Kundalini Yoga with Ragas

Friends, classical music based raga is an excellent example of ancient Indian tradition. and Kundalini Yoga. Both make the body and mind stress free. Controls blood pressure. Helps in concentrating. Actually, the basis of Ragas is Kundalini Yoga. Like “Wake up, wake up Mohan Pyare, Bhor Bhai, let your darshan come to Jogi Jangam, Jati, Niranjan” etc. Here dawn or Bhor means the growth of abundant sattoguna within the mind of Kundalini Yogi. Mohan Here is the Kundalini meditation picture. Mohan’s awakening here is Kundalini awakening. Ragas help in holding the breath for a longer period during yoga because in a raga, the same tune is prolonged by holding the breath for a longer period. In common songs, the lyrics and tune keep changing frequently due to which the attention becomes difficult to concentrate. People say that melody brings sleep. Actually, ragas calm the mind. In times of mental fatigue and restlessness, by listening to a raga, the breathing becomes deep and slow due to which the mind feels completely healthy. When the practice of yoga helps in singing a raga, then why can’t listening and singing a raga help in yoga, because in both the practice of breathing i.e. Pranayama contributes. Listening to the raga according to the time of the day freshens the mood. One such app that I like is Ragya. I am not doing any promotion. In this, ragas keep playing continuously according to the time of the day and innumerable ragas come in change. Earlier I used Saregama app but due to some bug in it, it forgot my 3 months subscription, which could not be recovered even from customer care. During yoga, listening to a raga does not reveal the thoughts suppressed in the mind because the power of the brain remains engaged in listening to the raga. Perhaps those suppressed thoughts keep getting destroyed, but without erupting outside, that is, silently. Perhaps what we consider expression of thoughts to be the process of destruction of thoughts, may actually be a way of keeping thoughts alive. How can a habit be destroyed by repeating it again and again? A habit will be destroyed only if it is not repeated. Similarly, how will the above thought be destroyed by repeatedly expressing it? It will be destroyed only when the power of that thought is used in some other good thought or feeling. Perhaps this is what happens with ragas. The power generated by Yoga does not get absorbed in the dormant thoughts but gets absorbed in the raga music, due to which the thoughts and feelings associated with spiritual sanskars get strengthened, and the useless and suppressed thoughts of the previous life get destroyed. This is the middle way of manifesting the dormant thoughts in a light form and giving their power to the new Kundalini thought, so that the power of those thoughts can also be extracted and they cannot become material or material like after being expressed violently. If dormant thoughts do not emerge from the mind at all, their power will not be extracted. Similarly, even if they emerge too much, there will be no power left to draw from them. The basic theme of ragas is spiritual or yogic. Along with Ragas are in Surtaal means they are in rhythm. Therefore they are good for the mind. Among these, natural and simple instruments with beautiful sound like drum, dholki, sitar, flute etc. sound very dear to the ears. Which are better than the so-called modern deafening musical instruments, especially for yogis and blissful lifestyle. I find ragas tantric. Just as through Kundalini Tantra the so-called trivial worldliness is transformed into sublime spiritual practice, similarly through Raga too. The love relationship between a lover and his or her beloved usually seems to be physical, but when it is connected to a raga, it becomes sophisticated and spiritual. Similarly, take any worldly subject, Raga passion purifies it. Therefore, if we call Raaga musical laundering, it would not be an exaggeration. If we observe its basic principle in depth, only Kundalini is visible. Ragas improve breathing and body movements, because both are interconnected. Due to this, the Kundalini Shakti becomes active, due to which the Kundalini picture starts residing continuously in the mind. Due to this, the Kundalini picture remains connected with all thoughts, feelings and actions. Due to this, even after being immersed in a world full of duality, a feeling of perfect non-duality remains in the mind. This non-dual feeling purifies everyone. One special thing about ragas is that even if their words or lyrics are not understood, they still provide yoga benefits through their way of speaking and music. Anyway, there are not many words in them. Even on a single sentence or word, an entire raga of one hour is formed. For example, “Saavre se man laga, mori mae”, is a forty-five minute Khayal-based melodious raga on two or four lyrics like this.  It seems that ragas are emotion based rather than word based.