A guide to harnessing the vibration that created the universe for
healing and spiritual awakening
- Shares profound lessons from Swami Nada Brahmananda, a master of the
yoga of sound and vibration
- Centers on three life-enhancing themes: controlling the mind, diet
and practices conducive to healing and perfect health, and how music can
be used to transform consciousness and enrich our spiritual life
- Also paints a vivid portrait of New York City in the 1970s and its
underground arts and music scene
Not long after obtaining his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia
University in 1971, Michael Grosso had an extraordinary experience in
Greenwich Village, New York, that led him to realize he needed to
balance his overly intellectual life with music. He met Swami Nada
Brahmananda, a former court musician for the King of Mysore, famous
throughout India for being a master of Taan music and sound yoga as well
as for his supernatural control of his body. Grosso began studying with
Swami Nada and found his life profoundly changed.
Sharing the lessons of Swami Nada Brahmananda as well as painting a
vivid portrait of New York City in the 1970s--and its vibrant and
chaotic underground arts and music scene--Grosso explores Swami Nada's
Indian yoga of sacred sound in depth. He reveals how the tradition
centers on the sound or vibration that created the universe, its
personal cultivation, and its power to heal, enlighten, and offer
insight about how to live in the Kali Yuga, the Age of Conflict. Grosso
also examines the siddhis, or extraordinary powers, that can arise from
this work, detailing the otherworldly abilities of his master. The
lessons that Grosso shares center on three life-enhancing themes:
controlling the mind, which provides the very essence of a happy life;
diet and practices conducive to healing and perfect health--Swami Nada
himself never knew a day of sickness in all of his 97 years; and how
music in all its forms can be used to transform consciousness and enrich
our spiritual life.
Revealing Swami Nada Brahmananda as the very embodiment of a Celestial
Songman, Grosso shows how, by practicing the yoga of sound, we can
embody Swami Nada's greatest lesson of all: that we can all learn to
make music from the discordant notes of our lives and sing our way out
of the Kali Yuga.
