Songs of My Heart

Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 612348200525
EAN: 0612348200525
ASIN: B000062VWX

Release Date: 2000-07-01

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"If music be the food of love ..Play on"
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Tracks:

Prayer at Dawn
-3. O God Beautiful!
-5. Hay Hari Sundara!
-7. What Lightning Flash!
God, Christ, Gurus
Prayer at Noon
The Hound of Heaven
-12. Cloud-Colored Christ
Divine Mother's Song to the Devotee
-15. In the Temple of Silence
Song of India
-18. Shanti Mondire
-20. Prayer at Eventide and chanting Aum
-22. I Will Be Thine Always
-24. Main Tera Hamesha
-26. Do Not Dry the Ocean of My Love
-28. Prayer at Night and chanting of Aum

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Customer Reviews:

a treasure for devotees.......2002-09-09

The more I listen to this remarkable recording, the more it touches my heart and lifts my spirit.
In his heavily accented but crisp and charming English, Paramahansaji reads these prayers with much power and energy, making this CD a soul stirring experience. After most of the prayers, there is a chant, and though his singing voice isn't "pretty" or "perfect", it's a commanding sound that after 3 or 4 hearings will light a flame in your spirit.
To quote the liner notes: "Those who join in the thought and feeling with Paramahansa Yogananda will find that listening to these chants and prayers imbues the heart with deep spiritual peace and an awareness of the Divine Presence".

These chants were recorded during impromptu gatherings, and have been re-mastered from the original 78 r.p.m. records. They did an excellent job, as the sound is clear and quite good.
Paramahansa Yogananda plays the harmonium (a small, hand-operated reed organ) on these chants, and other accompaniment includes the mridanga (a long drum of clay and wood), and kartal (a pair of flat hand cymbals).

The booklet insert is exceptional, and includes complete text of the prayers and chants, and also a translation of the Bengali (of which there is a transliteration) when applicable, and there is one chant in Hindi, with translation.
There is one instrumental, recorded in 1947, which is an arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song of India", and has pianist/conductor Antonia Brico playing the harmonium, and Paramahansa Yogananda on the tablas (a set of two drums). Dr. Brico, subject of the documentary "Antonia, Portrait of the Woman", was a musical pioneer of extraordinary achievement, so it's a treat to hear her as part of this collection.
Total playing time for this CD is 69:17, and as this is an unusual recording, I recommend hearing it several times before fully evaluating it.

This is a wonderful CD for followers of the Self-Realization Fellowship teachings, and as Paramahansaji said, "Chanting with ever-increasing devotion brings God-communion and ecstatic joy, and through these healing of body, mind and soul".

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