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Radhe Govinda - Live with Lyrics

By Krishna Das — 2017

This video was shot in New York City at the Church Of St. Paul & St. Andrew in October 2013 and is part of a full-length kirtan recorded that evening.

15:38 min

Kirtan: The Easy Meditation That Can Improve Your Brain: Discover How 12 Minutes a Day Can Improve How You Think and Feel.

Discover how 12 minutes a day can improve how you think and feel.

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Jennice Vilhauer Ph.D.
2018
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The Benefits of Chanting: How Kirtan Can Heal You in Both Body and Spirit

Yoga is on fire in the West, and so it kirtan, or yogic chanting. Kirtan combines music and mantra — words and sounds that vibrate at the highest level of awareness. It is an effortless and joyful way to meditate.

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Harrison Graves
2019
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The Kirtan Revolution Brings an Ancient Practice to a Modern Audience

An American kirtan revolution turns chanting God's name into something hip as well as holy.

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Shannon Sexton & Anna Dubrovsky
2011
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The Power of Kirtan

As yoga has become increasingly popular in the United States, so has the ancient practice of kirtan (KEER-tahn), or yogic chanting. The call-and-response format of chanting is a type of yoga in itself and has many of the mind-calming benefits of a yoga class or sitting meditation.

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Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
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'The Music of Yoga': Agnostics, Christians Find Spiritual Benefits in Kirtan's Hindu Chants

In the 1990s, American musician Dave Stringer went to India for a pay cheque and came back with a calling. Hired by an Indian guru to make videos, he was tasked with translating the philosophy of yoga and the music of yoga, known as kirtan, into film.

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Siobhan Hegarty
2017
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The Beginners' Guide to Kirtan and Mantra

Across the country and around the world, yoga practitioners are chanting in foreign tongues, including Sanskrit, Hindi, and Gurmukhi. They’re even chanting in English.

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Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
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Krishna Das Interview

On Kirtan, what makes music sacred, and his inspiration from Neem Karoli Baba.

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Llew Smith and Annie Stopford
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Krishna Das: Bhakti with a Dash of Blues

“I understand there are people who feel that what happens in the West with chanting is ridiculous—what do we know about chanting?” says Krishna Das, the white guy from Long Island whose name is synonymous with Indian mantric music in America. “That’s really dumb.

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Anna Dubrovsky
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Sacred Sound: Discovering the Myth and Meaning of Mantra and Kirtan

In yoga practice, mantra and kirtan (call-and-response devotional chanting) get short shrift in the West because they aren’t well understood, though they are an integral part of almost every Eastern spiritual practice.

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Alanna Kaivalya
2014
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