strange fact
22 March 2006 15:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amulI pray every day. I have been pretty regular about it for almost a year now. Usually, I just stick with the Gayatri Mantra, which is a sort of functional equivalent to the Lord's Prayer, as near as I can tell. Traditionally, you repeat the Gayatri Mantra three times, once for body, mind and soul, and end it with "Om, shanti, shanti, shanti!" (functionally equivalent to "amen," I think). Shanti means "peace" and again you say it three times for the three aspects of the human life.
This is a prayer that I'm extremely familiar with, it was the first one I was ever taught, and I even used to lead prayer on Sundays back before high school. I've said it a couple of thousand times over my life, at least.
Yet, ever since the whatever you call it last Monday, I've been unable to keep track of the repetition. I falter, unsure if I'm on the second repetition or the third. I even find myself unable to properly count out the Shantis, sometimes sounding it out four or even five times.
I have no idea what that is about, but it's messing with my relationship to God, and it's very disconcerting.
This is a prayer that I'm extremely familiar with, it was the first one I was ever taught, and I even used to lead prayer on Sundays back before high school. I've said it a couple of thousand times over my life, at least.
Yet, ever since the whatever you call it last Monday, I've been unable to keep track of the repetition. I falter, unsure if I'm on the second repetition or the third. I even find myself unable to properly count out the Shantis, sometimes sounding it out four or even five times.
I have no idea what that is about, but it's messing with my relationship to God, and it's very disconcerting.
