Quotes About Chanting

It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

Om mane padme om

U re u re na-nam Gi re gi re na-nam Mu re mu re na-nam

A Siddha must be differentiated from a Rishi. A Rishi obtains his power from the Devas by chanting the appropriate hymns and making the appropriate offerings during yagna. Siddhas bypass the Devas and go directly to God to get their powers.

Nous vîmes sortir du monastère une nonne. Elle portait sur l'épaule gauche une planche étroite et longue, la toaca, et dans sa main droite un maillet. Pour appeler au culte, elle fit le tour de l'église, en frappant avec le maillet sur la planche, tantôt au centre, tantôt vers les extrémités, de manière à produire des notes plus graves ou plus claires, et à moduler un véritable chant.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

the murmuring priests

yoga: the Hindu practice of bowing to pagan deities through poses called 'asanas', a practice made popular in the West by New Agers. Even if a Christian were to use Scripture or hymns, each of these postures is still designed to worship pagan deities. Many yoga studios are filled with pagan statues and the use of blasphemous Sanskrit chanting.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Chanting is the main thing in my life.

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

the song consisted of an invocation to Neptune, chanted by a single leader and repeated in chorus, with a rhythm so sweet and well balanced that it imitated the regular movement of the sailors bending to their oars and the oars beating the water.

Repetitive chanting of the Gayatri Mantra is also a powerful way to bring your intentions to fruition.

I find it ever so archaic, chanting, but I can see why people do it. I love seeing people getting all their frustrations out for the week.

ALL HAIL THE NEW ORDER!' chanted the crowd. It was a truly grotesque sight.

Chanting and invoking are worlds apart. Chanting is done with the mouth; invoking is done with the mind. And because invoking comes from the mind, it is called a door to awareness. Chanting is centered in the mouth and appears as sound. If you cling to appearances while searching for meaning, you won't find a thing.

For the rest of our lives, all we can hear are our names chanted over and over, until we are deaf to everything else.

Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.

Milan-Roma games were especially tense. Roma fans loved to sing, to the tune of Il sole mio – 'I have only one dream/Milan in flames'. Milan's fans replied with irony: 'Milan in flames? And where will you work?

Thank you, McCain! Thank you, Obama! We need freedom." I suspect the NTC had played a role in organizing the cheerleaders, but I enjoyed the experience just the same, noting to my guide that I hadn't had many occasions to hear my name and the President's chanted by the same people. "It's usually just one or the other of us," I explained. "We don't always have

There are certain sayings that ring in your head long enough to become a chant!

Let me chant in sacred numbers, as I strike each sounding string, Chant in sweet, melodious anthems, glorious deeds of Christ our King; He, my Muse, shall be thy story; with His praise my lyre shall ring.