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What Is Kirtan/Satsang and Why You Should Be Doing It

2016

What is Kirtan? What is Satsang? Why do we sing in Sanskrit? Why do we sing the names of Hindu Gods and Godesses? Is it religious? Can anyone do it? How does a Kirtan work? What if I cant sing on key? - ALL these questions answered!

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Sounds of Healing: A Physician Reveals the Therapeutic Power of Sound, Voice, and Music

We are all familiar with the tremendous power of sound to energize our bodies and soothe our spirits, whether we experience it in the form of rousing music or in the hushed noise of waves on a beach at night. A pioneer in the revolutionary new field of sound medicine, Dr.

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Mitchell L. Gaynor
1999
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Origin & Development of Karma Doctrine in Hinduism

The purpose of this essay is to explain some of the earliest Vedic beliefs and concepts associated with the doctrine of karma and how they developed into our current knowledge of the law of karma in Hinduism.

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Jayaram V
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The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita

The Ashtavakra Gita conveys with beauty and simplicity the essential teachings of Advaita Vedanta, the most influential of the Hindu philosophical systems.

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Byron Thomas (translator)
2001
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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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The Healing Power of Sound as Meditation

As I witnessed the droning sounds of Tarek Atoui’s hybrid sculpture performance Organ Within at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, I noticed a family of four—two young parents with two young children—sitting quietly on the floor pillows of the rotunda.

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Marlynn Wei
2019
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