About Classical Vedic Devotional Songs

The devotional songs on this CD mainly fall into the categories of particular genres of Vedic Classical Devotional ​Song known as Stotrams and Kirtaans.

Stotrams are scholarly authentic Vedic texts,  used in pujas and yagya technologies for thousands of years to avert calamities, purify the body, mind, and environment and maintain balance, health, well-being, and bliss. The Stotrams and Kiraans ​on this CD are songs characterized by simple, traditional, and sweet melodies, much repetition, and simple and lively rhythms. They are therefore ideal for teaching young students as well as students of all ages. It is said of Vedic Devotional Songs that if they are sung with surrender and devotion in the heart and mind to deep inner silence, then established in that silence, blessings flow to the singers from the cosmic administrator they are representing. These serene ancient songs are sung today in India in much the same manner as they were several thousands of years ago in Vedic times; passed down through the oral tradition of teaching Vedic Knowledge that includes Vedic Music. They enliven the two-fold use of Swara or "frequency." That is, frequencies in terms of the tonality of Vedic Music, as well as in terms of the reverberations of the Veda in the Sanskrit text.