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The Power of Love: A Q&A with Krishna Das

By Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

Kirtan master Krishna Das spoke with us about spiritual practice, suffering, and finding love within.

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Projecting Intention

‘Sound is a carrier wave of consciousness,’ Steven said. This means that depending upon where an individual’s awareness is placed when he creates a certain sound, the sound will carry information on that state to the person receiving it.

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Jonathan Goldman
2017
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Planetary Healing Sounds

The following article contains information about three short and powerful mantras—sacred sounds that may effectively be used individually or in groups for transformation: “OM”, “AH” and “HU”. These mantras are particularly useful sounds for projecting specific intentions.

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Jonathan Goldman
2017
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The ‘Ah’ Sound to Generate Peace and Compassion

[AH] is an extremely powerful sound—particularly useful for generating peace and compassion.

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Jonathan Goldman
2017
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What’s the Buzz? Sound Therapy

Mr. Goldman draws an analogy between sound healing and prayer. Many cultures, he said, believe that vocalizing a prayer amplifies it. By the same token, he said, expressing what you want a sound to accomplish, can help you heal yourself—or someone else.

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Stephanie Rosenbloom
2005
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Forgiveness: The Bridge Between Self & Soul

Forgiveness is an interesting phenomenon. As you learn to forgive and to say, “Of course you’re human,” or, “We all do that,” you open up your heart to embrace the person or the situation back into you.

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Ram Dass
2015
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Should Christians Do Yoga?

A few weeks ago, a Baptist minister in Texas started a rumble, or at least a small brouhaha, when he declared that yoga is not suitable for Christians. His point was that using the body for spiritual practice contradicts basic Christian principles.

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Sally Kempton
2010
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Krishna Das Interview

On Kirtan, what makes music sacred, and his inspiration from Neem Karoli Baba.

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Llew Smith and Annie Stopford
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Krishna Das: Bhakti with a Dash of Blues

“I understand there are people who feel that what happens in the West with chanting is ridiculous—what do we know about chanting?” says Krishna Das, the white guy from Long Island whose name is synonymous with Indian mantric music in America. “That’s really dumb.

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Anna Dubrovsky
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Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls

“Without music life would be a mistake,” Nietzsche proclaimed in 1889.

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Maria Popova
2016
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