Stotra Śālā · स्तोत्रशाला
Twenty chants, held by heart
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Nobody learns a chant by reading it. You hear it, you say it back while it is still ringing, and then the page is taken away from you one piece at a time. That last part is the whole method here: four passes, each showing you less, until the lines are gone and the verse is still there.
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The four passes
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How to use the room
Play it twice with your eyes closed before you look at anything. Then echo, line by line, in the gaps. Then move the pass along — whole, first words, first letters, nothing — and only go forward when the pass you are on comes out without a stumble.
The listening bar in the bottom left corner has a tanpura drone. Chanting against a held note is how this was always done, and it keeps you from drifting flat.
Where you are
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कण्ठस्थम्
Literally standing in the throat. Not memorised on paper — held where speech starts, so it comes out whether or not you meant to say it.