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Playing Paramahansa Yogananda’sCosmic ChantsA visual guide for those not trained in reading Western musical notationOffered with loving and grateful hearts at the lotus feet of our Guruby devotees of the Boston Center of Self Realization Fellowship with aprayer that all devotees may now be able to play his Cosmic Chants regardlessof their musical training.Summer 2011 V7.0
List of Chants by TitleIntroduction. 4At Thy Feet. 6Blue Lotus Feet . 7Brahmanandam . 8Cloud-Colored Christ . 9Come, Listen to My Soul Song .10Dawn Chant.11Deliver Us From Delusion .12Desire, My Great Enemy .13Divine Gypsy .15Divine Mother’s Song to the Devotee .16Do Not Dry the Ocean of My Love.17Door of My Heart .18Ever New Joy .19From This Sleep, Lord .19Hay Hari Sundara .21He Who Knows .23Hymn to Brahma .24I Am the Bubble, Make Me the Sea .25I Am Om .26I Am the Sky.28I Give You My Soul Call .29In Samadhi .30In the Land Beyond My Dreams .31In the Temple of Silence .32In The Valley of Sorrow .33Invocation to the Gurus .34I will be Thine Always .35I Will Sing Thy Name.36Jai Guru .37Learn Thou Self–Control .40
Light the Lamp of Thy Love . 41Listen, Listen, Listen. 42My Krishna Is Blue . 43No Birth, No Death . 44O God Beautiful . 45Om Chant. 46Om Kali . 47Om Song . 48Opal Flame . 51O Thou Blue Sky . 54O Thou King of the Infinite . 55Polestar of My Life . 56Receive Me on Thy Lap, O Mother . 57Rose Chant. 58Search Him Out in Secret. 59Shanti Mondire . 60Spirit and Nature . 61Swami Ram Tirtha’s Song . 62They Have Heard Thy Name . 65Thou Art My Life . 68Thousands of Suns. 70Today My Mind Has Dived . 71Wake, Yet Wake, O My Saint . 72What Lightning Flash. 74When My Dream’s Dream Is Done . 76When Thy Song Flows Through Me . 79Where Is There Love? . 82Who Is In My Temple? . 83Why, O Mind, Wanderest Thou? . 84Will That Day Come to Me, Mother? . 85Wink Has Not Touched My Eyes . 87
Int r odu c t i o nThis booklet has only one purpose: to enable devotees not fluent in Western musical notation to play Paramahansa Yogananda’s Cosmic Chantswith the correct notes and rhythm. There is a deep need for such an aid. There are a large number of devotees all over the world who havedifficulty in playing the Cosmic Chants because they cannot read the notes. Some t
The door opens to amazing vistas, suggested by the following selected quotations taken from Paramahansa Yogananda’s own words in his Prelude to the Cosmic Chants: Each of the Cosmic Chants in this book has been spiritualized; that is, at various gatherings each song has been sung aloud and mentally until the chanters found actual response from God. It is hoped that every reader will sing .
