamacharya and is the long form transmitted to me by TKV Desikachar which includes two prayers relating to the Krishnamacharya family lineage and spiritual tradition.
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Traditionally chanting practice or textual study was preceded with an invocatory passage to help forge a link between the chanters, what is about to be chanted and its purport, as well as setting a context for textual study.
Thus each area of Study that the teacher and student were about to venture into were preceded by an appropriate Dhyānam Ślokam, or set of verses that specifically linked the chanters with the study.
Therefore the opening verses would differ according to whether the focus was Veda Chanting or Study, the Upaniṣat, the Bhagavad Gītā, the Yoga Sūtra, etc.
The Dhyānam Ślokam here were taught by T Krishnamacharya and is the short form transmitted to me by TKV Desikachar with the addition of a prayer that is a homage to Krishnamachrya.
View or Download Vedic Chant Opening Prayers with Chant notations as a PDF
Traditionally textual study or chanting practice was preceded and ended with a Śānti Pataḥ or invocatory passage to help forge a link between the chanters, what is chanted and its purport, as well as setting a context for textual study.
This chant is where the teacher and the pupil chant together asking for harmonious co-operation within a context of keen and vigorous exploration of what is and especially what isn’t the self and the non-self. A topic fraught with potential resistances and self-illusion.
Learning Support for Chanting the Māheśvarāni Sūtra
– This Sūtra is said to contain all sounds of the Saṃskṛta Alphabet
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Learning Support for Chanting the Puruṣa Sūktam
– From the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka 3.12
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Learning Support for Chanting the Durgā Suktam
– From the Taittirīya Upaniṣad Chapter 4 verse 11-13
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