om shanti

[Guest guest]

devotees:

 

i have a fortunate situation, in that i have 2 original copies of the

shiva puja on cd-rom.

 

this has swamiji satyananda saraswati reciting patiently and devoutly

the entire beginner's shiva puja book. shree maa is intoning om namah

shivaya along with him. there is an instrument playing, i am not sure

if this is maa or what the name of the instrument is.

 

if anyone wants me to send it to them, to advance their sadhana, i

will mail it. e-mail me at sconnor.

 

steve c.

[Guest guest]

Namaste, Steve ji!

What a very sweet and thoughful offer you have made! i have the Cd

and it is very wonderful; i love Shree Maa's chanting of 'Om Namah

Shivaya' softly in the background. The stringed instrument She is

playing is called a 'Tamboura'. [sometimes spelled as 'Tanpura' or

Tambura]. It is a wonderful 4-5 string drone instrument. The strings

are continuously plucked while chanting or singing bhajans. The nice

thing about a tamboura is, that you don't have to play chords or

melodies, so you can really let yourself become absorbed in the

chanting. i am blessed to have one, and have found it a great

enhancement to my bhajan singing. Harmoniums are wonderful, also, but

i find i have to concentrate more and can't as easily 'let myself go'.

Jai Maa! Jai Swamiji! Jai Ramakrishna Deva!

muktimaa

 

 

 

 

, "Steve Connor" <sconnor@a...>

wrote:

>

>

> devotees:

>

> i have a fortunate situation, in that i have 2 original copies of

the

> shiva puja on cd-rom.

>

> this has swamiji satyananda saraswati reciting patiently and

devoutly

> the entire beginner's shiva puja book. shree maa is intoning om

namah

> shivaya along with him. there is an instrument playing, i am not

sure

> if this is maa or what the name of the instrument is.

>

> if anyone wants me to send it to them, to advance their sadhana, i

> will mail it. e-mail me at sconnor@a...

>

> steve c.