The breath with a seed in it
Something true, carried on the out-breath, at a length the lungs can hold. Three to begin with. More as we go.
A request for the mind to be set moving, made to the light that moves everything else.
chant it →2the fruit that comes away from the stemMahāmṛtyuñjayaLet me come away from what holds me the way a ripe fruit comes away from the stem, and not away from life.
chant it →3what is said before the learning and after itŚāntiMay we be protected together, nourished together, and work together, and may we not come to dislike each other.
chant it →4given to a tired man in the middle of a fightĀditya HṛdayamA hymn handed to Rama when he was exhausted on the field and could not see the end of it.
recite it →5the sound is the practiceAigiri NandiniTwenty one verses built out of rhyme upon rhyme, where the sound does as much work as the sense.
recite it →A verse of the Gītā can be carried the same way, and will be, when that part of the site is ready. These three are here because most people already know them.