MICHAEL DUNN: Adoration - Chants for Meditation

Michael Dunn

Adoration - Chants for Meditation

© 2003 Michael Dunn (822005030024)

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"This CD is WONDERFUL. I feel peaceful and so moved." - Mariel Hemingway. Sweetly intense and ideal for meditation - sacred chants and poetry in an angelic tenor, with traditional Indian instrumentation.

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Listeners share their response to "Adoration" -

This music is pure devotion
Reviewer: Linda

"If you are into devotional kirtan, this will shower your heart with bliss. Fantastic."

Beyond Words, Indescribable Awe!
Reviewer: Christine

"This is by far the most beautiful CD I have ever heard. I listen to a lot of sacred mantra music and I've struck gold with this one. It oozes with Paramahansaji's heartfelt devotion to the Divine, and Michael Dunn's voice just rolls upon your ears like pure and sacred water. I take this CD with me everywhere I go!"

Simply Beautiful (High Vibrations)
Reviewer: Ellyn Gray

"This CD is filled with the love of God. Chant with it, or just listen and be lifted to a higher vibration. Begin and end your day with the peaceful vibrations of this album. Only one who loves God could bring such peace as you will feel with this entire album."

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More about Michael Dunn...

Michael Dunn brings to the ancient art of kirtan a devotional intensity and simplicity that many have found profoundly moving. In India they say that the name of God is God. "Various are Thy Names, O Lord. In each and every name, Thy power resides," wrote the great bhakti Sri Chaitanya. Chanting from the heart opens the door to communion with the Divine, and can create a wave of joy that carries one through the day.

For nearly a decade, Michael Dunn has led kirtan meditations at the world-famed Lake Shrine meditation center founded by the great world-teacher Paramahansa Yogananda in Pacific Palisades, California. After an award-winning fifteen year career in theatre and music, Michael heeded an inner need for a spiritual sabbatical and began work as a vegetarian cook at the Lake Shrine ashram, immersing himself in meditation and chanting.

Michael's beginnings as a kirtan artist can be traced to an earthquake. The 1994 Los Angeles temblor left the Lake Shrine short of a kirtan leader (who chose to move to a more stable tectonic plate) and the head monk asked Michael to learn the harmonium. Years of leading chants and meditations followed, culminating in a pilgrimage to India for the Maha Kumbha Mela in 2001. There he learned chants from the monks of Yogoda Satsanga Society at Dakshineswar, and at a Himalayan retreat in Dwarahat, near the cave of Mahavatar Babaji. This pilgrimage also planted the seeds of what would become the CD, "Adoration - Chants for Meditation."

A bumpy bus ride from New Delhi to Rhaniket in the Himalayan foothills was made more bearable for some thirty pilgrims by the music of Michael's newly purchased harmonium, and by the joyous chanting of the Divine Name. Fellow pilgrim (and audio engineer) Tom Murphy was inspired to offer his services and his long-established L.A. studio (Track Record) to record an album of chants. The interval between inspiration and manifestation can be lengthy on our planet, but the tree has finally borne fruit! Michael Dunn is now featured at chanting events throughout Southern California. It is our hope that these chants will find a place in your heart.

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  • Adoration
    author: LaVonna

    this is my second order. (4) total. I am overwhelmed to tears each time I listen. What a beautiful gift to everyone to benefit from. blessing

  • Adoration
    author: LaVonna

    The CD is amazing ! It takes You away to meditate with beautiful chantsdrifting into your heart. Blessings

  • Adoration is Amazing
    author: Manoo

    The chants sung in this album take U into the state of meditation immediately. The singers have felt deep love for Yogananda while singing the chants. God Bless them all

  • Great for inspiration and meditation.
    author: Ed

    A mix of often heard and lesser known chants from Paramahansa Yogananda's life-work, makes this an inspirational collection to cherish.

  • excelent
    author: Musa Osvaldo

    It very good for meditation and relax, and with the lyrics in the paper of cd, makes it an important instrument of spiritual experience.

  • I love these CD.
    author: Mario Moraes

    I love these CD. It is like hearing Lord Krishna and Sri Yogananda live.

  • Michael is blessed with a divine gift and his wonderful voice is an inspiration.
    author: Graeme

    Michael is blessed with a divine gift and his wonderful voice is testimony to this fact. This CD is truly inspirational and highly recommended to all devotees.

  • A Masterpiece.
    author: Lynne Atherton-Dat

    A Masterpiece! Each number is a jewel on its own - leading into peace.

  • Very soothing and giving happiness...
    author: Dipti Kulkarni-Deskmukh

    These chants are very very soothing giving peace and happiness..I like them a lot!!

  • Very devotional
    author: Steven Torontali

    Very devotional and soothing, I have shared it with or mediation group and everyone enjoyed, The love for Master was felt and chants were beautiful. In Master's Service Cleveland Meditation Circle of S.R.F. Coordinator, Steven J. Torontali

  • TRUE AND INSPIRED. THE REAL THING.
    author: Nick

    This is now my all time favorite music. Divine.

  • Like meditating with open eyes
    author: Margareta Gannon

    Master must be dancing with delight to hear His chants so beautifully sung. It was the only CD I could play all day when I worked in Encinitas Imports because it creates such a soothing, peaceful vibration. It's like meditating with your eyes open. May Michael be greatly blessed for sharing Master's healing love with us. OM

  • Wonderful composition of Yogananda's chants
    author: Adoration - Chants for Meditation

    Michael Dunn's CD is a blessing, not only for Self-Reailzation Fellowship followers but also for other people interested in meditation. I would highly recommend purchasing this CD.

  • Thank you for this meltingly beautiful gift!
    author: Amanda

    I can think of nothing to say except Thank You For This Meltingly Beautiful Gift!

  • The listener cannot help but be engaged heart, mind and soul.
    author: Tim Somers

    With an open and surrendered heart, Michael's work takes one from the material world to the spiritual. Excellent!

  • Michael's angelic voice + these sacred songs = transformation
    author: Marianna Fisher

    Michael's angelic voice + these sacred songs = transformation.

  • BEAUTIFUL OUR GURU LOVES IT I AM SURE!!!!! NAMASTE
    author: JANICE COATS

    NICE TO MEDITATE TO AND HAVE PLAYING SOFTLY ALL DAY. I LOVE IT.

  • Wow!
    author: Alice

    Wow - what a beautiful, heartfelt rendition! Makes me feel so happy to play these songs while meditating. Thanks for this lovely gift!

  • This music is pure devotion
    author: Linda

    If you are into devotional kirtan, this will shower your heart with bliss. Fantastic.

  • Beyond Words, Indescribable Awe!
    author: Christine

    This is by far the most beautiful CD I have ever heard. I listen to a lot of sacred mantra music and I've struck gold with this one. It oozes with Paramahansaji's heartfelt devotion to the Divine, and Michael Dunn's voice just rolls upon your ears like pure and sacred water. I take this CD with me everywhere I go!

  • Awesome! Incredible! God inspired!
    author: K.L.

    Thanks for such an incredible gift. It is truly a gift from God.

  • loved it!
    author: Mary Allen

    Very inspired! Really I am transported every time I listen.....to me it seems like one of the most musical and heartfelt recordings of these chants that I've ever heard. Thank you!

  • Simply Beautiful (High Vibrations)
    author: Ellyn Gray

    This CD is filled with the love of God. Chant with it, or just listen and be lifted to a higher vibration. Begin and end your day with the peaceful vibrations of this album. Only one who loves God could bring such peace as you will feel with this entire album.

  • This CD is my treasure
    author: Raksha

    I feel this is the best devotional CD I have. I listen to it every night and it makes me feel overjoyed and at peace. The songs have been sung with the deepest devotion. Thank you for such an awesome job. Jai Guru and Pranam

  • A wonderful CD, full of spirit and devotion - very soothing to the soul!
    author: Jocelyn Hee, Devotee from Melbourne, Australia

    Very devotional and wonderful to listen and chant with. The readings are also beautifully intonated. I highly recommend this.

  • Simply Great
    author: Vinod Tailang

    I am highly impressed by the chants. Seems like comming directly from the singer's heart. From a devotee YSS Dhyam Kendra, Lucknow, India

  • Spiritually powerful - magnetic!
    author: Doris W.

    This artist sings to God from his heart. I was instantly moved to tears of joy the first time I listened to it. The sutras interspersed with the chants are beautifully performed and transport one into a transcendent, meditative state. This is a wonderful CD.

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