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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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Krishna Das

Krishna Das leads kirtan (chants invoking the name of God) all over the world. After meeting Ram Dass in 1968, he went on to the life-altering epiphany of being with their guru, Neem Karoli Baba, Maharaj-ji.

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David Silver
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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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The Power of Love: A Q&A with Krishna Das

Kirtan master Krishna Das spoke with us about spiritual practice, suffering, and finding love within.

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Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health
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Krishna Das Talks About His Music, His Guru, and His Practice

He’s driven a school bus, dabbled in the blues, and meditated in the jungles and ashrams of India, but today Krishna Das is known as the King of Kirtan.

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Kate Hagerman
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Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls

“Without music life would be a mistake,” Nietzsche proclaimed in 1889.

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Maria Popova
2016
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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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Different Drummer: One Man’s Music and Its Impact on ADD, Anxiety, and Autism

Percussionist and researcher Jeff Strong embarks on a three-decade journey into the power of musical rhythm.

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Jeff Strong
2015
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Vibrational Medicine: The #1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies

Vibrational Medicine has gained widespread acceptance by individuals, schools, and health-care institutions nationwide as the textbook of choice for the study of alternative medicine. Trained in a variety of alternative therapies as well as conventional Western medicine, Dr.

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Richard Gerber
2001
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Hinduism

Five lectures by the great Swami Vivekananda that explain Hinduism as a universal religion, its common bases and philosophy, and its four yogas.

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Swami Vivekananda
1989
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