• Combine the Universal mantra "Baba Nam Kevalam" with music and sing it out loud. When mantra is set to music it is known as "kiirtan". There are many beautiful kiirtans that you can sing along to, or you can also improvise your own melody if you are musically inclined.
  
  
• After singing mantra, sit down and follow the instructions for basic meditation. You will find that singing has created a momentum in your mind, allowing the mantra to flow more easily. Instead of simply repeating the mantra, it is even more effective to continue singing it with a melody internally.
  
  
• If you discover that the mantra music spontaneously arises in your mind, the way that a catchy tune gets "stuck" in your head, this is wonderful. It means the effect of mantra is penetrating into your subconsciousness and that the meditative flow and its benefits can enter into your daily rhythms, not just when sitting to meditate with eyes closed.
  
  
• Listen to kiirtan melodies during the day, while working, in order to help the mind flow in a spiritual direction. This will make sitting practice easier.

As you sing, the physical vibration of the mantra is resonating in your chest, throat, head, and whole body. This is why singing is so much more powerful than passively listening. This allows the vibration of the mantra to harmonize the physical energy of your body much more quickly.

While singing, the throat center "vishuddha chakra" is being used, which contributes to the development of intelligence, rationality, intuition, selflessness, voice and charisma.


Music can express an endless variety of subtle emotional states. We are attracted to certain kinds of music according to our moods and the feeling we want to express. There are kiirtan melodies that express joy and others that express longing or melancholy. By choosing a melody that fits your mood and taste, your mind will more easily enter into the flow of mantra, also when you continue the meditation in silence.

As you listen to the music and your own singing, your mind is more easily absorbed in taking the form of the mantra vibration. This means, that in accordance with the "you are what you are thinking about" principle, during the process of singing, the mind is taking the form of the mantra's purifying vibration both when it forms and expresses the idea through singing, and when it receives the idea by listening, effectively doubling the mantra's impact.

At first, you attempt to understand the idea of Consciousness with your intellect, however, it is a paradox. That infinite, higher Consciousness is too subtle to be perceived with intellect. That is why we must transcend intellect and open the gates to intuition, where we can access the awareness of a miraculous, mystical presence of Oneness.

Using music helps to bypass the overactive yet limited intellect. It shifts our mood and channelizes our emotions constructively. This can awaken the subtler expression of mystical emotions that in time can lead us towards higher states of ecstasy and a deeper flow in the meditation.

You sing and meditate about the divinity that is inside of you – internally and externally.

Practice 5-15 minutes of dynamic, singing meditation and then sit to continue meditating in silence. Once the flow has been established through singing and music, it is much easier to keep it flowing in silence as well.

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