winter solstice/sacred...Divine music

[Guest guest]

Sat nam everyone,

 

I'd liked to share my experience of the music at winter solstice

with everyone. The first 2 1/2 years that I practiced KY I had

never heard any sacred/spiritual music during yoga class. My

teacher never used it. So I didn't know about it. I remember

during a summer class my teacher started using music. But only for

that class, he didn't really use it again after that. Then right

after that I visited a KY studio some where else for the first time

and they totally used music and sang full out during clases as

well!! I purchased alot of Cd's and came home using music in my

classes and I stopped listening to all other music at this point as

well. I haven't listened to a radio in 1 1/2 years now. I saturate

my life with Divine music.

 

I attended summer solstice for the first time this spring and was

blown away by the muscians playing this music live, during sadhana

and at other times. They would begin to play and sing and I would

just begin to cry. The music felt as if it was moving through out

my body carving away all the pain that I had held on to and

releasing it through tears. It also brought up alot of pain around

my spiritual name and just general craziness with in me!

 

I remember at Summer solstice, the first sadhana after our first day

of white tantric yoga. The night before I was so low and was really

taking a walk through my darkside (shadow emotions and thoughts etc)

and didn't know how I would make it through another day of tantric

yoga etc. I went to sadhana, Guru Ganesha and Snatam Kaur were

playing with others. These two are extremely masterful in the

estactic state during music. I opened my mouth to sing along, and I

never felt my heart so raw before, I heard the words, allow the

music to massage the pain/heart. I did. And I cried like there was

no tomorrow, I felt as if I could barely stand to sit present in the

sweetness of this music, but by the time the sun had risen, I felt

renewed!

 

My time at summer sosltice was very angst ridden. I was facing my

shadow and it was painful.

 

6 months later...Winter Solstice...

 

I had a different experience. My first day of Sadhana, I opened my

eyes after the Adi Shakti mantra and Guru Ganesha was sitting there

and began to play. Heaven doesn't begin to describe the beauty of

this moment and the ones to follow in the week. Everytime the music

began I found myself swimming in what felt like oceans of grace. I

could now sit in the beauty of this moment and be present unlike

before. I still had tears rolling down my face, but they were not

tears of pain. I was in awe. It felt as if God had poured into the

room, like a warm liquid surrounding us and filling us up with this

divine light. This was my experience throughout the week. When I

say I had a wonderful time.. I sure did.

 

The Tantric was excruciating but effective!!! And lots of other

great experiences with the people and classes etc.

 

Thank you for letting me share,

 

Sat Sangeet Kaur

[Guest guest]

You have Angel's watchin over you or something. You know what you need to do.

When many things are coming at us and we are challenged both

emotionally and mentally to the point when aren't which is stronger, our mind or

the commotion/disorder. "Then balancing of Rajas and Tamas with

the power of Sattva is first essential. Men-tal rejuvenation is indicated in an

cases.

When the mind is filled with Ama created from unsatisfactory inter-personal

relationships, fasting from cravings is a must. There is even a

mental Triphala to help scrape away the old Ama of selfish attachments. It is

called Kirtan, the devotional singing of God's name. Even if you

don't believe in a God with form, you can select a name which represents

whatever you do believe in, and repeat it with devotion, allowing that

force to enter and heal you.

Kirtan is also the best rejuvenator, because it helps us rectify our

relationship with Nature. The true meaning of Yoga is union with the divine,

and an attitude of sincere request for divine assistance is the royal road to

real Yoga."

 

>From Prakruti by Robert Svoboda

 

 

>

> I had a different experience. My first day of Sadhana, I opened my

> eyes after the Adi Shakti mantra and Guru Ganesha was sitting there

> and began to play. Heaven doesn't begin to describe the beauty of

> this moment and the ones to follow in the week. Everytime the music

> began I found myself swimming in what felt like oceans of grace. I

> could now sit in the beauty of this moment and be present unlike

> before. I still had tears rolling down my face, but they were not

> tears of pain. I was in awe. It felt as if God had poured into the

> room, like a warm liquid surrounding us and filling us up with this

> divine light. This was my experience throughout the week. When I

> say I had a wonderful time.. I sure did.

>

> The Tantric was excruciating but effective!!! And lots of other

> great experiences with the people and classes etc.

>

> Thank you for letting me share,

>

> Sat Sangeet Kaur

[Guest guest]

Lest anyone forget, it is through kirtan, meditation on the divine melody, that

the soul is reminded of sarm khand. This is the seal of ecstacy, the

third ether where the mind is abandoned and the souls radiance predominates.

Here the magnetism of God is so close it is like the breath of the

beloved dancing just beneath the fingertips of your awareness. Bringing this

divine melody to earth, God stirs the divinity of even those whose heart

is entirely broken. It is mercy incarnate. And it is our refuge, during the

dark, and during the light, it is our refuge. It is the point in destiny

when we surrender and turn permanently toward the One.

 

Seva Simran