Value of Vedic recitation
3. An ideal example to experience: Ganesh recitation
4. Research: Vedic Recitation and the Physiology
5. Maharishi explains transcending and Vedic Recitation
1. Understanding the source
One of the many great gifts of the Vedic tradition is that specific favourable influences and qualities can be enlivened in our lives through recitations by Vedic Pandits; for example, for good health, intelligence, happiness, or protection. UNESCO has declared Vedic recitation as an intangible heritage of humanity. Below there is an audio recording—the profoundly settling example of Ganesh recitation—by Maharishi Vedic Pandits for you to enjoy.
2. Extensive training in vedic performance
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is widely recognized as the world’s foremost Vedic scholar and scientist of consciousness of the modern era. In villages and regional training centers all around India, Maharishi created a network of instruction for students wishing to become Maharishi Vedic Pandits. The students follow a systematic and detailed training program designed by Maharishi to ensure that every Pandit receives a high and standardized level of training. From the age of 10 to 20—and beyond, through a full PhD programme—they follow a special course of study that includes learning the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme as well as Yogic Flying, the 40 aspects of Ved and the Vedic literature, and gaining proficiency in performing Yagyas.
3. Ganesh Recitation
Ganesh is the quality of intelligence that represents and facilitates the removal of obstacles, loss of fear, and the transformation of complexity to simplicity and bliss. Below you can listen to a deeply balancing and restoring 15-minute recitation which is known as Shri Ganesh Atharvashirsha. Click on the picture or the heading to listen.
4. Vedic Recitation and the Physiology
Neuroscientist and researcher Dr. Fred Travis, Director of the Centre for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition, MIU, Fairfield, Iowa, USA has been performing research on the effects on brain functioning when listening to Vedic recitation. His published research paper (download the paper here) indicates that when practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique listen to Vedic recitation it can culture the dual experience of deep inner silence along with specific localized awareness characterized by lively silence. This objective research confirms the subjective experience of thousands of Meditators.
Below is an experience from a person who attended a course where there was the incredible opportunity to listen to live recitations by the Maharishi Vedic Pandits. You can read more experiences here.
enlivens the deepest level of consciousness with bliss and fulfillment while simultaneously
purifying and strengthening the physiology.” BB – United States
5. Maharishi explains transcending and Vedic Recitation
In this short audio recording Maharishi describes that transcending and listening to Vedic recitation ‘… are inseparable …’.
The difference between practicing TM and listening to Vedic recitation. (Audio 4:42 min)
“Vedic sounds, they are very, very beautiful. Very beautiful.
Beautiful means Total Natural Law reverberates in those sounds. That’s why our whole programme is to create and maintain the life of these Vedic Pandits in a nice manner, so that what they recite – the Vedic recitations – they have that genuineness of the silence reverberating. Atma reverberating in Itself. That is the basis of evolution in action. Basis of evolution is silence – silence in action, silence in action, silence in action. That is our, we could say, main point of our theme of redressing the stress-ridden world consciousness through the Vedic recitations. Vedic recitations would mean redressing the topsy-turvy, disturbed value of the fundamental field of reverberations.”
Maharishi – Press Conference, January 15, 2003
6. Traditional Vedic Recitation
In this short video (click on the image to watch) Dr Susie Swan describes the effectiveness and the remarkably high quality of the traditional Vedic Recitations by the Maharishi Vedic Pandits. Our Pandits have been systematically trained under Maharishi’s guidance in the revival of the ancient profession of peace keeping through Yoga and Yagya.
Click here or on the image to watch the video.
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7. Maharishi Veda app offers
- A large library of high-quality, auspicious Vedic recitations by specially trained Maharishi Vedic Pandits that bring balance, peace, harmony and joy in life. You can now select recitations by their traditionally associated Benefits, Duration, or Vedic aspect (Devata). When you select a recitation you have the option to view it in a big player that features large beautiful pictures of the Maharishi Vedic Pandits.
- A wide-ranging selection of Indian classical music (Gandharva Veda). Maharishi Gandharva Veda utilizes sound, melody, and rhythm to restore balance and harmony in the mind, body, and the environment. These beautiful melodies have been recorded by some of the finest Gandharva Veda musicians in India and can automatically play for the appropriate time of day.
8. Listen to recitations inside eCards
All eCards are filled with beautiful pictures of the Maharishi Vedic Pandits enhanced with audios, videos and/or slideshows of the Maharishi Vedic Pandit recitations. We hope you will enjoy these FREE enhanced eCards and will share them with your friends. Click here
