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The words of this chant are those of an ancient Sanskrit temple chant. Cosmic Chants prints the Sanskrit words with an English adaptation sung to the same melo…
Listen to SRF Recordings Audio Recordings When My Dream’s Dream is Done, from the album In the Temple of My Heart Spotify · Apple Music · Tidal
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2025 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (3-hour) Audio Recordings From This Sleep, Lord (Bro. Kamalananda), from the album Th…
This is an old Bengali chant, included in Cosmic Chants in translation. Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2021 Convocation YSS Monks' Kirtan at Smriti…
Listen to SRF Recordings Audio Recordings Come, Listen to My Soul Song (Bro. Kamalananda), from the album Thy Heart of Hearts Spotify · Apple Music · Tidal
Listen to SRF Recordings Audio Recordings Divine Gypsy (Bro. Devananda), from the album I Will Sing Thy Name Spotify · Apple Music · Tidal Divine Gypsy (instru…
Listen to SRF Recordings Audio Recordings In the Valley of Sorrow (Bro. Devananda), from the album I Will Sing Thy Name Spotify · Apple Music · Tidal In the Va…
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube My Krishna Is Blue (YSS monastics) 2020 Convocation YSS Monks' Kirtan at Smriti Mandir 2021 Convocation Nuns' Kirtan…
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube I Will Be Thine Always (YSS monastics) 2023 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (90-minute) Audio Recordings I Will Be Thine A…
The words of this chant are a poem by Paramahansaji, which Ella G. Richdale set to music. Listen to SRF Recordings Audio Recordings Om Song, from the album In…
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube Search Him Out in Secret (YSS monastics) 2020 Convocation Nuns' Kirtan (3-hour) Audio Recordings Search Him Out in S…
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2020 Convocation Nuns' Kirtan (3-hour) 2021 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (3-hour) Audio Recordings I Give You My Soul C…
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2020 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (90-minute) 2021 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (3-hour) 2021 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (9…
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2023 Convocation Nuns' Kirtan (3-hour) 2023 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (3-hour) Audio Recordings Receive Me on Thy La…
Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2021 Convocation Nuns' Kirtan (3-hour) 2025 Convocation Nuns' Kirtan (90-minute) Audio Recordings When Thy Song Flow…
This is an old Bengali chant, included in Cosmic Chants in translation. Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2021 Convocation Monks' Kirtan (90-minute) 2…
This Bengali song was often chanted by Paramahansaji’s guru, Sri Yukteswarji. Listen to SRF Recordings Audio Recordings Desire, My Great Enemy, from the album…
The words of this chant were written by Rabindranath Tagore. The key to this chant is establishing a steady pulse in the 6/8 time feel. It works well at a medi…
This Guide is about the feel of the meters you will meet in Cosmic Chants, and how percussion can count and support them. It is not a pattern chart. For basic…
He Who Knows is a very short chant, a single line in mixed meter. Cosmic Chants marks it Free and gives no metronome marking, but it is natural to sing it in t…
I Am the Sky has a special place among the Cosmic Chants. Cosmic Chants (p. 21) tells us: “Paramahansa Yogananda and Rajarsi Janakananda, a great American disc…
This chant is relatively simple in melody but challenging in several ways. “If thou” is a pickup and “wilt” is beat one; almost every stanza has pickups, so yo…
This is a very well-known and commonly played chant in SRF contexts. It is best played in a relaxed tempo, but tempo variations can be used to build energy and…
This is an old Bengali chant, included in Cosmic Chants in translation. Listen to SRF Recordings Videos on YouTube 2022 Convocation Nuns' Kirtan (3-hour) Audio…
This chant is a song of the sixteenth-century saint Sri Chaitanya. This is a relatively simple chant that rotates between three lyric sections, each done twice…
This Guide gives the key aptitudes needed for percussionists (cymbals, bells and tablas) accompanying kirtan in SRF contexts. For charts of general cymbal and…
I Am Om has three sections. It’s important to memorize the order of the Om lines: “Om, Om, I am Om,” “Omnipresence, I am Om,” “All pervading, I am Om,” and “Al…
A strong repertoire is the foundation of meaningful group kirtan. Rather than chasing variety, the goal is depth — a modest set of chants that your group knows…
A good way to learn a new chant is to work in a simple order: listen first, then the words, then the starting note and key, then the Song Form, and only then s…
This Guide gives the key aptitudes needing for the Kirtan Leader, who plays harmonium and sings the chant, in order to lead kirtan in SRF contexts. Role of the…
As written in Cosmic Chants , this chant is only one section—“I will sing Thy Name, I will drink Thy Name, And get all drunk, oh, with Thy Name.” In SRF contex…
A list of goals and non-goals for the SRF Encinitas Temple Kirtan Commitee Primary Goals Facilitate group chanting of Cosmic Chants and SRF Bhajans to awaken d…
This is an old Bengali chant, included in Cosmic Chants in translation. This is one of the most advanced chants in the book. The chorus is basically a chant in…
The harmonium is a gentle, welcoming instrument, and you can begin with no musical background at all. This guide walks you through the first steps: sitting at…
Today My Mind Has Dived has a melody and structure similar to Door of My Heart and At Thy Feet, so it can feel familiar quickly. Take care, though, to learn wh…
This guide is a reading list of publicly available Self-Realization Fellowship publications that discuss devotional chanting and kirtan. It does not reprint th…
