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Sri Ananda Rasa
Sacred Dance Mantra
Music album with (1) the Sri Ananda Rasa arati, a devotional invocation to the peaceful, inner happiness that resides in everyone, ananda. The arati connects you to the tangible reality of yourself and is listened to prior to the dance. And (2) the Sri Ananda Rasa mantra is an ode to ananda, which opens you to your longing for and celebration of the joy of spiritual bliss.
Mantras
1. Sri Ananda Rasa arati (19.29 minutes)
2. Sri Ananda Rasa mantra (90.58 minutes)
Sri Ananda Rasa
The Sri Ananda Rasa is a sacred dance (the Sanskrit word rasa means dance) created to further enrich the Sri Ananda Mantra. This mantra and dance are dedicated to the value of Ananda, a value that has many meanings, but is usually translated as grace, being blessed, or experiencing inner joy and love. You can attach many meanings to the concept of Ananda, as long as they somehow articulate that they bring you closer to the experience of blessed, inner happiness. It has to do with becoming aware of your inner wealth. Ananda encompasses an inner wealth that belongs to everyone's humanity. An inner richness that everyone carries with them because they exist and are part of creation and the richness from which that creation springs.
The sensitive sounds of the music and the devotional movements of the dance allow you to honor and discover the most beautiful thing you know as a human being, Ananda, so that you can truly celebrate the happiness it carries. Ananda is the seat of your inner happiness and is connected to the love of your heart and the devotion to life that comes from it. The Sri Ananda Mantra is an ode to these blissful blessings of the spiritual heart of life, as expressed in this statement: “Life is the natural flow of longing to allow the light within you to nourish and heal you, to truly answer you, to bless you, to make you joyful, to free you from the darkness, and to be together, to live together, to be happy together, both with the resulting openness and with your true radiant nature.”
The Sri Ananda Mantra is not intended to satisfy your need for happiness from the outside, but it offers you a way to indicate from within that you long to freely experience the precious and joyful wholeness of who you are. By repeating the mantra, you are expressing your longing and willingness to open yourself to the value of Ananda, beyond your self-needs and your tendency to want happiness as a form of success and achievement. With this mantra, you are first reverently saluting that depth within you, and then allowing light on and into it, giving that depth more experiential existence. The free translation of the Sri Ananda mantra is, “Oh my dear soul, source of essential bliss, when I consciously feel you and allow your brilliance, it fills me with inner peace all around.” When you are receptive to your soul, you feel much richer. Life and you, in short everything, is more beautiful because you are filled with the inner richness of peace, harmony and love. You are not so afraid anymore, but you want to let this infinite richness of love, peace and joy affect all your cells. Inner wealth means that you feel filled with the values of the deepest treasure or sweetest nectar from within you: Ananda.
Track 1: Sri Ananda arati
Loving your Inner Being
Mantra Sri ananda Free translation “Oh my deepest being, ocean of ananda, source of happiness, to you I open myself.” About the Sri Ananda arati
The entire musical piece that supports the dance lasts about an hour and a half and begins with a feeling of stillness and devotion to the space of Ananda within you during the arati part. The sounds of the arati invite you to soften and release any darkness or density in your consciousness. Open your consciousness and allow its light to penetrate your depths, so that you may be sensitively immersed in the Ananda-meaning of the mantra in a meditative, thawing, and awakening way. The arati, as a kind of meditation before the movements of the dance, guides you in allowing whatever is constricted in your experience to soften and open. Arati is the part of the music that is based on the essence of the mantra and the dance, which in traditional Hindu ceremonies is always accompanied by fire and light. By paying attention to the light of a candle or the sun shining into your room at that moment, you are symbolically indicating that you long for the light and open your consciousness and experience to its healing effects. The arati, the opening, the first part of the music, is very simple and stilling, and is therefore well suited to support this internalizing process of awareness. In the Sri Ananda arati, the meditative chanting is accompanied only by the sound of a flowing stream from the Belgian Eifel and some echoing tones of a Spanish guitar. The sound of the stream is repeated throughout the piece and represents the basic, natural and flowing longing of every human being to be whole, joyous, full and light again. The arati ends with the sounds of the flowing stream and the Sri Ananda mantra begins with these stream sounds.
Track 2: Sri Ananda Rasa mantra
The blissful blessings of the heart
Mantra Sri ananda jay ananda jay jay shanti aum Free translation “Oh precious essential joy, receiving you fills me with inner peace.” About the Sri Ananda Rasa mantra
This mantra expresses the joy of spiritual bliss (soul happiness) from the depth of your source, via the flowing life force of your being, into the oneness of surrender. The Sanskrit word sri is a respectful greeting, indicating that the name or concept that follows it shines, carries dignity, and encompasses an honorable quality. The Sanskrit word Ananda means the essence of happiness, the happiness of being, or the happiness of the essential. The word jaya means, among other things, salvation, victory, or blessing. It affirms your respect for what comes after and indicates even more clearly 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 or will be said is meant to be comprehensive and spiritual in nature. It refers to the underlying wholeness in which this mantra is embedded. As you listen, read the experiential story below, which Anandajay wrote as accompaniment to the Sri Ananda mantra to allow its value and depth to resonate more deeply. The value and potency of this mantra