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Majhe

Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma

Ram kahiye Ram japiye Bhimsen joshi

Shri Narasimha Kavacha Stotram

"Politics and people will let you down and life can be very disappointing. At such a time, when you hear Krishna's flute... how can you resist?" - Cheb I Sabbah. 

"Live at Rudra Mandir" is the Kirtaniyas's first live album recorded on February 02/15/2013 at Rudra Mandir in Berkeley, California. 

The project was produced by the late Cheb I Sabbah who mixed and supervised mastering of the recording and was his last musical project. 

Kirtaniyas are ever grateful for the opportunity to sing the glorious names of the Divine in a traditional form, using melodies and rhythms taken from the ancient Bhakti lands such as Vrindavan, India and Navadipa, Mayapura, India.
credits
released 13 January 2014 

Lead vocals: Vijay Krsna 
Co-lead vocals: Jahnava Dasi 
Violin and backing vocals: Sarasvati Dasi 
Mrdanga: Madhumangala Das 
Backing vocals: Prajna Vieira 
Karatals and backing vocals: David Estes (Ananda Rasa Kirtan) 

Producer: Cheb I Sabbah 
Recording engineer: Michael Braden at Seven Channel Sound. 
Mastered by: Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio NYC. 
Executive producer: Vrindaban Misri. 
Co-executive producer: Anurag. 
Photo: © LakshmiGrace Designs.com 

Special thanks: Lloyd Barde for booking and promoting the event, KD Devi Dasi for creating and alter. Rob and Elizabeth Sidon for sending their beautiful Krsna deity blessing the Kirtan.

Radhe Syam - Live at Rudra Mandir - Kirtaniyas

Śrī Sūkta, also called Śrī Sūktam, is a Sanskrit devotional hymn (set of shlokas / Śloka-s) revering Śrī as Lakṣmī, the Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity and fertility. Śrī Sūkta is recited, with a strict adherence to the Chandas, to invoke the goddess' blessings. The hymns are found in the Rig Vedic khilanis, which are appendices to the Ṛkveda that probably date to pre-Buddhist times.
The goddess Śrī appears in several earlier vedic hymns, and is the personification of auspicious and royal qualities. Śrī Sūkta is perhaps the first text in which the homology between Śrī and Lakṣmī is drawn, and the goddesses are further associated with the god of fire, Agni. Since the later epic period (ca 400 CE), Śrī-Lakṣmī is particularly associated with Viṣṇu as his wife or consort.
The Śrī Sūkta describes Śrī as glorious, ornamented, royal, lustrous as gold, and radiant as fire, moon and the sun. She is addressed as the bestower of fame, bounty and abundance in the form of gold, cattle, horses and food; and entreated to banish her sister alakṣmī (misfortune), who is associated with need, hunger, thirst and poverty. The hymn also associates Śrī with (agrarian) fertility and she is described as the mother of Kārdama (mud), moist, perceptible through odour, dwelling in cowdung and producing abundant harvest. 

The Śrī Sūktam assumes specific significance because of Śrī Mahālakṣmī's presence on Lord Śrī Venkaṭeśvara, at Tirumala, or Viṣṇu's chest, at the Heart. Lakṣmi is the embodiment of Love, from which devotion to God or Bhakti flows. It is through Love/Bhakti or Lakṣmī that the Ātmā or soul is able to reach God or Viṣṇu.

Śrī or Lakṣmī is also the personification of the spiritual energy within us and universe called kuṇḍalinī. Also, She embodies the Spiritual World or Vaikuṇtha; the abode of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa or Viṣṇu, not to be confused with Heaven, as The Heavenly Planets are still part of the Material Universe. Vaikuṇtha-Dham is purely spiritual, eternal and self illuminating. She is also supposed to have the Divine qualities of God and the soul. Lakshmi is God's superior spiritual feminine energy or the Param Prākṛti, which purifies, empowers and uplifts the individual. Hence, She is called the Goddess of Fortune.

The Śrī Sūkta uses the motifs of lotus (padma or kamala) and elephant (gaja) – symbols that are consistently linked with the goddess Śrī-Lakṣmī in later references. The lotus is thought to be symbolic of purity, beauty, spiritual power, life, fertility, growth or, in Tantra, the entire created universe. It is a recurring motif in Hindu (as well as Buddhist and Jain) literature and a lotus growing from Viṣṇu's navel is said to mark the beginning of a new cosmic creation. The elephants are symbolic of royalty and, in Hindu mythology, are also related with cloud and rain; they thus reinforce Śrī-Lakṣmī's stature as the goddess of abundance and fertility.

Later Hindu iconography often represents Śrī-Lakṣmī in the form of Gaja-Lakṣmī, standing on a lotus, flanked by two elephants that are shown showering her with water with their trunks. 
The Śrī Sūkta is one of the Pañca-Sūktam (5 Suktams) recited during the 3-hour long Abhiṣeka of Venkateswara, at the famed ancient Hill Shrine of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in Andhra Pradesh, India. The Abhiṣekam to the main deity is performed every Friday. Śrī Sūkta is also recited during the daily Arjitha Vasanthotsavam seva.

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My track is somehow connected with the late Janaki who was an instrumental supporter of the Mantra Lounge albums.
It's a tune we jammed together before & one I enjoy doing when in deep mood of separation.
I put it forward to Jag, the producer & he took an immediate like to it.

Pre-order now on Itunes: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1464593974

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Maha Mantra - In The Mood Of Separation - Narada

Guitar & Vocals: Madhava Narasimha Das 
Vocals: Nikunja Gopi DD - Nirupama Nandhini DD - Kokilavana Radhalila dd  - B.Meera Rajan

Maha Mantra - Hare Krishna

youtube.com/watch?v=XHluPUeB8wU

hare krishna mahamantra chanting with prabhupada..really heart touching

My interpretation of a Pt. Ravishankar composition from the album 'Chants of India'.
This version was produced and arranged for the dance production 'Aum Sadgurubhyo Namaha'.
Singers: Ramya Sundaresan Kapadia & Rajiv Sundaresan
Arranger: Rajiv Sundaresan

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