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Meditation Puja and Prayer Songs
Sacred Sounds part 5
1 meditation puja and 4 meditative chants that help you become more familiar with meditation. By opening yourself to the vibrations, intentions and sensitive impressions that these mantras can instil in you, you will naturally enter the still and spiritual atmosphere of meditation.
Mantras
1. Dhyana puja
2. AUM – meditation prayer song
3. Shanti – meditation prayer song
4. Sarvamangalam – meditation prayer song
5. Ananda – meditation prayer song
About the Meditation Prayer & Prayer Songs
This album consists of a meditation puja and four meditation songs to help you become more familiar with meditation. The Dhyana puja and the AUM meditation prayer song are based on the four internalization phases of the Light of Being-Meditation, in which you descend through four phases to the most essential part of yourself in order to come back into harmony with it and feel whole again. In addition, the meditation prayers are songs that take you through all kinds of moods, atmospheres, feelings, intonations, and pitches through a free, prayerful use of sound and voice to bring you home to your essence.
The core of meditation is internalization, in whatever form that may take. Meditation ensures that you do not overlook the most important thing in life, which is that it is about you, that you are the most special thing in your own life, and that humanity is the most special thing in this creation. Meditation brings you into contact with deep life values and special facts that make life mysterious and give it spiritual depth.
Meditation, like all spiritual development, begins with becoming aware of yourself again, so that you can truly be in touch with yourself, live with yourself, and feel free again to deal with whatever life brings your way. The Dhyana puja and the prayer songs support this. The Dhyana puja is a devotional prayer with musical accompaniment and gestures, consisting of four mantra words based on the essence of the four steps of internalization, of meditation. By slowly and rhythmically performing the gestures to music that matches the meanings of the four mantra words, you are brought into a deep, flowing, meditative peace. And the four prayer songs are pieces of music that use the sounds of a particular mantra to try to touch the depths of your soul. They are prayers sung slowly and experienced through sound. Various tanpuras, shruti's or drones (continuous tones) and singing bowls are used for background and musical embedding. By opening yourself to the vibrations, intentions and emotional touches that these prayer songs bring, you will naturally enter into the tranquil and spiritual atmosphere of meditation.
Track 1: Dhyana puja
Honoring the four lights of your being
Translated with DeepL (AI) Mantra Shanti Aum bhur bhuvah svah, tat savitur varenyam, bhargo devasya dhimahi, dhiyo yonah prachodayat Atmajyoti Aum bhur bhuvah svah, tat savitur varenyam, bhargo devasya dhimahi, dhiyo yonah prachodayat Murtidhara Aum bhur bhuvah svah, tat savitur varenyam, bhargo devasya dhimahi, dhiyo yonah prachodayat Ekabhava Aum bhur bhuvah svah, tat savitur varenyam, bhargo devasya dhimahi, dhiyo yonah prachodayat
The Dhyana puja is a prayer of thanksgiving that you can use as preparation for your meditation, but you can also get in touch with the four essential aspects of the Light of Being-Meditation in a simple and concise way through this puja. The four aspects of meditation, namely freedom, love, trust and relatedness, are repeated as core values with symbolic gestures throughout the puja, as a prayer of thanks for your existence. This puja, using the words shanti, atmajyoti, murtidhara, ekabhava, invites you to tangibly connect with the precious essence of your existence. The puja lets you feel how to connect with your existential energy on the four elemental levels of your existence, and how rich it feels when these are allowed to take place together in freedom..
Track 2: AUM meditation prayer song
For oneness
Mantra Shanti-A - U (OE) - M Free translation “Oh dear friend, loving essence, by allowing you into the seat of my humanity, I experience your blessings and feel enveloped in being together the greater whole.”
In this musical interpretation of the Light of Being-Meditation, you are invited to allow yourself to be immersed in the four experiential spheres of the Light of Being-Meditation, both through the sounds of the music and through Anandajay's voice. The sounds then take you through the experiential worlds of, in sequence: (Phase 1) the peace of your consciousness through the word shanti, (Phase 2) the touchability of your heart through the sound A, (Phase 3) being carried in your humanity through the sound O (OE, U) and (Phase 4) feeling safe in the wholeness of creation through the sound M.
Track 3: Shanti meditation prayer song
For peace
Mantra Shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti Shanti, shanti, shanti Shanti mangalam shanti, shanti mangalam shanti, shanti mangalam shanti Aum shanti shanti shanti aum Free translation “Oh dear friend, loving essence, by allowing you into the seat of my humanity, I experience your blessings and feel carried in being with the greater whole.”
The Sanskrit word shanti means inner peace, which alternates with the Sanskrit word mangalam, which means prosperity, salvation, or happiness. The mantra ends with the aum shanti aum chant, indicating the all-encompassing peace of everything.
Track 4: Sarvamangalam meditation prayer song
For wholeness
Mantra Aum shanti shanti shanti aum Bhumi mangalam, shanti mangalam Udaka mangalam, shanti mangalam Agni mangalam, shanti mangalam Vayu mangalam, shanti mangalam Gagana mangalam, shanti mangalam Surya mangalam, shanti mangalam Chandra mangalam, shanti mangalam Jagat mangalam, shanti mangalam Jiva Mangalam, shanti mangalam Deha mangalam, shanti mangalam Mano mangalam, shanti mangalam Atma mangalam, shanti mangalam Prema mangalam, shanti mangalam Karuna mangalam, shanti mangalam Satya mangalam, shanti mangalam Jyoti mangalam, shanti mangalam Citta mangalam, shanti mangalam Mukti mangalam, shanti mangalam Sat mangalam, shanti mangalam Ananda mangalam, shanti mangalam Moksha mangalam, shanti mangalam Aum mangalam, shanti mangalam Omkaar mangalam, shanti mangalam Shanti Mangalam, shanti mangalam Sarva mangalam (3x) Shanti mangalam Aum shanti shanti shanti aum (3x)
In this prayer song, carried by a background of tanpura sounds, a light drone and singing bowls, the special shanti mantra is first sung, which is traditionally used to announce that what comes next is of sacred depth. Then the most important elements of creation are sung and honored in this prayer song. By consciously reflecting on the value of all these elements of creation, and therefore also of yourself, you honor creation and allow positive energy to flow towards it. You then give positive energy to the creation that you enjoy so much, that is so dear to you and to which you feel so intensely connected, in a grateful and respectful way. Because you feel that you are related to creation and you realize that pure peace is the source of both you and everything, in this prayer song you give space to wishing pure peace to everything that lives as intensely as possible. Let this prayer song give you the opportunity to give pure peace (shanti) and contribute to life, to your life and to the development of humanity on earth. Below you will find a list of the values that are celebrated and to which the word mangalam, which means prosperity, salvation or happiness, is always added. The mantra shantimangalam is also regularly sung to indicate that the happiness that is wished for should promote peace. In between the values, you constantly hear the sound of a singing bowl, which is meant to release all intellectual involvement during this experience, so that you can be emotionally connected to the influence of the voice-sounds and its embedding, completely free of the mind.
Track 5: Ananda meditation prayer song
For love
Mantra Sri ananda, sri ananda Sri, sri, sri, ananda Sri ananda, jay ananda, jay jay jay shanti aum, shanti shanti aum Shanti, shanti, shanti, shanti Free translation “Oh dear essential joy, allowing you fills me with inner peace in every way.”
This mantra allows you to become more deeply receptive to the blessings of life as a whole. The Sanskrit word sri indicates that the value it proclaims is worthy of respect and carries with it a dignified and radiant quality. The Sanskrit word Ananda means the essence of happiness, the happiness of being, or the happiness of the soul. The word jay means, among other things, salvation, victory, or blessing. It reinforces your respect for what is to come and makes it even clearer that this is truly an ode. The word shanti means inner peace or a harmonized state of being and indicates a profound experience of abundance, non-violence, and love. The word aum indicates that what has been said or is about to be said is comprehensive and spiritual in nature. It calls attention to the underlying wholeness in which the mantra is embedded.