Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

June 1, 2014

Healing Vibration

Between the Santa Barbara Vedanta Society Temple and their bookstore 
is a massive twelfth-century bell, cast in Japan, which had 
once been rigged to a Chinese military ship.




As is well known, sound has great power over matter. By using sound it is possible to cause geometric patterns to form on sand and also cause objects to be shattered. How much more powerful, then, must be the impact of this force on the vibrating living substance of our sensitive human bodies. Scientists know that sound vibration is processed in the same area of the brain that deals with feelings and emotions, thus proving music's therapeutic potential. Used by clinicians to alleviate pain, boost immunity and lower pulse rates in hospitals, harmonic sounds can revitalize and strengthen the body and soul. Today modern society has become increasingly convinced of the therapeutic benefits of food prepared with love and positive thought vibrations. Let us make use of mantras, prasad, holy sites, relics of saints and soothing musical tones to calibrate and heal, through resonate power, the remotest reaches of the human psyche.  







January 17, 2014

Pravrajika Baradaprana


70 Years of Service


Know the Self, unborn, undying, 
Never ceasing, never beginning
Birthless, deathless, unchanging forever.
How can it die, the death of the body.
Bodies are said to die 
But that which possesses the body is eternal.
Know the Self, unchanging forever.

- Bhagavad Gita, Chp. 2, Translated by Swami Prabhavananda -