Jai ShivaShakti Namo Ganeshaya Namah !
"In Kaliyug, singing kirtans and dhun will give us the same punya as performing yagna, tap, and vrat." ~ Shreemad Bhagvatam. Kirtan is truly powerful form of Bhakti. During Kirtan, if one is absorbed in it, nothing else matters. One forgets everything else and simply dances, chants, and claps their hands for the pleasure of the Divine. It is indeed food for the soul. The Holy Names of The Lord is powerful. Kirtan is the yoga of devotion, the yoga of wisdom and mantra, the yoga of sound. Mantras are words, phrases, and syllables that are repeated until they become integrated into the persons consciousness. Kirtan is meditation and if you chant mantra quietly to yourself, even when you do asana, your asana practice will benefit greatly. In this current age of struggle, kirtan is said to be the supreme form of yoga and supreme form of devotion! If we play instruments and sing kirtans, but we forget God, it is like not singing at all. There are many people in the world who sing, and play instruments, but they forget God. They do not have peace of mind. This is why we should sing Gods kirtans, sing dhun, and play instruments while keeping Almighty in our mind.
The Sanskrit word, Kirtan, means to glorify, and sanga kirtan, shortened to sankirtan, means glorification in the association of others, or the congregational singing of divine mantras with devotion. The word, mantra, can be broken etymologically into two root words, mana which means the mind, and tra which means to deliver. Thus, a mantra has the power to deliver the mind from material consciousness or perception, to spiritual consciousness or enlightenment. Previously the mantras were chanted, but not sung with melodies and instruments. Later singing was Introduced in order to keep the restless mind peaceful. The mantra has to be heard with a calm and peaceful mind. Then it can enter through the ear and into the heart where the purification process takes place. God is within the heart of every living being, and the heart is also the abode of divine love. So the kirtan will open up the heart chakra and revive the divine love that is already present. If one's mind is restless, with scattered thoughts always coming and going, then the hearing process is disrupted, and the mantra cannot enter into our minds and hearts, and therefore the process becomes restricted. Mantras purify heart and soul. The reason the mantras have this potency is because these sound vibrations are not spoken by man. They are not of this world, or even the material universe. Rather, they have descended directly from the spiritual plane and thus have spiritual potencies because the mantras are the sound representations of the Divine Names of God. The scriptures of every major religion in the world recommend we glorify God by music and song in order to establish a loving connection with the Supreme. This can be experienced by anyone personally by engaging in the kirtan process. When we speak of purifying the heart we refer to those unwanted things in our heart, like bigotry, resentment, anger, prejudice, jealousy, lust, greed, etc. that cover and obstruct divine love from expressing itself at every moment. So the goal of kirtan is to purify the heart in order to revive the dormant divine love that remains deep in the core of our heart!! Hari Om Tat Sat Namah Shivaya ~ Hari Om Namo Narayana ~ Shivaya Namah Om !!!
The Sanskrit word, Kirtan, means to glorify, and sanga kirtan, shortened to sankirtan, means glorification in the association of others, or the congregational singing of divine mantras with devotion. The word, mantra, can be broken etymologically into two root words, mana which means the mind, and tra which means to deliver. Thus, a mantra has the power to deliver the mind from material consciousness or perception, to spiritual consciousness or enlightenment. Previously the mantras were chanted, but not sung with melodies and instruments. Later singing was Introduced in order to keep the restless mind peaceful. The mantra has to be heard with a calm and peaceful mind. Then it can enter through the ear and into the heart where the purification process takes place. God is within the heart of every living being, and the heart is also the abode of divine love. So the kirtan will open up the heart chakra and revive the divine love that is already present. If one's mind is restless, with scattered thoughts always coming and going, then the hearing process is disrupted, and the mantra cannot enter into our minds and hearts, and therefore the process becomes restricted. Mantras purify heart and soul. The reason the mantras have this potency is because these sound vibrations are not spoken by man. They are not of this world, or even the material universe. Rather, they have descended directly from the spiritual plane and thus have spiritual potencies because the mantras are the sound representations of the Divine Names of God. The scriptures of every major religion in the world recommend we glorify God by music and song in order to establish a loving connection with the Supreme. This can be experienced by anyone personally by engaging in the kirtan process. When we speak of purifying the heart we refer to those unwanted things in our heart, like bigotry, resentment, anger, prejudice, jealousy, lust, greed, etc. that cover and obstruct divine love from expressing itself at every moment. So the goal of kirtan is to purify the heart in order to revive the dormant divine love that remains deep in the core of our heart!! Hari Om Tat Sat Namah Shivaya ~ Hari Om Namo Narayana ~ Shivaya Namah Om !!!
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