Viha magazine Nov/Dec 2013 | Page 16
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SOUNDS on THE SENSES
MEDITATION RAGAS BY CHINMAYA DUNSTER;
NEW EARTH RECORDS, 2013
of one of the physical senses, plus
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The music began, somehow. The fingers touched the sarod, and
sounds emerged. The inspiration came, somehow. The wind, the
wave, the flower, the fruit tickled the skin, the ears, the vision, the
smell, the taste. The senses poured i n t o the heart, elevating i t , higher
and higher, toward the One - awake, aware, alert.
If you ask Chinmaya
D u n s t e r , h e just laughs
and says, " M y fingers
just go there. And o u t
it comes!” The magic of
the music! Perhaps, it’s
his love affair with the
rhythms that evokes it.
Perhaps it is his playful‑
ness. Perhaps it is just
magic - a gentleness, the
sound softly kissing the
silence, making it deeper,
heart chakra (Heart Meditation), and
another for the shastrar (Consciousness
Meditation). The liner notes include
short meditation instructions and a
quote from Osho's Book of the Secrets for
each track, making this CDa beautiful
and practical tool for our meditation
H
practice.'
Chinmaya: [email protected];
Damini: prabhudamini©gmailcom
Meditation Ragas is available from Viha
for $12.95 plus shipping.
My Vow/W7
richer.
Chinmaya’s journey began in 1975, on a hippie trail from. the UK
to India. Passing through Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, he was
touched by the music of the East. In it he felt a deep acceptance, a
surrender to something that was beyond the intellect, beyond the
seen, the said, the heard. Terra Incognita, the unknown land, was the
title of his first album. His latest, Meditation Ragas, is on the journey
to that unknown land, a journey that traverses the seen, the said, the
heard ‐ our senses.
Each sensory organ can be experienced in t w