Album Notes

On the banks of the holy river Ganges in northern India, is an ancient Shiva temple where in 1988 Swami Rama recorded this chanting of AUM. As you listen to this simple yet profound recording, you are carried by the singular voice of Swami Rama chanting AUM with only electronic tanpura for accompaniment. Mysteriously this sound grows and grows throughout the recording though no instruments have been added. Finally the entire temple is vibrating and reverberating with this cosmic sound spiraling throughout the shrine as it stimulates the temple bells to sympathetically resonate.

Swami Rama was a fully enlightened master and a representative of an ancient lineage of yogis who confer in their high initiations direct experience into the mysteries of consciousness. They are the founders and custodians of the science of meditation. Swami Rama left his body in November 1996.