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August Gītā: 7.27
One of the Gita’s greatest strengths is its lack of condemnation of the human condition…
July Gītā: 12.2
My children went to a Steiner school where the education follows the hands then the heart and…
June Gītā: 2.11
This very difficult verse is said to be the beginning of Krishna’s teaching.…
May Gītā: 11.45
One of the most beautiful things about the Gita is that for every word of quantum level wisdom, every glimpse of…
April Gītā: 10.20
In this sloka, Krishna declares he is the Ātman, the eternal soul that lives within all sentient beings…
March Gītā: 9.30
Krishna is demonstrating the potency of the path of Bhakti and that any person may be transformed with the right spiritual intention…
February Gītā: 5.5
For all its antiquity there is still something revolutionary about the Bhagavad Gita. The idea that there is no hierarchy…
January Gītā: 10.20
This verse is useful in several ways. Firstly the Sanskrit is simple and easy to learn, secondly it introduces a name for Arjuna…
ॐ
वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ ।
निर्विघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्व्दा ॥
Oṃ vakra-tuṇḍa mahā-kāya sūrya-koṭi sama-prabha |
nirvighnaṃ kuru me deva sarva-karyeṣu sarva-dā ||
O Gaṇeśa, god with the curved trunk, of great stature,
Whose brilliance is equal to ten million suns.
Grant me freedom from obstacles,
In all things, at all times.”
Gaṇeśa Mantra
Translated by Zoë Slatoff
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