Today I want to share a new song with you! It's available on Spotify and YouTube.
This is a collaboration with a tremendously talented musician, composer and producer who goes by the name SONGS OF EDEN.
I am so tickled to also share that we met on Instagram of all places! When you know, you know.
The best part of singing on this song for me is that it reminds me of Cirque du Soleil... and I have had a lifelong dream of singing for Cirque du Soleil... but no interest in touring with a circus. Best of both worlds?!
The song is a track #4 on his album "The Casablanca Sessions." Check out this cool teaser video he made...
I have some footage for you from Saturday night at the Orpheum Theatre with Snatam Kaur. One of the best parts was right before this was filmed... she invited me on stage for a song we had not rehearsed: Guru Ram Das Raakho Saranaa-ee.
This song played on repeat throughout my entire birth with my second son (read about my freebirth) here. It's kind of amazing how that happened!
Alright, here is Snatam and I singing her Longtime Sun together.
You know those projects you've been working on for over 7 years? They keep taking the back seat to more pressing projects...
Yes, those ones.
I have just completed something that I have been working on for over 7 years!
It's my first book of spiritual poetry, called CHARM THE SHADOWS. I'm an author!
It is a collection of my favorite poems that I've written since 2011. They chronicle my spiritual journey, motherhood, overcoming fears, breaking through old belief patterns.
I'm excited to share a little more footage from my Sacred Chant Concert at Bhakti Fest's 10th Anniversary.
This one is of a mantra that many of you will know very well: "Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo."
The translation I give in the video is the best one I've given so far.
Ong = I focus my consciousness
Namo = I acknowledge, I bow
Guru Dev = the divine teacher within
So all together, it translates to something like:
I now focus all of my awareness on the divine teacher within. I acknowledge this transformative energy that already exists within me. I bow to that POTENTIAL.
Within each living being (including every living cell) there is an innate intelligence. So often we ask other people to substitute that intelligence for us. This is called "seeking advice."
Quantum Physics tells us that our Universe is a hologram. We are all holograms. This means that the ENTIRE body of intelligence that is our Universe exists in exactly the same form in every single living thing on this planet.
The degree to which we are "enlightened" is the degree to which we put ourselves in a place of allowing that intelligence to flow through us... as us.
As you chant this mantra, make sure the ONG sound resounds through your forehead and nasal cavities. It will activate the frontal lobe, which is associated with learning, and our personality. Vibrate that area with awareness and you will make yourself available to all the intelligence that is already within you.
JOYfully,
Sirgun Kaur
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I am back from a week in the California desert, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Bhakti Fest. This is one of the pieces I played for my sacred chant concert on Friday, Sept. 14.
I was joined by Greg Barnett on bass, Clayton Campbell on percussion, Chad Wilkins on guitar, Candace Park on viola, Radharani on vocals, and Dharma Fears on vocals.
I was not expecting to get footage from this concert, so seeing this in my inbox upon my return was a very nice surprise indeed!
The mantras in this song are:
So paatisah(u) sahaa paatisahib Naanak rahan rajaaee
Ik ong kaar sat naam siree waaheguroo
Waaheguroo, waaheguroo, waaheguroo, waahe jio
They are not generally used together. They came to me in a dream when I was writing the music for -8. I loved the way they sounded together, especially the overlapping "waheguru" part.
And thank you to Jake J. Thomas and Masood Ali Khan for your footage!
You might be confused by my chosen title because you probably don't hear anyone going around saying: "hey there, what's right with you?"
So often people ask each other "what's wrong?" because as humans we have confused focusing on each other's problem with caring.
It's well-meaning, but it's not a productive use of your time, or someone else's for that matter, to recount all the things that went wrong in your day.
Do you believe energy follows attention? Do you believe you create your own reality by what you focus on?
And for the completely skeptical: if you had just one moment left to your life, would you want to use it to complain?
(I'm going to hope the answer is NO as I flow onto the next sentence...)
Then why would you want to draw your attention, let alone someone else's, to your problems?
There are literally millions of things at any given moment that are going amazingly RIGHT that you are completely ignoring. And it's affecting your ability to see clearly. It's affecting your ability to create the reality you actually want for yourself.
:: HOW TO ANSWER THE RIGHT QUESTION ::
Here are 3 categories of things that are certainly going RIGHT for you. While I cannot see through your eyes and notice all the things you could notice through them, here are some ideas to get you started at re-framing your reality.
Appreciation appreciates (i.e adds value) what you are experiencing. Appreciate something and you add importance to it. Add importance to it, and you'll talk about it more. Talk about it more and you'll have more of it to talk about.
1. NOTICE YOUR SURROUNDINGS: Have you ever considered how truly blessed we are that there is air to breathe, that the sun comes up every single morning, that the Earth continues to rotate on its axis? Too basic? How about the human ingenuity that has built structures that stand up straight (houses), house people vertically (apartment buildings), carry passengers miles up in the air (planes) to the furthest reaches of the planet... The things to notice will vary greatly depending on where you are, but they are there for you to notice nonetheless.
2. NOTICE YOUR BODY: I don't have a good enough knowledge of human anatomy to list all the magical components of your body! Even if you are laying in a coma right not (which you're not because you're reading this), your body is amazing. Your eyes, ears, eyelashes, mouth, lips, tongue, hair, legs, skin keeping it all together, all the sensors with which you see, hear, taste, touch, smell... all might not apply to you, but many will. The intricate system of internal organs that are functioning while you are simply sitting down is mind-blowing. And it all happens without you having to do anything. In fact, that's probably why you rarely think about how great your body is until you have something wrong with it, right? Don't wait until you're sick to appreciate your health. And if you are sick, notice the parts of your body that are still going RIGHT.
3. NOTICE KINDNESS: There are so many people out there doing nice things for others. Maybe they are letting you go ahead of them in line at the grocery store, maybe the bank teller smiled at you, maybe you get to witness a child laughing at the playground. This is all for your enjoyment. Don't dismiss the positive vibrations of the incidental people in your life. See what happens when you tell the story of the free coffee the barista gave you because they accidentally made an extra, or the toddler who drew a picture for you in the sand. It will change your life.
OK, THAT'S ALL for now. I do appreciate crystals. This set was given to me by my friend Nina at Sage Moon. I do appreciate gifts. And crystals. :-)
:: THE "RIGHT" MANTRA ::
The mantra for appreciation is "Waheguru." It has WOW (wahe) built into it. Chant Waheguru and become amazed by your life.
