Asatoma sat gamaya
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
Mryityor ma amritam gamaya
Om
From the unreal (untruth) to the real (truth)
from darkness (tamas) to light (sattva)
from suffering to the nectar of immortality.
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
This is the verse I often close my yoga classes with. I chant it the way I learned from my Sivananda teachers, but here are a few of others for you to listen to.
First, a beautiful and meditative Ravi Shankar version from "Chants of India".
Now, some of you may recognize the next one from the final credits of "The Matrix".
WARNING - this video contains scenes from the movie which are violent and gross!
Please feel free to scroll to something more sattvic while you listen.
And finally, the sweet and lovely Deva Premal.
(Did I ever tell you that I met Deva? In 2009, at the Omega Ecstatic Chant weekend. I thanked her for Dakshina which I and many of my students at the time were listening to over and over and over again! She hugged me for a long time and Om'ed in my ear... ahhh... I pass that big hug and her beautiful smile on to you now!)
Let us reach enlightenment together! Jai!
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