Receiving divine grace with heartfelt kirtana

Nov 12, 2009, 12.00am IST
ANANDMURTI GURUMAA.


Kirtana is a valuable spiritual aid to bring the seeker closer to the Supreme Consciousness. It is the singing of devotional songs, chanting creatively with heartfelt sincerity and purpose.


Kirtana is helpful in all spheres of life; it helps us to overcome physical troubles and tribulations as well.

During kirtana many assemble together, united in purpose, and so all their collective physical energies function in unison. Their collective psychic energies flow in the same channel, inspired by Parama Purusa. At the place of kirtana, not only will there be a huge concentration of physical energies, but also a powerful concentration of psychic energy, which will remove all the collective, accumulated miseries of the material world. Kirtana is initiation to the Divine to reveal the Supreme Consciousness within.


By the inspiration they receive from Parama Purusa, practitioners acquire great power. No worldly obstacles can stand before their tremendous spiritual force. Thus kirtana is helpful not only for spiritual sadhana but also for overcoming worldly difficulties.


Physical afflictions are caused partly by nature, and partly by our own thoughts and actions. Whatever might be the physical miseries – natural or man-made – if people collectively chant kirtana, calamities become easier to deal with. In case of natural calamities like flood, famine, drought and epidemic, or man-made calamities, miseries and tortures, relief is at hand through heartfelt kirtana. Singing together and seeking the grace of the Parama Purusa cannot fail to bring some relief, even enable a certain movement upward towards higher consciousness.

In addition to helping redress individual challenges, kirtana makes it less difficult to remove collective psychic afflictions as well – those that already exist, and those which have not yet arrived but about which we have premonitions. If we are aware of an impending negative situation, and kirtana is done in advance, those impending troubles seem to disappear. They are dispelled not merely because of the collective mental force of so many people, but also due to the impact of so many minds moving with tremendous speed under the inspiration of Parama Purusa.

At the place of kirtana, not only are the people who are themselves doing kirtana getting benefited, but also those who are not participating – and even those among the non-participants who are sceptics and non-believers, who don’t like the idea at all, the ripple effect of kirtana touches their lives as well, bringing positivity and peace, engendering common benefit.

One of the names of Parama Purusa is Ashutosh. Ashu means “quickly, easily”. Therefore, Ashutosh means the one who can be satisfied quickly and easily. That is, the one who is easy to please. If you do kirtana sincerely and wholeheartedly even for five or 10 minutes, Parama Purusa becomes pleased. Parama Purusa does not make any distinction between educated and uneducated, between black and white – all are His loving children.

Do kirtana without any consideration of time, place and person and those who do kirtana should always remember that the Parama Purusa is Grace and benevolence are made accessible.

Today is the 19th Mahaprayan Divas – departure from the worldly abode – of Shri Shri Anandamurti.