"Music is so much more than entertainment. It doesn't merely reflect a state of consciousness: It also generates it." - Swami Kriyananda Experience the transformative power of music to change and create consciousness through one of Swami Kriyananda's songs every week. Discover the uplifting power of melody, rhythm, and poetry, as we take each song to heart and absorb its deeper message. Join me in this series to learn how to use music not just as light entertainment but as a tool to awaken right-attitude, and live a happier and more fulfilled life. Song: Song of the Nightingale

Rhythm is a powerful mode of communication in music and language. Have you ever noticed the rhythm of laughter, or how certain emphasis in timing change the meaning of a sentence? In this episode we dance with Swami Kriyananda through the buoyant song There's Joy in the Heavens and learn how joy, like a peppy rhythm, is ever at our fingertips.

We all desire to love and be loved, not just impersonally, in a cosmic sense, but also personally. One of the deepest longings of the human heart is to find a partner, to share a romance - is this yearning a hindrance on the spiritual path, or can we learn how to transform human love into divine aspiration? Through this song, and the wonderful poetry from Shakespeare, we get a glimpse into how to uplift our heart's love to divine perfection.

In this episode we see how each one of us tries to find happiness and fulfilment through lower tendencies and desires, as expressed through the lower triad of chakras, until we discover deeper fulfilment in freedom of heart and inner freedom, as expressed by the higher chakras. Surprisingly, Swami's song, If You're Seeking Freedom, outlines this progression precisely. Join in to see how!

Home is a deep psychological archetype, much more than a building with four walls and a ceiling. What does home mean, and how does this song teach us to discover the true vibration of our inner home? What is truly important to a yogi in life, outer success, or inner bliss? With this song, Home is a Green Hill, Swami shows us through melody and poetic metaphor how to tune into and cultivate the deep contentment of a heart that is whole.

Join me in exploring one of my all-time favorite songs of Swami's, The Hill That Was Tara. This song provides the answer to one of mankind's deepest worries; is anything we do of any lasting value? Is there any meaning to our efforts and tribulations, or do all things end in darkness and dust? Using the poetic backdrop of ancient Ireland and the deeds of men's past, Swamiji gives us one of the greatest messages of hope, "Every effort we spend gives more strength in the end, till our gladness in life's ever new."

Continuing in our Irish themes from last week, join me in another classic of Swami's music, Emerald Isle. This song, more than describing the wonders of the natural world, and of the fair land of Ireland, is an invitation to see life with the eyes of divine vision. Everything in this world is a symbol directing us closer to God, but what would it actually be like to live in that realization constantly? What joy, what elation, what comfort would arise from that view of life and the world around us? Perhaps this song gives us a glimpse of that high state of consciousness, where we see everything as God, in God, with God.

In this mystical song of Inner God-Communion, Swami shows us what awaits all of us as we progress deeper in our meditation and God contact. This soul-thrilling song gives us a taste of that direct experience which is the true bedrock of all faith. By singing this song, meditating on it, and trying to live more in it's vibration we can speed our way towards that great realization of God's true presence.