Dear All,

Maa sang some of her old songs today at the evening satsang.

Prabhater Alo - was one of them ... As she sang, the assembled crowd
went still. Just the sound of her voice and her tanpura ...
When she finished , Swamiji gently whispered "Jai Maa"

The rest of us couldnt rouse ourselves to say anything. Atleast ,
speaking for myself, the song and Maa singing never fail to move me
and I love the silence that comes from just listening to her.

Almost on cue Maa said this to the satsang and I paraphrase "Singing
is the highest sadhana. When your mind starts wandering ... start
singing ...anything..and a few minutes later you will have forgotten
the trouble. Dont worry whether you have a good or bad voice ... just
sing...anything that comes to you. Singing is the highest sadhana. You
can go in quickly" and She asked us to try it out as a sadhana.

I will Maa.

Love
Latha

In a message dated 11/13/2004 11:35:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, lathananda (AT) yahoo (DOT) com writes:
"Singingis the highest sadhana. When your mind starts wandering ...
startsinging ...anything..and a few minutes later you will have
forgotten the trouble. Dont worry whether you have a good or bad
voice ... justsing...anything that comes to you. Singing is the
highest sadhana. Youcan go in quickly"
Jai Maa!! Jai Kirtan!!

--- In Devi_Mandir (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Latha Nanda" <lathananda@y...>
wrote:
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Maa sang some of her old songs today at the evening satsang.
>
> Prabhater Alo - was one of them ... As she sang, the assembled
crowd
> went still. Just the sound of her voice and her tanpura ...
> When she finished , Swamiji gently whispered "Jai Maa"
>
> The rest of us couldnt rouse ourselves to say anything. Atleast ,
> speaking for myself, the song and Maa singing never fail to move me
> and I love the silence that comes from just listening to her.
>
> Almost on cue Maa said this to the satsang and I
paraphrase "Singing
> is the highest sadhana. When your mind starts wandering ... start
> singing ...anything..and a few minutes later you will have
forgotten
> the trouble. Dont worry whether you have a good or bad voice ...
just
> sing...anything that comes to you. Singing is the highest sadhana.
You
> can go in quickly" and She asked us to try it out as a sadhana.
>
> I will Maa.
>
> Love
> Latha

This is a very beautiful piece of advice from Maa. Thank you for
sharing this... I am going to try this today and check it out for
myself.

Jai Ma!

P.S.: I too love the profound silence that ensues after a fantastic
performance of a rousing bhajan.... it usually goes away after 10-15
seconds... I wish there was a technique for prolonging the ecstatic
state.... if anyone has any advice, I am all ears!

I would have loved to have shared in that Satsang.
Thank you for sharing Maa’s teaching on singing.
Love,
Ardis
Dear All,
Maa sang some of her old songs today at the evening satsang.
Prabhater Alo - was one of them ... As she sang, the assembled crowd
went still. Just the sound of her voice and her tanpura ...
When she finished , Swamiji gently whispered "Jai Maa"
The rest of us couldnt rouse ourselves to say anything. Atleast ,
speaking for myself, the song and Maa singing never fail to move me
and I love the silence that comes from just listening to her.
Almost on cue Maa said this to the satsang and I paraphrase "Singing
is the highest sadhana. When your mind starts wandering ... start
singing ...anything..and a few minutes later you will have forgotten
the trouble. Dont worry whether you have a good or bad voice ... just
sing...anything that comes to you. Singing is the highest sadhana. You
can go in quickly" and She asked us to try it out as a sadhana.
I will Maa.
Love
Latha
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--- In Devi_Mandir (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "manoj_menon" <ammasmon@s...>
wrote:
>
>
> --- In Devi_Mandir (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Latha Nanda" <lathananda@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Maa sang some of her old songs today at the evening satsang.
> >
> > Prabhater Alo - was one of them ... As she sang, the assembled
> crowd
> > went still. Just the sound of her voice and her tanpura ...
> > When she finished , Swamiji gently whispered "Jai Maa"
> >
> > The rest of us couldnt rouse ourselves to say anything. Atleast ,
> > speaking for myself, the song and Maa singing never fail to move
me
> > and I love the silence that comes from just listening to her.
> >
> > Almost on cue Maa said this to the satsang and I
> paraphrase "Singing
> > is the highest sadhana. When your mind starts wandering ... start
> > singing ...anything..and a few minutes later you will have
> forgotten
> > the trouble. Dont worry whether you have a good or bad voice ...
> just
> > sing...anything that comes to you. Singing is the highest
sadhana.
> You
> > can go in quickly" and She asked us to try it out as a sadhana.
> >
> > I will Maa.
> >
> > Love
> > Latha
>
> This is a very beautiful piece of advice from Maa. Thank you for
> sharing this... I am going to try this today and check it out for
> myself.
>
> Jai Ma!
>
> P.S.: I too love the profound silence that ensues after a fantastic
> performance of a rousing bhajan.... it usually goes away after
10-15
> seconds... I wish there was a technique for prolonging the ecstatic
> state.... if anyone has any advice, I am all ears!

Oh what a grace to hear this.

You know, I went to offer the kirtan on Thursday as I mentioned. I had
just agreed to offer it and surrender the results for recording. When I
arrived, many beautiful souls arrived to help chant. But the sound
person was very very late (got lost) and there technical problems so we
didn't have sound until almost the end of the night.

For me, however, it reminded me of the churning of the ocean that
Lakshmi came out of...so many seeming obstacles. And there was this
grace that arose. So many times I have tried to surrender results, or
thought I had. Somehow, Lakshmi's grace was present. All was perfect.
We didn't get the recording, but I learned a lot and feel that "I" came
through a fog to a place where grace and ease and wellness and
prosperity abide.
I am ready to really abide with Lakshmi. Jai Jai Ma and thanks and
praise.

Regarding Maa's words. Yes..I am so glad to read this. I can meditate
for a while and it is an effect, but when I sing to my Love, my God, my
Lord Ma...the grace pours in and seems to open me faster, easier than I
could imagine.
It is easier to ask then "Who is singing"? Thank you all for your great
wishes.

Regarding the silence - the 10-15 second silence at the end...for me it
is like echoes that remain after a bell is rung....
Something palpable and yes, it may fade. My practice lately, which I
think I heard from Gangaji (from lineage of Ramana Maharshi, then
Poonjaji in lucknow (who was my teacher) to Gangaji) is to ask, when
things seem chaotic or in turmoil, "is stillness present even now"? The
very question is like a weight that takes me deep to it.

Anyway, thank you. Thank you source of sound. Thank you Maaa for
sharing your beautiful voice and sounds.

Jai Maa Lakshmi. Jai Maa Saraswaati. Jai Shreee Ma, Jai Swamiji.

Thanks and Praise to the One who sings through each of us.

Love
Gina Sala
On Nov 14, 2004, at 6:50 AM, manoj_menon wrote:

>
>
>
> --- In Devi_Mandir (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "Latha Nanda" <lathananda@y...>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Maa sang some of her old songs today at the evening satsang.
>>
>> Prabhater Alo - was one of them ... As she sang, the assembled
> crowd
>> went still. Just the sound of her voice and her tanpura ...
>> When she finished , Swamiji gently whispered "Jai Maa"
>>
>> The rest of us couldnt rouse ourselves to say anything. Atleast ,
>> speaking for myself, the song and Maa singing never fail to move me
>> and I love the silence that comes from just listening to her.
>>
>> Almost on cue Maa said this to the satsang and I
> paraphrase "Singing
>> is the highest sadhana. When your mind starts wandering ... start
>> singing ...anything..and a few minutes later you will have
> forgotten
>> the trouble. Dont worry whether you have a good or bad voice ...
> just
>> sing...anything that comes to you. Singing is the highest sadhana.
> You
>> can go in quickly" and She asked us to try it out as a sadhana.
>>
>> I will Maa.
>>
>> Love
>> Latha
>
> This is a very beautiful piece of advice from Maa. Thank you for
> sharing this... I am going to try this today and check it out for
> myself.
>
> Jai Ma!
>
> P.S.: I too love the profound silence that ensues after a fantastic
> performance of a rousing bhajan.... it usually goes away after 10-15
> seconds... I wish there was a technique for prolonging the ecstatic
> state.... if anyone has any advice, I am all ears!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
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>
>
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In a message dated 11/14/2004 1:07:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, ammasmon (AT) sify (DOT) com writes:
P.S.: I too love the profound silence that ensues after a fantastic
performance of a rousing bhajan.... it usually goes away after 10-15
seconds... I wish there was a technique for prolonging the ecstatic
state.... if anyone has any advice, I am all ears!
That profound silence you hear is actually an inner silence,
bhajan/kirtan is a practice where you quiet your thoughts and
strengthen your one pointedness, after singing Gods name for 20
minutes, your concentration is so intense that you can hear the
silence between your thoughts. That's my thoughts on it anyway, love
shubal PS: Bhajan is not a performance

--- In Devi_Mandir (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, shubal108@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 11/14/2004 1:07:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> ammasmon@s... writes:
> That profound silence you hear is actually an inner silence,
bhajan/kirtan is
> a practice where you quiet your thoughts and strengthen your one
pointedness,
> after singing Gods name for 20 minutes, your concentration is so
intense that
> you can hear the silence between your thoughts. That's my
thoughts on it
> anyway, love shubal PS: Bhajan is not a performance

Hi Shubal,

I found your note really amusing because of the striking usage of
words and how putting the opposite words could also be equally truly
descriptive, so let me share it here and hope you will see it too.

> That profound silence you hear
(what a wonderful oxymoron!)

>is actually an inner silence
(or "is actually an inner sound". words and their meaning seem to
merge here!)

Your thoughts are perfectly well-taken, and they are my thoughts
too. Bhajan is like an active meditation which is loaded with 'rasa'
to please all your senses - taming the external-going senses
masterfully and helping release energies to the mind to be internal-
going.

The word "performance" seems to remind you of "natya" or a sangeet
concert, I guess. That was not the intention. As I post, I tend to
experiment with words to describe an idea (burning off my verbose
karma, if you wish), and in this occasion, the word "performance"
was entirely appropriately intended and used - the intention
being "the action taken to sing".

Jai Ma!