What is Spiritual Sound Vibration?

If you said "water water " would you taste water and would it quench your thirst? If you said "banana banana " would you taste banana?
No I don't think so. This is the difference between mundane material words and spiritual sound vibrations. Spiritual sound actually feeds the soul spiritual food and quenches our spiritual thirst.
Spiritual sounds are beautiful, heartfelt singing of sacred mantras or many Names of the One Supreme Person God.  Many times this devotional chanting will be accompanied by musical instruments like harmonium, guitar and drums. Kirtan is usually practiced as a call and response interactive meditation with one person leading  and then everyone responding as a group. Participation in Kirtan focuses the mind very easily and naturally on the beautiful spiritual sound vibrations, which have the effect reawakening one’s spiritual consciousness and heart connection with the Supreme and their individual truest nature. Kirtan lifts the spirit and brings joy to the heart.
 The great scholar and honored teacher of Bhakti yoga (loving devotion to God) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in India around 500 hundred years ago (1486–1534) and dedicated His life to teaching by example through continual chanting of the sacred sounds vibrations of The Holy Names of The Supreme Person. These mantra's or Names of God that are sung and chanted are spiritual sound vibrations and have the ability to bring about self realization or enlightenment. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu best describes this in His 8 famous verses known as Siksastakam a simple extraction from just one of these verses composed is as follows “The Holy Names of God are the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon, it increases the ocean of transcendental bliss and enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious.”


We invite you to reawaken your spiritual consciousness and be transported to a place of peace and harmony join us for Sacred Kirtan on Sundays 6pm on the island of Kauai Hawaii and dive into this beautiful devotional Bhakti Yoga practice .The heart and soul of the evening is the joyous, enlivening chanting creating a unique spiritual journey.

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Looking For Love?

What is life without love? Google “love” and you’ll get over a billion hits. Countless books, movies, and songs about love have been written and performed. The internet abounds with dating, matchmaking and social networking sites. It’s safe to say that we are all looking for love. How is it that the human spirit can survive incredible physical and mental hardships while sustained by love- yet we quickly wither and die of a broken heart? Why are we looking for love? It is because of the nature of spiritual energy. Yoga teaches that we are not our physical bodies or mind, that each of us is spirit in essence. The living being is a spark of the Supreme Spirit, and as such, a spark of love. The essence of spirit is love. A living being is not just “life” but a spark of pure love. Just as the very essence and nature of water is wetness, the very essence and nature of the living entity is to love and be loved in return. Being sparks of love, the living being wants and needs love. In fact, the living being craves and survives on love. The trouble for the soul begins when we look for love in all the wrong places. We are all looking for that perfect person to love, to take protection from and to cure us of our inner loneliness. We may go from one person to the next looking for that perfect person, but they always fall short and we end up disappointed time after time, experiencing “something is missing." Why is that?

We are a spark of the Supreme Ocean of Love and long for a degree of love that can only be found in the Supreme perfect person, no other individual can satisfy our complete need to love and be loved. We should not expect that anyone else can truly and fully satisfy us. The Supreme Person is the perfection of love. The Supreme Spirit is the Supreme Love, Beloved and Lover Whose very essence is Love. The very sound of His Names are the sound manifestation of Love. The Supreme Person is the reservoir of love and therefore the reservoir of pleasure for the living being. Our natural condition is to again experience the perfection of love by being united in a harmonious relationship with that supreme perfect loving and lovable friend. When we speak about the relationship between the soul and the Supreme Soul, we are speaking of love with all the characteristics that come with love; it is a love full of action and reciprocation. It is the world of Spiritual Love. If you would like to inquire further regarding the spiritual teaching of yoga and how you can personally develop such spiritual love in your own life we warmly invite you to attend our Sunday Spiritual Gathering. In future issues we continue this theme of looking for love and explore how we can spiritualize our relationships with others.

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Pure love for God ॐ is eternally established in the hearts of the living entities. It is not something to be gained from another source. When the heart is purified by hearing & chanting, this love naturally awakens. ~ Lord Chaitanya to Sanatana Gosvami