This is a song we sang during assembly at school. I loved it then, but love it even more now…
This is a prayer I sing to Ma very often…
This is all I would like to be in this life… a channel of her peace… 
Susan Boyle - Make me a channel of your peace :
http://youtu.be/jOvQLMfppN8
Lyrics:
Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love,
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
And where there’s doubt true faith in you.
Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there’s sadness, ever joy.
O Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love with all my soul!
Make me a channel of your peace:
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
This is another song we sang during assembly at school. It is one of my favorite Hindi prayer song :
The lyrics to the song meant a lot then, but mean so much more now.
http://youtu.be/Bqx8NlEQu94
Translation of the Hindi lyrics:
(God) Give us the strength, to win over our minds
Before we try to gain victory over others, let us gain victory over ourselves (mind).
Let us free our hearts of discrimination.
If anyone has wronged us, let us be able to forgive them.
Keep us away from lies and always be in touch with truth.
Before we try to gain victory over others, let us gain victory over ourselves (mind).
If we find ourselves in a difficult situation, please grant us this favor,
Let us not forget what is sacred and give us the strength to stay with the sacred,
Help us stay confident of the self and not give in to fear.
Before we try to gain victory over others, let us gain victory over ourselves (mind).
such a good way to educate kids at school!..putting the seed of viveka (discrimination) in them…lovely
It’s really good to think that this music went into one of your paintings.
I think that a song got me on this journey, it was only later that I began to see a link.
Lateralus by Tool
Artist: Tool
Lateralus Lyrics
Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
reaching out to me, lets me see.
As below so above and beyond I imagine,
drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing,
separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.
Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
reaching out to me, lets me see.
There is so much more and it beckons me to look though to these,
infinite possibilities.
As below so above and beyond I imagine,
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.
Over thinking, over analyzing,
separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment, urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.
I embrace my desire to…
I embrace my desire to…
feel the rhythm,
to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow,
to feel inspired,
to fathom the power,
to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral,
to swing on the spiral,
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.
With my feet upon the ground,
I lose myself between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I’m reaching up and reaching out.
I’m reaching for the random or whatever will bewilder me,
whatever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind,
we may just go where no one’s been.
We’ll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one’s been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
------ Performed by Tool
That was the beauty of growing up in India, Maheswari. I never realized how much we we were taught to work first on ourselves before we worked on others. And mind you, I studied in a Catholic school. But it was OK to sing Indian prayer songs right after we said " Our father in heaven".
Gatito, my next painting is a vision I had, and the music just made the paints flow… Thank you so much for it.
Karl, very impressive song/lyrics. Here is a link to it for anyone who would like to hear it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Hail Tool 
Thanks Karl! I’ve missed listening to tool myself… I am a big fan of theirs…
For those of a mathematical disposition. The song was written around the golden ratio, or Fibbonacci sequence.
It’s interesting how music crosses continents.
yes music is universal…it touches the heart of humans regardless of languages
Thank you and namaskar to all you wonderful people for coming up with such a nice post …
Shanti, this song knocks to my sleepy heart also… great to know that you guys also like it. Is it only I think or they really indicated that Akbar was an awakened person and had an opening during this song as shown in the video? well I readily believed it as Akbar was one of the greatest ruler with an open heart and views which were ahead by centuries if not timeless.
one more in the similar line by A R Rahman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYnZj-EvL4
The song goes on saying that:
‘whoever has come to your door to bow to you … all got drunk from love and kept waving … they came with great thirst in their heart and got treated with no less than a sea … they kept soaking in the shower of light…’
‘I used to get an aroma, I used to get totally lost in it and kept trying to find the source … when I came to your door, I saw the truth and realized that it is coimng from within me, which you have ignited.’
Another favorite of mine, which I like to play when I do asana - it is from the movie matrix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOtoIBrBAYE
Let us all soak in the rain of light …
Wow, thanks for sharing karl, golden ratio is really the mathemetical tool to feel the divinity around us.
about golden ratio from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
A song to contemplate(old and traditional )… It makes me realize the fraility of life as well as the blessing of having a human body…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLjRoRy4uEw&list=FLFsFXtxPvq77WZdcLc-0BAg&feature=mh_lolz
by Henry Lyte
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.
I need Thy presence every passing hour;
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.
Loved both the songs, Swan. I let the Matrix song sink in like rain… powerful.
Thanks.
chit-ananda51, that was some beautiful singing and the lyrics are so beautiful. Thanks.
This is my favorite song when I am caught up in mind… reminds me to take a step back…
It has taught me a lot along the way… http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4768
http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4768#48756
ATMASTAKAM - Chant of Shiva: http://youtu.be/keg0IhG_9vQ
Here is a version from Deva Premal: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5baw6_deva-premal-shivoham-shivoham_music
beautiful Shanti thank you
I like Bruno Mars Songs and also Adele
Especially these two
“I would catch a Grenade for you” by Bruno Mars
“If you ever leave me baby…” by Bruno Mars
“I set fire to the rain” by Adele
Though these songs are not spiritual the passion in them feels like the passion we all have for spiritual life and awakening.
Thanks Near.
Love those songs…
The other day one of my friends on FB posted… “There’s a fire starting in my heart”… and it stopped me for a second… “There’s a fire burning in my heart” for Ma, for a while now … and just the night before I had a dream of my heart being on fire, but this fire did not burn or destroy…
Yeah Adele’s songs are very passionate. She had a painful break-up, spent several months shutting herself in a room drinking 4 bottles of wine everyday and then came back and produced this album which was an instant chart topper that made her famous.
The below lyrics are from the song “I set fire to the rain” where she talks about her pain. This is my song as well to enlightenment/awakening especially when I feel down that I am not making progress
I know the “awakening” will always win and there is nothing that I can do except for setting fire to the rain and let it burn me
I let it fall, my heart,
And as it fell you rose to claim it
It was dark and I was over
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me
My hands, they’re strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet
But there’s a side to you
That I never knew, never knew.
All the things you’d say
They were never true, never true,
And the games you play
You would always win, always win.
[Chorus:]
But I set fire to the rain,
Watched it pour as I touched your face,
Well, it burned while I cried
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name!
Here is the youtube video for those who havent watched it yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsBObg-1BQ
i love this one by Adele…Rolling in the deep…her voice is so beautiful and strong in this track in particular
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRUkdQa6Is&feature=related
On Maha Shivaratri I would like to share a song for Lord Shiva:
Om Namah Shivaya : http://youtu.be/0_Ty7ot9sqA