Music
Om
Namah Shivaya
by Dharma
Mittra
You know when you are
meditating, repeating your mantra and you vary the rhythm
and tone of the chant mentally to keep it fresh and sometimes
you lose it completely and then, gently bring yourself
back? That is what this CD is like. It is very cool. On
the first 30 plus minute track yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra
intones OM metronimically in the background while his wife
Ismrittee Devi Om weaves in and out with lovely interesting
renditions of Om Namah Shivaya and Sita Ram, Jay Ram. This
harmony is interwoven with gentle guitar, piano, cowbells
and synthesizer wafting in and out and then later Dharma
is chanting Om Nimashivaya deeply and then back to Om and
then Ismriittee returns with lilting vocals and the Om
is in the background and so on. As background music it
is like your sound system is in deep meditation while you
are doing the dishes or working on your thesis, or if you
like, you can take a break from whatever else you may be
doing and be transported to a meditative state while listening
closely to this deeply soothing music.
The
second 45 minute plus track is a bit darker with Dharma intoning the classic, "Hum
Sa, So Hum, So Hum, Hum Sa, So Hum, Hum Sa, Hum Sa, So Hum" with a reverberating
syntesizer accompaniment. For those of us who have done lots of Dharma's Psychic
Development it is hard to keep our fingers from curling to the chant, but soon
Ismrittee comes in with a melodic ode to the journey inward and adoration of
the Lord. All this is accompanied by some very heady synthesizer, and tamborine-like
percussion and shifts and bends like the mind in deep meditation.
This unique musical offering is balm to those of
us who have studied with Dharma and want to feel connected to him from afar and
will also be enjoyed by others on the path who want to experience what he and
Ismrittee Devi have to offer. |
