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tion of bliss moving throughout the room. Kirtan, understood by most as call and response chanting, is part of bhakti yoga, the living art of devo- tion. Essentially, bhakti yoga is about love and allowing love in its purest sense to transform everything.
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alk into any yoga center in the middle of a kirtan and there is an evident pulsa-
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The Benefits of Kirtan Chanting is a way of deepening the relationship to our innermost self. Mind and thoughts surrender as our heart naturally opens up to the flow of life's grace. When we recognize this grace, we are living in the present moment and that’s what yoga in its truest sense is all about. Yoga is classically defined as union of individual consciousness with cosmic consciousness or oneness. Most often, kirtan chants are the
repetition of ancient Sanskrit mantras, a mantra being a great suggestion that carries a vibration of healing and perfection. The repetition of mantras has a calming effect on the mind; each syllable of every Sanskrit mantra is said to resonate with different centers of the brain, guiding the individual towards a state of meditation.
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worldwide icon of kirtan today, "The words of these chants are called the divine names and they come from a place that's deeper than our hearts and our thoughts, deeper than the mind. And, so, as we sing them, they turn us towards ourselves, into ourselves. They bring us in and, as we offer ourselves into the experience, the experience changes us. These chants have no meaning other than the experience that we have by doing them. They come from the Hindu tradition but it's not about being a Hindu or believing any- thing in advance. It's just about doing it and experiencing. Nothing to join, you just sit down and sing."
How Kirtan Began Kirtan is a folk form that arose from the Bhakti movement of 15th-century India, where devotees would write ecstatic love poems and go around singing all the time. Their message was clear and simple: cultivate joy. Among the many ways the human spirit expresses its perceptions and deep secrets, music is perhaps the one universal way. His holiness, the Dalai Lama, once stated that "There is something in music that transcends and unites. This is evident
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