Songs and poetry can often say much, by saying little. They are not obliged to explain, just to offer glimpses into a world that perhaps attracts or inspires you. That’s their beauty.
Swami Nishchalananda may not have realised that he was a musician but when he arrived at Bihar school of Yoga many years ago he became eager to learn the Indian chants and bhajan that his Guru and others included in their devotional practice and soon became proficient in both the music and their rhythms.
Years on, Swamiji brought that tradition back to the UK and it became part of the environment at Mandala Yoga Ashram.
It’s been my experience (Narada, blog editor), that even though I am not at all a bhakti Yogi, mostly unmoved by devotional practice except in the depths of my own heart, that when I hear Swamiji sing I feel the resonance and have to join in most enthusiastically. It’s like Satsang. If the person expressing themselves is doing so from the heart, and that heart is established in the stillness of the Self or at least in a recognition that they are in essence rooted in that simplest state of Awareness, then it will resonate most strongly with the person who listens with an empty mind. A mind eager to be reminded that they too are none other than nameless Awareness.
Please enjoy the recordings that this article points to with the link below (click on the link text). They have been made by Swamiji since his return from India and are a simple celebration of the Joy of Being.
Swami Nishchalananda 