Nine-year-old Aryama Shukla, a multi-talented girl, has made it to England’s World Record of Excellence by reciting all shlokas of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit in just two hours and five minutes. She remembers 2,250 Sanskrit verses
Aryama, who achieved the feat on Gita Jayanti and shared the story of her achievements. A resident of Triveni Nagar in Lucknow, she remembers around 2,250 Sanskrit verses. She recited the verses fluently. Aryana was awarded by the World Record of Excellence after she recited 700 verses of Shrimad Bhagwat Gita in two hours five minutes and 20 seconds.
Aryama received no training or help.
Aryama achieved the feat during a Gita recitation organized on Gita Jayanti at Ramakrishna Math located at IT College Square. She said she did not take any training to memorize these verses. Aryama said she had been to the event in 2022 and had been practicing the verses by listening to them since then.
Apart from Bhagwat Geeta, Aryama also remembers other Hindu scriptures and the shlokas in them. She said whenever she faced any issues during her practice, she took the help of her mother Anshika and father Vivek Shukla. She learned to pronounce difficult words of Sanskrit from them
Aryama is also an academic achiever and is the topper of her class. The youngster said she has not taken any coaching on Sanskrit and nobody has taught her the language. Sanskrit is not being taught in her school either.
Aryama, apart from the 700 verses of Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta, remembers a total of more than 2,250 Sanskrit verses. She has memorized several mahamantras including Mahishasura Mardini Stotram, Shri Kanakadhara Stotram, Shri Vishnu Sahasranama, Shri Ram Stuti, Saraswati Vandana, Shiva Rakshastotram, Shiva Tandava, Shri Ram Rakshastotram, Shri Ramashtakam, Krishnashtakam, Madhurashtakam, Shri Ganeshpancharatnam, Navadurga Stotram, Shri Hari Stotram, Ashtalakshmi Stotram, Rudrashtakam, Shivashtakam, Nirvana Shatakam, Shiv Shadakshar Stotram, Shri Ram Sahastranam, and entire Shridurga Saptashati.
Aryama has met and has been lauded by eminent personalities including Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandi Ben Patel, Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is a synthesis of Vedic and non-Vedic traditions, reconciling renunciation with action by arguing that they are inseparable; while following one’s dharma, one should not consider oneself to be the agent of action, but attribute all one’s actions to God.
The Bhagavad Gita is a poem written in the Sanskrit language with 18 chapters in total . The 700 verses are structured into several ancient Indian poetic meters, with the principal being the Anushthubh chhanda. Each shloka consists of a couplet, thus the entire text consists of 1,400 lines.
The Bhagavad Gita is a philosophical dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna within the Mahabharata, addressing concepts of duty and spirituality, while the Shrimad Bhagavatam is a narrative Purana that primarily focuses on the life and teachings of Lord Krishna, emphasizing devotion and mythology.
The Gita teaches us that anger is born from desire and that one can control desires through self-discipline and detachment. By cultivating a sense of detachment, one can learn to let go of attachments to external things and find peace within.
Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist, always carried a copy of ‘Gita’ with him . He believed: “When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow.
The Bhagavad Gita is a map and a guidebook. It gives us a systematic overview of the territory [of life], shows various approaches to the summit with their benefits and pitfalls, offers recommendations, tells us what to pack and what to leave behind.
The Bhagavad Gita, one of the most important yogic texts ever written, asks and answers some key questions about how to live life fully. Each day upon waking one has a choice. Which will one decides to listen to : our true and higher self, or our ego? The days one decides to listen to the true Self are usually the ones where one feels that one is living one’s purpose and honoring one’s true nature. The days one decides to listen to the ego are usually the ones where one faces the most difficulty, and life can seem a little like a battlefield.
The Bhagavad Gita is one of India’s ancient texts and is derived from the epic poem, The Mahabharata. This still stands as the longest poem ever written, with over 100,000 shlokas or over 200,000 verses. Though only a part of The Mahabharata.
As said, the Bhagavad Gita is a part of the Indian epic Mahabharata and contains many insightful lessons, teachings, and rules and morals of conduct for people. The Bhagavad Gita is the conversation between Shri Krishna and the prince Arjuna, for whom Shri Krishna himself became the charioteer.
The 5 most famous and powerful shlokas from Bhagavad Gita:
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन । This shloka means – One has the right to perform the duties that they are supposed to, but they are not ‘entitled’ to the fruits of those actions. This powerful and famous shloka from the Bhagavad Gita teaches the importance of focusing on our responsibilities and actions rather than obsessing over the outcomes, results, and the profits that particular action would generate for us.
अहं सर्वस्य प्रभवो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते: It translates to – ‘I am the source of all spiritual and material and everything that exists emanates from Me.’
In this shloka, Lord Krishna himself asserts that he is the reason for all life in all forms on Earth. It is like an assertion of his divine omnipotence, reminding people that everything in the universe originates from him i.e. the divine presence within everything.
अहमात्मा गुडाकेश सर्वभूताशयस्थित:- “I am in the hearts of all living entities, or I live in the hearts of all living beings.” It highlights the power of the divine and the sacredness that is present in all life forms.
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत! अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् :
Whenever there is a decline in dharma or righteousness and there is an increase in misdeeds; I take form on Earth to eradicate it. Here, Lord Krishna assures Arjun that whenever there is a decline in morals and righteous nature, and there is any form of injustice over the Earth, Krishna will manifest himself, come back, and restore righteousness.
क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोह: सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रम: | स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति: It explains the negative power of anger. ‘From anger, there comes delusion, and from delusion, there is bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost. The shloka simply means that in anger there is the power of destruction as with that anger comes delusion, hazy memories, and loss of rational thinking.
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