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Resonances of Light
Ragas for Ajna – the Third-Eye Chakra
Tanpura male - female duet & shruti in B: opens the connection between the back of the head and the front of the heart, it makes you milder towards your past, and it offers new insights.
Tanpura male 5-string in C-sharp: heals the third-eye chakra, gives confidence in your perception, brings peace, helps you to accept who you are and detaches you from your personal interpretations.
Ragas
1. Tanpura male - female duet & shruti in B (34.48 minutes)
2. Tanpura male 5-string in C-sharp (35.38 minutes)
Chakra Resonance Ragas
The Chakra Resonance Ragas are a form of nada yoga (meaning "union through sound") that connects you to your essence (yoga) through tones and sounds (nada). The music is fully instrumental, with tanpura, shruti, swaramandala, and/or nadatarangini, and supports your receptivity to a meditative, open state of awareness.
Each raga heals and balances the chakras in a specific way, as well as the energetic, emotional, mental and physical layers of your humanity, with its harmonic vibrations and overtone-rich sounds, some of which you cannot even hear. Listening to the meditative atmosphere of these ragas for a few minutes before your meditation, in particular the tanpura ragas, can be very helpful in letting go of what you were doing before and becoming open to the deep value and depth that meditation can bring.
The Sanskrit word raga literally means "mood," "atmosphere," "feeling" and "tone." So raga is about mood and tone. These ragas always use a tanpura in a particular tone composition, a solo tanpura or a duet of tanpuras, sometimes accompanied by a shruti (Sanskrit word meaning "sound" or "that which is heard"), and occasionally used to support other musical instruments. Several types of tanpuras are used, including male, female and bass tanpuras. This, as well as where they are made in India and how many strings they have (tanpuras usually have four strings, but some have five or six strings), influences the tonal range, timbre or sound color, overtones, and atmospheric ambience of the tanpura.
The Brow Chakra
The Brow Chakra, also called the Third Eye Chakra, has the Sanskrit name Ajna. The Sanskrit word ajna means “to perceive” or “control.” Indeed, your perception determines your vision, and your vision controls your thinking and actions. This chakra is located in the center of the forehead, just above the eyebrow line, and is connected to the epiphysis (the pineal gland) and the pituitary gland (the brain appendage in the center of the head), both of which produce important hormones. The epiphysis is sensitive to light, which spiritually supports the energies of Ajna regarding your light of consciousness and insight, and produces the hormone melatonin, which ensures that you sleep well. Spiritually speaking, the latter is a way of letting go of everything conscious and finding the safe harbor of being here in the body, creating a good balance between insight and letting go. The energies of Ajna are most clearly felt through the forehead. Your perception steers your way of living, so it is invaluable to have clarity of perception, not only of the factual, but also of the depths behind or within the factual, allowing you to see beyond the outer forms. It offers the value of insight, of seeing from within, of understanding with your intuition, of having instant clarity in what you see and how you act. This applies to both seeing and seeing through your own reality as well as that of others and the world around you.
The energies of Ajna help you both to deepen your insight into your habits as well as the cosmic magnificence of the inner essence and inspiration that exists behind everything. You recognize the activity of this chakra by the abundance of liberating thoughts and insights that deepen your openness, by experiencing more and more universal wisdom, and by giving this clarity a place in the way you live, listening to its guidance and letting it inspire your actions. As your awareness deepens, your spiritual development becomes more meditative, and you become more aware of what is unchanging behind all change, what is true behind all untruth. Your habits and the ego begin to lose their grip more and more, and insights begin to determine the direction of your life. Also, more and more wisdom and intuition emerge instead of mere intellectual knowledge, opening the way for love and purity to be present in it as well.
As Ajna becomes more open, you gratefully tap into the increasingly clear understanding of the coherence of all of life, the joyful and trusting cosmic light that enriches and illuminates you on many levels, the wisdom that makes your actions more compassionate and harmonious, the liberating nature of this openness and clarity, and the enlightening knowledge of inspiration that you then experience.
Track 1: Tanpura male & female duet & shruti in B
The value and potency of this raga o Opens and relaxes the connection between the back of your head and the front of your heart.
o Makes you mild toward your past and offers new insights.
o Relaxes the ears, neck, throat, and shoulder-neck junction, and allows space to develop from the shoulders to the hands.
Track 2: Tanpura male 5-string in C-sharp
The value and potency of this raga o Cleanses and heals the Brow Chakra and gives you more confidence in your perception.
o Brings peace and helps you to accept yourself as you are.
o Loosens you from your personal interpretations and gives you a broader sense of self.