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Resonances of Peace
Ragas for Sahasrara – the Crown Chakra
Tanpura male & swaramandala in C-sharp: relaxes the crown chakra, has a soothing effect on increased mental activity, lets you be at peace with who you are and induces your inner engagement with everything around you.
Tanpura duet male 5-strings & male 4-strings in F-sharp: opens your nervous system, connects all chakras with each other, offers supports to all chakras from the base chakra, and brings peace by surrerdering to the fullness of life.
Ragas
1. Tanpura male & swaramandala in C-sharp (28.12 minutes)
2. Tanpura duet male 5-strings & male 4-strings in F-sharp (35.19 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 Crown Chakra
The Crown Chakra has the Sanskrit name Sahasrara. The word Sahasrara means “thousand” and indicates the infinite, limitless, cosmic value and vastness of this chakra. This chakra is also portrayed as a thousand-petaled, fully opened lotus flower. Located near the crown, Sahasrara has its radiance toward the crown and reaches into the center of the brain. It is associated with the cerebral cortex and also with the pituitary gland, indicating a clear connection with Ajna, to which it transmits its light. Sahasrara houses the potencies of all the chakras and perceives all levels of your humanity as one.
The energy of this chakra consists only of pure consciousness and it connects you to the purest wisdom that a human being can become aware of, it is unlimited as a kind of cosmic consciousness. This energy has nothing to do with personal development, it leaves that behind and only illuminates the whole as a source of inspiration for your spiritual path and for the enlightenment of the essence or soul within you. In the radiance of this purity, peace, truth, honesty, love, strength, longing and being feel completely at home and enlightened. You recognize the activity of this chakra by the blessings of peace, that touch your inner being and radiate outward from there. When this cosmic consciousness connects with your being, when the energy of this chakra can be added to all the energies of your spiritual growth, spatial consciousness and existential being come together and you experience the wholeness of being fully aware. The “dormant” being in Muladhara is awakened and, polished and purified through various cleansings in the chakra centers, finally comes together with Cosmic Consciousness as the still, enlightened, peaceful, most essential and existential Being. The soul then rests peacefully in the heart and you feel a spiritual homecoming, resting in the mother's womb of creation, in the essential nature and origin of all.
The first and seventh chakras, “being” and “complete awareness,” neutralize each other and lead to “being” aware. The second and sixth chakras, “duality” and “clear discrimination,” neutralize each other and lead to insight, deepening your awareness of being here. The third and fifth chakras, “the will of the ego” and “the healing power of purification,” neutralize each other and lead to inner peace, further deepening your awareness of being here. And the fourth chakra, the center of the entire chakra system and of your human development, thereby comes to rest, and its love becomes the peaceful foundation for your soul, which is now illuminated by the purity and wholeness of the cosmic, divine light of consciousness.
Track 1: Tanpura male & swaramandala in C-sharp
The value and potency of this raga o Relaxes the Crown Chakra and soothes increased mental activity. o Lets you be at peace with who you are. o Helps you to engage with everything around you from your inner being.
Track 2: Tanpura duet male 5-strings & male 4-strings in F-sharp
The value and potency of this raga o Opens your nervous system, connects all chakras into a spiritual dimension and deepens your connection to the Base Chakra and its foundation and support of all other chakras. o Opens the chakras to unknown energies and expands the boundaries of your aura. o Brings peace as you surrender to the unknown fullness of life.