Heartstrings
When I get quiet now, I can often hear
Om Namah Shivaya
so softly chanting in my ear.
It happens automatically,
like I’m not chanting it.
It is chanting me.
I feel it in my heart,
like my heart has heartstrings
that vibrate with a gentle bliss
when they are strummed
by the divine sound of
Om Namah Shivaya
that I hear
so softly chanting in my ear.
When I get quiet now, I can often hear
Om Namah Shivaya
so softly chanting in my ear.
It happens automatically,
like I’m not chanting it.
It is chanting me.
I feel it in my heart,
like my heart has heartstrings
that vibrate with a gentle bliss
when they are strummed
by the divine sound of
Om Namah Shivaya
that I hear
so softly chanting in my ear.
California, United States
This photo of Gurumayi and the ektar is the one that called me, the first one I clicked on. It reminded me of a Siddha Yoga satsang with Gurumayi in Manhattan in 1985, in which we chanted Jay Jay Vitthale and Gurumayi played the ektar. It was the first time I heard that chant, or the ektar, or experienced such ecstasy.
Since then, and for many years, one of the sevas I have offered has been as a lead chanter. That initial ecstasy has sprouted into a blossoming forest. There is nothing like Siddha Yoga chanting! It is my mooring, my teacher, my port of safety and solace—my direct and immediate connection to the divine.
Synchronistically, tonight’s chant is Jay Jay Vitthale. Whenever I chant it, I connect to that first time, and realize how much quieter my mind and my life have become.
And for this I give thousands of thanks to Gurumayi and the Siddha Yoga path.
Since then, and for many years, one of the sevas I have offered has been as a lead chanter. That initial ecstasy has sprouted into a blossoming forest. There is nothing like Siddha Yoga chanting! It is my mooring, my teacher, my port of safety and solace—my direct and immediate connection to the divine.
Synchronistically, tonight’s chant is Jay Jay Vitthale. Whenever I chant it, I connect to that first time, and realize how much quieter my mind and my life have become.
And for this I give thousands of thanks to Gurumayi and the Siddha Yoga path.
California, United States