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"Sounds Good - Good Sounds"
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Surrender, Sacrifice, Service
After listening to Gregorian chant for several decades, for unclear reasons I felt drawn to visit the place where monks who sang this...
Oct 4, 20242 min read


Good Health is Easy. Disease is complicated
Good health is easy – we are born with it. It is in fact so easy that for most of our lives we simply do not even think about it. It...
Aug 26, 20242 min read


Meditation vs More Medications
The following tells a story of discovery of meditation as a healing modality far more powerful than any medication. Hives, Hives and more...
Mar 30, 20246 min read


Brotherhood
In elementary school, I remember putting my hand on my heart and singing “America the Beautiful”. The words themselves are beautiful – a...
Jan 28, 20242 min read


Flowers for Lord Viṣṇu – the Eternal Teacher
Flowers are very often offered during spiritual and religious rituals. This simple chant refers to offering flowers of different nature...
Aug 31, 20231 min read


All God's Creatures
One day my sister wrote: “Crows are known to leave "gifts" behind if you feed them. Typically it's coins, shells, shiny pebbles, etc....
Jun 11, 20232 min read


MOTHER, I FEEL YOU
Mother Earth Mother in all sense of the word It is Her beautiful lap in which we play, work and live Her fertile fields that nourish us...
Sep 4, 20221 min read


AYURVEDA, HEALTH and LIFE
Most of us who are familiar with Ayurveda associate it with health. It is a health system founded in India thousands of years ago and is...
May 22, 20221 min read


LOVE, EMOTION, DEVOTION
Love, Emotion, Devotion What is devotion? Whence it came? Is it love? Is it something else entirely?Of all the things we offer in our...
Apr 3, 20222 min read


Compassion
Gandharvas are celestial musicians par excellence. Gandharva music is considered heavenly and healing especially when listened to at...
Dec 20, 20212 min read


Jai Guru
Jai, derived from the Sanskrit word jaya, is most often translated as victory. In many traditions “Jai” is used to acknowledge spiritual...
Sep 20, 20212 min read


Sounds of Bhakti - Hare Krsna Hare Rama
One man and one mantra. Hard to believe that Sri Prabhupada started the Hare Krsna Movement - with over a million followers and centers...
Jul 5, 20212 min read


Anandamayi Maa
I had the good fortune to stay at the Anandamayi (ananda - divine joy, bliss; mayi - me) International Guest House. I had only...
Apr 12, 20212 min read


A Rose by any other Name – Allah Hu
One day I accidently stumbled upon this recording. After a few seconds I realized I got the wrong one and went to turn it off. Somehow...
Mar 4, 20211 min read


Sound Health ? - A Tale of the Benedictine Monks
Beautiful, uplifting, lightening and heavenly sounds of the monks of Fontgombault chanting the Mass of Assumption. The sounds, the...
Jan 24, 20211 min read


Holy Harmony - Faith, Acceptance, Wonder
This is a beautiful ethereal chant using nine different frequency tuning forks and chanting YHSVH ( Yod Hey Shin Vav Hey) by Jonathan...
Dec 25, 20201 min read


Higher Love
Think about it There must be Higher Love Down in the Heart Or Hidden in the stars above Without it Life is wasted time Bring me a Higher...
Dec 5, 20201 min read


Celestial Dancers
Close your eyes. Let the sounds paint the picture - its a spectacular view. Imagine two dancers represented by the flute and saxophone -...
Nov 23, 20201 min read


Army of Sound and Light - Maharishi's Rajkumars
Excerpt of Maharishi's Vedic Pandits chanting Atirudrabhishek at the Brahmasthan of India. Vibrations of sacred sounds can have ripple...
Nov 14, 20201 min read


Srotas in Ayurveda, Sound - In the Arms of Mother Divine
This is a example of Kirtan - devotional type of chanting. Sung by Krishna Das - disciple of Neem Karoli Baba. Like with all sound I...
Oct 17, 20201 min read
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