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Music therapy:
Music therapy is a scientific method of effective cures of disease through the power of music. It restores, maintains and improves emotional, physiological and psychological well being. The articulation, pitch, tone and specific arrangement of swaraas (Musical Notes) in a particular Raga stimulates, alleviates and cures various ailments inducing electro magnetic change in the body. Music therapy requires more than just intense meditation on sound. |
This Great Master understands the varying vibrational qualities of the different Ragas and knows which raga can help a particular disease.
Certain Ragas can only be played at selected times to be healing. So how does Swamiji apply this therapy? He explains:
"I primarily relay on my intuition when it comes to prescribing the right kind of music for a patient. When I see an ill person,
I can intuitively identify the kind of music that will benefit him. While specific Ragas like Nilambari, Charukesi and so on do have
special therapeutical properties, I also create my own combination of notes, in specified frequencies. I call this process 'Sampling'."
As a first step in this methodology, Swamiji requests various musicians to play several notes as specified by him on their respective instruments. Once Swamiji is convinced about the right note and its right frequency it is fed into the synthesizer that he describes as a modern Veena. The end product is a unique composition created by Swamiji that assures a primary or supplementary cure for diseases. Swamiji has also adapted the basic melodic structure of some select kritis of Saint Tyagaraja like Mokshamu Galada (Saramati), Shobillu Saptaswara (Jaganmohini), Samaja Vara Gamana (Hindolam) and so on.
The Music Therapy is combined with Ayurveda, Psychology, Gemenotherapy and Astrology, says Sri Swamiji. He further adds, I only affect a rapport between man and God, the supreme reality, with help coming from man himself in good measure. I attune man to God through belief and music. Once that results, body-consciousness vanishes gradually, and with that, affliction ceases to be experienced and ceases to exist. That is healing through Music and Meditation.
There are four distinct aspects of music namely:
Among the five elements, it is the Ether element (Akasha tattva), which is all pervading unlike all the other elements, which have more or less limited confines. Ether being all pervasive, its attribute (guna) that is Nada (sound) is also therefore all pervasive and hence most subtle and most effective. It is in this context that, as per yoga terminology, 'Nada Anusandhaan' (healing through sound) assumes its very appropriate yet mystic relevance to Shaktipat (a method through which yogi transforms the spiritual energy)
Pujya Sri Swamiji, being a Siddha Nada Yogi, is imbued with such an extraordinary ability to produce musical sound vibrations that they would penetrate into the five elements which human organism is made up of, according to the variation of these elements present in the human body. His music, traversing through the sensory perceptions of the listeners, would produce therapeutic effects... ......Contd.....
As a first step in this methodology, Swamiji requests various musicians to play several notes as specified by him on their respective instruments. Once Swamiji is convinced about the right note and its right frequency it is fed into the synthesizer that he describes as a modern Veena. The end product is a unique composition created by Swamiji that assures a primary or supplementary cure for diseases. Swamiji has also adapted the basic melodic structure of some select kritis of Saint Tyagaraja like Mokshamu Galada (Saramati), Shobillu Saptaswara (Jaganmohini), Samaja Vara Gamana (Hindolam) and so on.
The Music Therapy is combined with Ayurveda, Psychology, Gemenotherapy and Astrology, says Sri Swamiji. He further adds, I only affect a rapport between man and God, the supreme reality, with help coming from man himself in good measure. I attune man to God through belief and music. Once that results, body-consciousness vanishes gradually, and with that, affliction ceases to be experienced and ceases to exist. That is healing through Music and Meditation.
There are four distinct aspects of music namely:
- Popular - which induces motion of the body.
- Technical - which satisfies the intellect.
- Artistic - which portrays beauty and grace.
- Appealing - which pierces the heart.
- Uplifting ... where the soul hears the Music of the Spheres.
Sri Swamiji's music could be described to belong to this transcendental plane.
Among the five elements, it is the Ether element (Akasha tattva), which is all pervading unlike all the other elements, which have more or less limited confines. Ether being all pervasive, its attribute (guna) that is Nada (sound) is also therefore all pervasive and hence most subtle and most effective. It is in this context that, as per yoga terminology, 'Nada Anusandhaan' (healing through sound) assumes its very appropriate yet mystic relevance to Shaktipat (a method through which yogi transforms the spiritual energy)
Pujya Sri Swamiji, being a Siddha Nada Yogi, is imbued with such an extraordinary ability to produce musical sound vibrations that they would penetrate into the five elements which human organism is made up of, according to the variation of these elements present in the human body. His music, traversing through the sensory perceptions of the listeners, would produce therapeutic effects... ......Contd.....