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While words have their intellectual appeal, instrumental music can sometimes create an openness that language cannot. Among the many instrumental pieces Sounds of Isha has created to manifest different ambiences, Madhyamavathi is one of the more beautiful ones. The name reflects the raga on which the song is based. 

We have also had the fortune of some part-time volunteers, who have contributed to our music. We could use this opportunity to say how Sounds of Isha is not just some small group of people in the ashram but consists of so many meditators all over India and the world, all contributing to the music and connected with the common bond of Sadhguru's Grace. 

The flute melody for this piece was composed by one of our meditators. He wanted to offer it to sadhguru and as we worked with it to create a song, we had the fortune of roping in a few more contributors from amongst our volunteers. The result is what you hear. 

We had no particular plan as to what ambience to manifest through this song. However, from our experience, we find that it can be soulful, meditative or relaxing–soothing and settling. 

Let us know how you experience it!


Madhyamavathi

Aditya Hridyam

In Devanagari:
तत् सवितुर्वरेण्यं ।
भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि ।
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥
In IAST:
tát savitúr váreṇyaṃ
bhárgo devásya dhīmahi
dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt

Jagjit Singh - Gayatri Mantra Chant With Rhythm

Jahnavi Harrison - Vrikshavalli Hare Krishna feat. Gaura Vani

Short clips from my debut album, available to purchase online on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and on Mantralogy.com



Vrikshavalli Hare Krishna

உடுக்கும் ஊன் அடக்கியான்
 நடப்பினை ஒடுக்கியான்
 படைப்பினை கடத்துவான்
 கடைநிலை உணர்த்துவான்;

தடுக்கும் உந்தன் ஊழ்வினை
முடக்கும் உன் மனம்தனை
கடந்து செல்ல உந்துவான்
கடைநிலை உணர்த்துவான்;

நிறைவு காணும் மறை வகுத்த ஆதியோகி
மறைகள் போற்றும் அருளின் ஊற்று ஆதியோகி;

வினைவழி செல்லும் மனம்
நினை வழித்திடும் விதம்
தடைகளை அகற்றுவான்
கடைநிலை உணர்த்துவான்;

மறைந்திடா தடைகளை
கரைத்திடும் முறைகளை
கருத்தினில் நிறுத்துவான்
கடைநிலை உணர்த்துவான்;

இறப்பினை விடுத்திட
பிறப்பினை அறுத்திட
அறத்தினில் நிறுத்துவான்
கடைநிலை உணர்த்துவான்;

சப்த யோகி வேண்டியே
சப்த நாடி தாண்டியே
சப்தத்தை அடக்கியான்
கடைநிலை உணர்த்துவான்.

ஆதியோகி ஈஷா - Adiyogi Isha

Vishnu Sahasranamam

Hari Narayana

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Linga Bhairavi Stuthi 3C

Jaya Jaya Mahadeva Sadhguru & Sonu Nigam

Shivashtakam - Shiv Shiva Anuraag - Pandit Jasraj - Raag Gunakali

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This rendition of the Yogeshwaraya chant, also known as the Shiva Stotram, is composed by Sounds of Isha. It begins with an invocation by Sadhguru.
	
In the Indian tradition, Shiva, the Adiyogi has many forms, each of which represents a powerful possibility for inner evolution. Yogeshwaraya - meaning the lord of Yoga - is a musical offering to Adiyogi by Sounds of Isha, Pandit Jasraj and Rakesh Chaurasia.
 
In the yogic tradition, Shiva is not worshiped as a God. He is the Adiyogi, the first Yogi, and Adi Guru, the First Guru from whom the yogic sciences originated. Guru Purnima is celebrated as the day when Adiyogi began the transmission of these sciences to the Saptarishis, his first seven disciples. So this Guru purnima, this is our musical garland. An offering of different renditions of the Yogeshwaraya chant to the Adiyogi.

Lyrics and Meaning: 

Yogeshwaraya Mahadevaya
The Lord of Yoga, the great one

Trayambakaya Tripurantakaya
Three-eyed one, destroyer of the Tripura

Trikagni Kalaya Kalagni Rudraya
He who like fire, devours the past, present and future within himself

Neelakantaya Mrityunjayaya
Blue-throated one, who has conquered death 

Sarveshwaraya Sadashivaya 
Lord of everything, the eternal one

Mahadevaya Namaha
Oh great one, we bow down to you

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Yogeshwaraya - The Source Of Yoga

Yogeshwaraya Mahadevaya - Sadhguru and Sounds of Isha | Sadhguru | Shiva Stotram

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isha.sadhguru.org/Thevaram

Lyrics and meaning: isha.sadhguru.org/Thevaram

Thevarams are devotional hymns sung in praise of Shiva by the 3 Nayanmars: Sambandar, Thirunavukkarasar and Sundarar. Rendered in an ancient musical style that precedes most Indian classical music systems, these songs give us an insight into the wave of bhakti that swept across southern India during the 7th Century. In this album, children of Isha Samskriti have rendered a select few Thevaram, as an offering to today’s world. 

The Nayanmars travelled the length and breadth of South India, predominantly in current day Tamil Nadu, and the temples in this region find a place in their songs. The 275 temples mentioned in Thevaram are referred to as “Paadal Petra Thalam,” which literally means “the temples that were sung in the verses”. The singing of Thevaram is still an active process in many Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu.  

It is said that at the age of three, Sambandar was taken to a temple, where Shiva and Parvati had appeared before him. After a while, the child’s father noticed drops of milk on his lips. it is said that he was fed the milk of wisdom by goddess Parvathi herself. When asked about it, the child broke into a song - Thodudaiya Seviyan.

“The man connected with Divine wisdom” or Thiru Gnana Sambandar was a young, a bala yogi from around the 7th century CE, Tamil Nadu. He couldn’t teach since he was a child, so he sang wonderfully to express his enlightenment.  He challenged the existing belief systems through his poetry and discourses. The first three of the Thirumurai are compilations of his poems. 
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Thodudaiya Seviyan

Download or listen online: 
isha.sadhguru.org/Thevaram

Lyrics and meaning: isha.sadhguru.org/Thevaram
 
Thevarams are devotional hymns sung in praise of Shiva by the 3 Nayanmars: Sambandar, Thirunavukkarasar and Sundarar. Rendered in an ancient musical style that precedes most Indian classical music systems, these songs give us an insight into the wave of bhakti that swept across southern India during the 7th Century. In this album, children of Isha Samskriti have rendered a select few Thevaram, as an offering to today’s world. 

The Nayanmars travelled the length and breadth of South India, predominantly in current day Tamil Nadu, and the temples in this region find a place in their songs. The 275 temples mentioned in Thevaram are referred to as “Paadal Petra Thalam,” which literally means “the temples that were sung in the verses”. The singing of Thevaram is still an active process in many Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu.  

When Sundarar was to be married, it is said the Shiva, disguised as an old man, interrupted the process and claimed that he was pledged to serve him. Disbelief was rife, and Sundarar called him a madman, or a “Pithan”, denying he belongs to him. The ascetic proved his claim by a written manuscript and whisked Sundarar away from his own wedding. That man was Shiva himself. Upon realizing Shiva’s true form, Sundarar composed this Thevaram, lamenting continuously to Him, “How can I not be yours?”

Sundarar was an 8th century poet from Thirunavalur, Tamil Nadu, and one of the Nayanars - the Shiva bhakti poets of Tamil Nadu. His origin's can be traced back to Bharadwaj who is one of the famed Saptarishis. Sundarar himself, travelled to many Shiva temples in South India and composed close to 1000 poems, which are compiled in the Thirumarai – a compilation of Poems on Shiva.

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Pitha Pirai Soodi

Bilvashtakam

Sri Rudram (lyrics and meanings)

Mystics have always used sound in ways far beyond the realm of mere entertainment - by breathing in an ethereal dimension into simple rustic sounds from life around to give us a taste of the beyond. A simple twang of the ektara often did what a thousand words could not do to touch people.

Sounds of Isha is Sadhguru's own home grown, anomalous group of 'musicians' - inspired by their deep yearning and sense of gratitude. Dabbling with and melting into their instruments, their work is a subtle fusion of the rich and diverse beings that they are. The group members are full-time volunteers with Isha Foundation, living a life of dedication and austerity; thus, their inspirational songs are usually created after a full day's activity, due to their passion and zest to share a different dimension of the foundation's work.

Their melodies are a fusion of music from different parts of the world - traversing effortlessly and seamlessly across boundaries and cultures. Whilst the music of these songs sooth our minds and the melodies enthrall us, the true potential of the songs is in their capability to instill in us an element of the eternal silence that touches the core of the human being. The performances of Sounds of Isha are set apart to deliver a potent and intoxicating ethereal concoction, transporting those who listen into subtler states of being - becoming the basis for inner exploration.

Pitha Pirai Soodi

Sounds of Isha

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