The Mystery of Sound

By Saraswati Raman

Saraswati Ramans interest and dedication to Sahaja Yoga and its meditation led her to explore a course in medicine, leading to an MD in alternative medicine from the Indian Board for Alternative Sciences, Kolkata, and started off on her journey in music too by learning, just to discover the treatments of various diseases through music and Sahaja Yoga meditation. A lady full of positive vibes and approach toward every aspect of life; ever smiling, her journey to explore the culture of our country and its tradition has taken this form of a beautiful compilation of this literature. We are proud to have her as one of the gems of Sahaja yogis that are blooming on this earth. Jai Shri Mataji. With lots of love.

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During the course of her growth in Sahaja Yoga, she met her music teacher Dr. Arun Apte, who greatly influenced her in music, which was also instrumental in bringing a profound change in her health. She continues to practice singing out of love for music, and its impact on the energy centers. I am sure readers of this book will be greatly benefited.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Oct 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496992260

Saraswati Raman

SARASWATI RAMAN, a Sahaja yogi, lives in Thane, Maharashtra, India. Gifted with a spiritual bent mind, an uncanny intuition, and an extreme sensitivity, Saraswati is able to bring her abilities to pen down a few remarkable books on the evolution of the human being through energizing of the subtle energy centers in the human being. Having worked in a bank for over thirty years, her interactions with innumerable human beings at the workplace provided her the opportunity to observe human behavior and their frailties closely, making her deeply reflective and considerate to constructively study the human side of spirituality. Saraswati Raman took up Sahaja yoga eighteen years ago, and her life changed dramatically. She was cured of schizophrenia, her career got uplifted, and she completed her MBA in finance and an MD in alternative medicine. There was an all-round integration of the personality, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual.

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Nada Brahma Resonates From Dr Arun Apte

Chapter 1 Sound Of Cosmos

Chapter 2 The Subtle Energy System The Kundalini Energy System

Chapter 3 Chakras And Bija Mantras

Chapter 4 Energizing Chakras

Chapter 5 Sound Of Silence

Chapter 6 Music Induced Meditation

Chapter 7 Healing Power Of Sound

Chapter 8 Ragas Of Indian Music

Chapter 9 Spiritual Sadhana – Nada Yoga

Chapter 10 Spiritual Harmony

Chapter 11 The Power Of Music

Chapter 12 Music As Therapy

Chapter 13 Bibliography

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Late Dr. Arun Shridhar Apte was a registered medical practitioner in music therapy by INDIAN BOARD OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES registered by the government of west Bengal with the open INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPLIMENTARY MEDICINES. He was internationally an expert in the field of music therapy through spiritual yoga method. A specialist in singing Hindustani classical ragas and semi classical music like Thumari, bhajans, Stage music(natya sangeet) Marathi bhavgeet. He had composed and set to music many devotional bandishis and developed new and innovative techniques of "Medicinal Indian Vocal Music Therapy". Born to musically talented parents, it was his mother Late Mrs.Mangala Apte(a disciple of Pt.D.V.Paluskar of Gwalior Gharana) who gave him the classical vocal training. Later on he got a chance to learn from Pt.Jitendra Abhisheki for 10years.

FOREWORD

It is with a profound and deep sense of understanding of the Divine Grace’s blessing of this work that I am penning these words as a foreword to this book written by Saraswati Raman. I remember my husband, Dr.Arun Apte’s first introduction of Saraswati to me when he showed me the e-mail she had written, describing beautifully the sublime effect his music had on her and how it had cured her of the unique problem she had of waking up at one- thirty every night for sixteen years. It was so touching that my eyes swelled with tears. She was one of his students at the music class that he conducted at Parag Raje’s house in Thane, when he used to drive all the way from Pune every week-end and on some occasions, I too, had the privilege of being present with all those devoted students. I was so surprised that Music Therapy could do such magic on people that in spite of my initial apprehensions, I began to be convinced of its efficacy.

Although he had a background in music, having come from a family of musicians; where his mother was a student of Pandit Paluskar and he himself having been trained under Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki, his obsession for doing research in music and the relations of music and the

Kundalini and Chakras began after a performance in 1993 as a guest artist at Cabella on the occasion of puja of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. We had been invited to perform before Her Holiness, and the vibrations during the performance were tremendous. After the program, many Sahaja Yogis who were listening to him came back to him and said that their Kundalinis were dancing as he sang. That performance was the turning point when Arun just plunged into the world of music and never looked back after that.

His approach to application of music centered around observing and contemplation on the effect of Swaras on each chakra. We used to have several Sahaja Yogis coming to our house and experimenting and discussing on the effects of notes on the Chakras. After Realization from Her Holiness Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, his depth in music intensified and his creative energies manifested in the form of music bandishes (compositions), all of which started coming to him naturally and automatically. Even though he was involved with all of us externally, like driving his scooter or watching movies on the TV with us, his attention was on the movement of Kundalini within him and the effect of external sounds on his Kundalini energy as She meandered within his subtle system.

My musical journey attained some stature under his nurturing care and tutelage. Although I was already a radio artist in Goa; after marriage, it was under Arun’s training in riaz of the sur, pronunciations, taranas,etc. that it grew. He was my husband, guru and best friend all rolled in one. My whole world was centered on him, but his journey in this life with me was shortened and perhaps that was Divinely ordained.

In the last couple of years, somehow, he seemed to have fast tracked his work on this Earth, and he did several CDs consisting of Bija mantras, Bija Aksharas, Om therapy, chanting of shlokas on the deities of each chakra, and Music Therapy.

Saraswati has captured in this book some of the subtle discoveries that he had made in the use of swara phrases composed