Prema Kirtan
Exploring the magical, timeless chant that leads to sacred love.
Kirtan soars beyond ordinary music. Chant bathes us in sacred mantras of transformation and healing that enrich and enlighten us. Rooted in the bhakti yoga tradition and practiced for millennia, kirtan is the easiest meditation and a substantial form of spiritual nourishment. It is the joining of a mantra and the soul in song to establish a heat-connection with the Divine.
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About the Book
Sacred sound is a substantial form of spiritual nourishment. Many cultures are rich with spiritual and religious music, but kirtan features ancient mantras – potent sound formulas of transformation and healing – that enrich and enlighten us in ways that other music or self-help methods such as therapy, affirmations, or mindfulness.
We’re far more powerful than we may have been led to believe; we’re immeasurably more than what meets the eye. In choosing a mantra to dedicate ourselves to, we choose from a vast array of possibilities for the soul – more enchanting and enthralling than any possibility we’ve encountered in any wonderful dream or fictional world.
Due to its efficacy, mantra kirtan has been practiced for thousands of years. That so many are now embracing kirtan in the West shows its universal appeal and its power to nourish us by fulfilling a deep spiritual hunger. People describe how mantra meditation allows them to tap into a sacred space within themselves and connect with the Divine. In simple terms, kirtan is the joining of a mantra and the soul in song to establish a heart-connection with the Supreme.
Mantra kirtan is also practiced as a personal daily meditation, known as japa. Besides the spiritual benefits, kirtan and japa offer all the psycho-physical benefits of other types of meditation but are much easier to perform than silent meditation or mindfulness.
Prema Kirtan takes us into the world of a specific type of kirtan and japa known as prema-kirtan, or the kirtan that produces prema, divine love. In Prema Kirtan we learn about the history, purpose, practice, and spiritual possibilities that prema-kirtan offers, as well as the opportunities realized by other types of kirtan.
Though group and private kirtan meditation is deceptively simple and enjoyable, this powerful yoga practice is deeply rooted in a sophisticated philosophy, which Prema Kirtan concisely covers in three thought-provoking chapters on the nature of Reality.
Bhakti, the yoga of divine love, allows a flowering of the heart from a kirtan practice. Prema Kirtan distills the essence of this yoga practice, which lifts us out of the mundane and takes us to the very nature of our existence. We’re shown the origins of this ancient practice and how it came to the West, as well as how the mantra heals psychologically and spiritually, freeing one from self-imposed limitations.
Pranada has studied and practiced bhakti for nearly fifty years. Her first two books, Wise-Love and Bhakti Shakti won multiple awards. She takes us on a journey into the pragmatic and profound spiritual progression of one who takes up a mantra-meditation practice, and she shows how kirtan ends the soul’s dark night of material existence. That happens when the rising sun of prema, divine love, reveals the security and fullness of the soul’s eternal, illuminated, unchanging nature and its relationship with its Supreme Source.
You Will Learn
- gives practitioners first-hand experience of the self, the true nature of the world, and the characteristics of transcendental reality, and reveals our relationship with our root source, the Supreme Being
- descends from a higher plane of existence
- is the central practice of bhakti yoga, the devotional school that is the heart and soul of yoga
- bathes us in sacred mantras removes our karmic bond of action and reaction, and roots out the egoic false self
- purifies the heart, tunes the soul, calms and clarifies the mind, releases the voice, and shows a genuine way of being in the world
- is the expression of the soul proper
- of the maha-mantra cultures prema, or divine love, the confidential, special liberation hidden in the ancient texts
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Acclaim and Accolades for Prema Kirtan
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Pranada Comtois
Pranada Comtois is a devoted pilgrim and award-winning author of Wise-Love: Bhakti and the Search for the Soul of Consciousness and Bhakti Shakti: Goddess of Divine Love.
Her writing sheds light on Bhakti’s ancient wisdom school, known as the heart and soul of yoga.
At sixteen she met her teacher A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami and began her lifelong study and practice of bhakti. The wisdom of her teaching grows from living for twenty years as a contemplative in bhakti ashrams, and another twenty years raising a family and running two multi-million dollar businesses.
Her writing has appeared in numerous online and print publications. She is a featured speaker in the film Women of Bhakti.
