Sky Of The Heart By Girish

Sky Of The Heart By GirishSky of the Heart features original songs, stellar musicians and your favorite voices in Kirtan! rnrnWith more English lyrics than his previous releases, and just as much musical diversity, the theme of this new album is that whatever spiritual, cultural or musical tradition we follow, we all come from the same source, we're all connected, we're all one. Girish has played tablas with such artists as Krishna Das, Wah!, Snatam Kaur, Rasa, Thomas Barquee,

Sky of the Heart features original songs, stellar musicians and your favorite voices in Kirtan!rnrnWith more English lyrics than his previous releases, and just as much musical diversity, the theme of this new album is that whatever spiritual, cultural or musical tradition we follow, we all come from the same source, we're all connected, we're all one. Girish has played tablas with such artists as Krishna Das, Wah!, Snatam Kaur, Rasa, Thomas Barquee, and Donna De Lory and is a long-time devotee of the path of yoga and chanting. I first discovered the yoga of chanting at Sadhana Ashram, a Hindu monastery in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Meditation and chanting were the beginning and the end of every day of my five years there, as they still are today. I have no idea how chanting does what it does but, then, experience needs no explanation. We all recognize that feeling, that familiarity, that knowing. I'll never forget the first time I shared a Kirtan with Krishna Das, and the way his voice carried with it the palpable presence of Divine love. Shankaracharya Swami, my teacher in Tennessee, said it this way: 'Chanting begins as a practice, a way to open the heart and focus on the Divine. When the fruit of this practice comes, chanting is experienced as the bliss of the One reveling within itself.' For the past several years I've been blessed to play alongside many of the chant wallah's sharing the yoga of devotion with the world. Traveling with them among the radiant communities of Yogis and Yoginis like bees in a garden, I came to see how amazing the role we've been give truly is. Flying from one beautiful flower to the next, sipping nectar, leaving a little pollen - the humble chant artist holds citizenship in a worldwide community with increasingly permeable borders.