Maharishi Gandharva Veda music

We all experience the influence of music on our emotions. Some music creates very fine feelings in our hearts, it relaxes, other music makes us feel more excited, it makes us dance.

There are endless music styles for us to listen to. Jazz, classical, pop, rock, country, folk are a few. Everyone of them has a certain influence on us and we choose the style, or artist that gives us the mood we like most.

Music is a great blessing. It soothes us when we don't feel too good, or helps us unwind after a busy day.

Transformations in nature

There is one music style which as well as creating a certain atmosphere, also balances the different transformations that take place in nature during the day.

There are different laws of nature functioning throughout the day and night, such as the Sun rising at dawn and setting in the evening.

We as human beings are directly under the influence of all these laws of nature and we have to adjust to all the transformations that occur.

As these influences are very subtle, we might not notice them, but according to the knowledge of Gandharva Veda, they are taking place and are directly influencing our physiology and our mind.

Balancing influence of Ragas, the rhythms of nature

Ayurveda, the science of perfect health, emphasizes that we need to maintain balance in our physiology in order to stay healthy and fit.

One way to do this, is by listening to melodies, called Ragas, which have the quality of restoring balance. This not only balances the entire physiology, but Gandharva Veda tells us that these Ragas also have a harmonizing influence on the whole environment.

That's why Gandharva Veda is unique. It's a music style which helps us to live life in balance. It's music which not only gives us a pleasant mood or feeling, but it is composed of certain rhythms of nature which, if played or listened to at the right time of day or night, has a harmonizing influence on us and on our environment.

Listening to the Ragas at the right time of day

Maharishi Gandharva Veda has been established to have these melodies played at the right time of day, because each part of the day has its specific qualities most lively.

CD's are recorded for everyone to enjoy the harmonizing influence which the Gandharva Veda melodies have on mind and body. Maharishi Gandharva Veda concerts are given all over the world to create world peace and heaven on earth.

It is advised to listen to Gandharva Veda music with the eyes closed, sitting in an easy chair, or lying on bed. It's not meant as background music.

Maharishi Gandharva Veda music can be played on different instruments, such as sitar, flute, sarangi and also vocal. You can therefore make your choice on the basis of your own preferences.

The Veda tells us that Gandharva Veda is the music played by the Gandharvans (heavenly musicians) in heaven.

I personally find that the effects, the fine emotions and positive influence on the physiology and also the experience of bliss and wholeness, are unique to Gandharva Veda music.

Therefore I can fully recommend to regularly listen to the melodies of Gandharva Veda. It may open a new world of music enjoyment for you. Maharishi Gandharva Veda CD's have been produced for every time of the day. Click on the links to related websites below to read more about Maharishi Gandharva Veda and to listen to some music samples.

"Gandharva music is the eternal melody of Nature which is ever-lively in Transcendental Consciousness. From there it reverberates and constructs different levels of creation. Gandharva Veda is the basis of all order and harmony in Nature, therefore is has that most harmonizing, most integrating influence." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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Links to related websites:

Institute of Maharishi Gandharva Veda music at Maharishi University of Management, Iowa - informative pages with audio/video samples.

Maharishi Gandharva Veda audio samples - by Debu Chaudhuri on Sitar and Amar Nath on Flute.

MTC - Worldwide distributor of Maharishi Gandharva Veda CD's