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EPISODE · Jun 27, 2025 · 5 MIN

Asato ma sad gamaya with Bernd

from Mantra, Kirtan and Stotra: Sanskrit Chants · host Sukadev Bretz - Joy and Inspiration through Mantra Chanting

Bernd is chanting the mantra Asato ma sad gamaya during a saturday evening satsang at Yoga Vidya in Bad Meinberg, Germany. More mantra kirtan mp3 recordings can be listen at https://blog.yoga-vidya.de/category/podcast/mantra/ - or as videos at my.yoga-vidya.org/members/Mantras/videos Here is the full text in simplified transcription: Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya Mrityor Manritan Gamaya “Asato Ma Sat Gamaya” is a mantra from the Upanishads, it is a mantra that comes from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1.3.28, it is a mantra that also belongs to the Shanti Mantras, i.e. to the peace mantras, and it is also a prayer where we ask to be able to experience the highest. “Asato Ma Sat Gamaya” means: ”Lead me and lead us from Asat, from untruth, to Sat, to truth.” Ma means “me”. “Guide me, Ma, from unreality to reality.” Gamaya can be translated as “lead me to”, but you can also say “let me go there” or “let us go there”, “let us go from the unreal to the real”. “Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya. May I go and may I be guided, may you guide me, from Tamas, from darkness, to Jyoti, to light.” “Mrityor Mamritam Gamaya. And may I also go forth and may I be guided, may you lead me from mrityo, from death, to amrita, to immortality, to the nectar of immortality.”

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