The Art of Kirtan

I learned to chant as a way to open the heart for meditation. One can also chant for the sheer joy of chanting. We can be inspired by listening to another’s devotional chanting. We can be transformed by chanting from the heart ourselves. Our Divine Source doesn’t care if we sing well, or have beautiful voices. The One doesn’t care if we stay on the tune — as long as we are in tune in the heart.

My friends and I loved making this record, because we made love to the Divine with our chanting. That is all you have to do to transform yourself with a chant.

Concentrate at the heart center, sing from the heart, offer your love to the One who made you. Then take that love inside in the stillness, raise your inner gaze to the point between the eyebrows, and repeat the words of the chant in silent devotion to that aspect of God that touches your heart.

Christ, Krishna, the Divine Mother, or the Light Itself; we can choose – God approaches us on whatever path by which we choose to approach God.