Peaceful Shivoham Chanting

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Beautiful Shivoham chants by revered Anandmurti Gurumaa from a devotional album 'Shiva's Ecstasy'. In the form, Lord Shiva is the epitome of perfection, beauty, grandeur and wisdom. He is master, creator. In his formlessness, He is the cosmic, macrocosmic existence. A perfect lover, teacher, innovator, redeemer, brimming with compassion for all sentient beings and perpetually in samadhi. He is the first master who gave methodological formulations for the inner world. His instructions in 'Shiva Bhairava Tantra' lists 112 methods of meditation. No wonder, he is worshipped the most by all the ascetics. 'Shiva's Ecstasy' is a beautiful meditation CD which brings in beautiful Sanskrit chants which are soothing to the ear and the heart. The mellow music in the background gives a perfect reason to experience Lord Shiva's love in our heart. 'Invocation' (Namami shamishaan stotra) is dedicated to the worship of Saguna Shiva. His beauty, grace, and peaceful demeanor is celebrated; His compassion for all sentient beings is glorified. He is seated on a deer skin i.e. mind, snakes are around his neck, and poison in his throat. He is ever blissful and ever compassionate. Ganges i.e. awakened kundalini is seated in his matted hair. Adi Shankaracharaya's immortal composition of 'Aatmashatakam' celebrates Nirguna Shiva, the eternal cosmic existence. Layers of ignorance are peeled off one by one: 'I am not the body, senses, mind, and intellect. I am the truth, I am.' Shiva is the ultimate truth which dawns in the higher stages of meditation. Truth is beyond the senses and the mind; thus we cannot use these mediums to understand what Truth is. Virtue, evil, birth and dualities exist in the mind and True self is beyond the mind. Attachment, greed, lust, ego are bondages of the mind, not of the self, and the self is the purest of the pure. Self is like the sky, vast, beyond horizon, without boundaries. Knowing of this fundamental reality redeems us from all the pain, anguish, and anxieties. Realization of this knowledge brings us to the stage where everything seems null and void - what remains is pure emptiness. This world seems to be a dance of illusionary images - just like a dream where everything seems real but the moment the sleep is broken, all is gone. 'Shivoham' is the starting point, not the end - from here, one begins to know that you and I are both illusions and changeable but truth is neither me nor you. 'Om Namah Shivay' mesmerizes - just sway with it and experience the joy. 'Shivoham' is a melodious sortie of bliss. Beautiful sounds of chorus, flute and Gurumaa's voice weaves the ultimate magic. 'Shiva's Ecstasy' is a hypnotic combination of meditation music and master Anandmurti Gurumaa's soul stirring voice. Listen to it with mindfulness and enjoy the indescribable experience. 'Shiva's Ecstasy' is dedicated to all Shiva devotees, sadhus and ascetics living in this world in which Lord Shiva can be seen living immortally.