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Resonances of Love
Ragas for Anahata – the Heart Chakra
Tanpura male 5-string & swaramandala in F-sharp: connects you to the centre of the chakra system, relieves the heart of heartache and lets you rediscover the innate love within.
Tanpura male - female & shruti in D: heals the anahata chakra (4th at the rear), lessens the impact of your conditioning on love and opens the lotus of your heart, one petal at a time.
Ragas
1. Tanpura male 5-string & swaramandala in F-sharp
(37.37 minutes)
2. Tanpura male - female & shruti in D (34.24 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 Heart Chakra
The Heart Chakra has the Sanskrit name Anahata. The Sanskrit word ana means “not” and the word ahata means “struck,” so it literally translates as “unstruck,” “unhurt” or “unbeaten.” In other words, Anahata means “sound produced without touching the strings,” that is, a sound produced only by resonating with a very subtle vibration. Because chakras are energy centers that contain essential energies, this is an area that cannot be touched or reached by personal interests. Although this chakra is located in the heart region and is associated with the plexus cardiacus (the heart), like all chakras it is separate from the body as a vortex of pranic energy. It can be felt at and behind the center of the breastbone (sternum) and in the line from there to your nipples. As an added dimension, the Heart Chakra also becomes connected to the hand chakras, when the hands are allowed to act as givers and receivers of love.
Anahata houses the energies related to love, relationships, affinity and compassion, and the happiness you feel when you live from, with and in love. Love is a quality that transcends personal interests, unless you confuse love with a form of gaining power. The love energy of this chakra is not so much a value for something or someone, but rather an energy that expands your experience and gives you freedom, for everything that is given the space and freedom to exist feels loved. When you allow the energies of Anahata, you are basically immediately giving everything you experience the freedom to be what it is, to know it as such, and to explore what it can do for you on your spiritual path. You recognize this energy of love in your care for the happiness of others and in the openness with which you relate to everything in your life. This is the energy of empathy, which elevates your emotional experience above the personal orientation of the ego and can be recognized as affection, compassion, and love. Anahata is also associated with experiencing essence and your individual soul. Located in the middle of the seven major chakras, Anahata is considered an important area for meditation (medi is Latin for “middle”).
The energies of this chakra make you aware of aspects of your humanity that are not defined by personal rivalries and interests. Once you have had a taste of these energies and have felt the promise of being completely whole, by feeling loved and embrace in wholeness, it will spark your longing to become more established in the oneness you carry within. Then you will truly be touched by the untouchable beauty and depth of love, by the vastness of these heart energies and their fulfilling richness. And you will realize that what you have been missing so deeply does indeed exist, and can become true in you.
Track 1: Tanpura male 5-string & swaramandala in F-sharp
The value and potency of this raga o Connects you to the center of the chakra system and lets you trust that life is benign. o Relaxes your Heart Chakra and from there the connection between your Heart and Stomach Chakra, between love and action. o Relieves the heart of heartache and lets you rediscover the love you have always carried within.
Track 2: Tanpura male & female & shruti in D
The value and potency of this raga o Has a healing effect on Anahata (4th) at the back of the spine. o Reduces the impact of your conditioning on love and promotes the value of tolerance. o Opens the lotus of your heart petal by petal.