Name: Tanpura - Sa-Pa-Sa Tuning by Koti Madhav Balu Chowdary
Duration: 12 min 42 s
Description: A Tambura (Tanpura) is a classical four (or five) stringed drone instrument, which is a very important part of every Indian concert. It is plucked throughout the concert and serves as the reference point (basic pitch) for performers so as to enable them to render all the other notes in their proper relative positions.

Purport by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The tongue is the most important sense within the body. Therefore it is recommended that if we want to control our senses we should first control the tongue. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has emphasized this. He describes our present conditioned state as sarira avidya-jal: we are packed up in the network of this material body, and we are just like a fish caught within a net. And not only are we caught in this body; we are also changing this "net" life after life, through 8,400,000 species. In this way we stay caught in the network of ignorance. Then, jodendriya tahe kal: our imprisonment within this network of ignorance is being continued on account of our desire for sense enjoyment. And out of all the senses, Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, the tongue is the most dangerous.

Prabhupada - Prasadam - Mantra

Sri Damodarastaka

A Tambura (Tanpura) is a classical four (or five) stringed drone instrument, which is a very important part of every Indian concert. It is plucked throughout the concert and serves as the reference point (basic pitch) for performers so as to enable them to render all the other notes in their proper relative positions. 

Tanpura - Sa-Pa-Sa Tuning

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On the shores of a mystical ocean
There lies a cave with a magical door
All are welcome but those who enter
Never shall return not a single day more

Do you feel the rhythm of my heart beat
Beating in time with the drum in your hands
Fly away on the waves of the ocean
Seeking and finding the butterfly people

Gate Gate Para Gate
Parasam Gate Bodhi Soha

Here are a few translations for the Mantra/Heart Sutra:
*Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond. Oh what an awakening! All hail!
*Gone, gone, gone beyond altogether beyond, Awakening, fulfilled!
*Gone, gone, gone to the Other Shore, attained the Other Shore having never left.
*Gone, gone, totally gone, totally completely gone, enlightened, so be it.
*”Oh, you have done! You have done! You have completely crossed the margin. This is Enlightenment! Congratulations!”

Use the mantra of the Prajna Paramita to take you beyond. Let it take you to the other shore. Allow it to awaken you. Let it remind you of your becoming. Let it carry you away without your leaving.

~ Traditional song & Mantra ~

Butterfly People ~ Walk in Beauty *

"Realize and Analyze Yourself" - This is the quote I would prefer to follow. Being the self learner, I admire Sanatana Dharma and trying to learn the basics of living.

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Tanpura - Sa-Pa-Sa Tuning

Koti Madhav Balu Chowdary

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