Kirtan- Devotional Chanting
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Kirtan is call-and-response chanting that invokes in the participant a sublime and uplifting sense of peacefulness and resplendence. Chanting in this way, in community and in harmony, strengthens the individual resolve and opens the heart of the practitioner, inviting them to step more profoundly into the current that informs their own truth.
“Kirtan is like a magnet, inviting and begging grace to enter our hearts and our lives. It is a most precious thing, something to be cherished and practiced with total gratitude, and those who learn how to enter into it will feel God’s grace and presence as the closest of the close, the dearest of the dear—our true beloved.” –Jai Uttal
“Music (Chanting, Bhajans, Kirtan) is the most direct, universal and immediate mode of lifting us into a higher awareness.” –Swami Sivananda
“Mantras are like bombs, they explode from you and destroy negative energy.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
