strange fact

[amul]

I 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.

Comments

[roniliquidity.livejournal.com]

Sure, feel free to email me.

I haven't wanted to say too much, I actually haven't hung around you enough to say what you're like on a regular basis, so I don't want to color things with an inaccurrate opinion.

Though I will say the commenter that seems to think he speaks for an entire social group sounded like a choad.