Music Meditation Mantra and Me

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This is sometimes called japa,Cheapest Football Jerseys, or Indian meditation music. Sometimes it's just called crazy.
These days,Lifestyle Sunglasses, a lot of people are only familiar with chanting music meditation through the work of the popular performer, Krishna Das.
There is,Fendi Sunglasses, however,Wholesale NFL jerseys, quite a difference between the Krishna Das concert I attended with my wife and mother-in-law and 72-hours of straight chanting in a small room with a bunch of Indians.
At the Krishna Das concert,new era 59fifty hats, what I experienced was more like music relaxation than it was music meditation. It felt kind of like a recorded meditation CD,NBA Jerseys, except one that was happening live. Sort of like singing in your car… but with a ton of people around. Generally,NFL Jerseys, he would start some chant and then, after a few moments,baseball hats, it would get more energetic and speed up before he finally either abruptly ended it or brought it to a slow completion. The result is the mental equivalent of dropping a heavy object – a sudden and very pleasant release.
However,Prada Sunglasses, when you chant for hours and hours and do yoga meditation for days at a time,Ray Ban Sunglasses, the experience is totally different.
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When you reach a point where something inside your mind snaps and you get blissed out and want to rest,Active Sunglasses, the music continues on. This meditation practice involves taking everything in each moment and putting it into your voice and into the chanting.
This is an impossible experience to describe. There aren’t any meditation MP3’s that will get you singing for three whole days nonstop. No relaxation CD is ever going to put you into that state of exhaustion you reach late into the night with a mantra moving across your lips.
Now,new era hats, maybe from this description it sounds like I am suggesting you seek out an ashram where you can get yourself a good case of laryngitis doing this practice. Twenty years after having experienced it myself, however, I have to say that I wouldn’t recommend this kind of music meditation anymore than I'd suggest any other extreme experience like bungee jumping or skydiving.
I think it's a fine memory and a great story, but I don’t believe that the "spiritual life" or meditation practice need to be so difficult.