Guru Ganesha: The Ageless Art of Kirtan
You basically become what you vibrate. The mantra is: in the Beginning was the Word, right, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. And the Word is basically deep down is Om. Like, you’re OMTimes, right? That sound current is constantly going to, I’m sure you’ve experienced when you go into deep meditation you can almost hear that infinite Om that’s that. The more time we spend vibrating at the soul’s frequency, the more happiness we feel and the more that people want to be around us because they feel uplifted just being in your presence.
Liane Buck: Exactly.
Guru Ganesha: You don’t really have to do anything or say anything. You know, people ask me are you teaching and this and that. I say no, I just chant because I think that your personal presence, particularly when you’re chanting and vibrating from your heart center, that’s what’s transformational for people, because everybody has a great teacher in their own heart.
Liane Buck: Absolutely.
Guru Ganesha: So, I don’t really need to tell anybody anything. I just try to create opportunities for people to feel their own divinity, you know?
Liane Buck: Yes. Yes, that’s so beautiful and liberating at the same time. So, this is what you think then would be the role of sacred music in the Aquarian Age?
Guru Ganesha: Yes, is to create opportunities for people to feel their essence, their light, their soul. Like for example, I just set up a concert for the fall in a bunch of Midwestern cities that rarely are visited by chant artists, because I know there’re beautiful souls in these cities but hardly anybody visits them. And I don’t care if it makes any money or not because I do it as a seven.
Liane Buck: Yes.
Guru Ganesha: It’s just when you set up a chant concert, and even if only a hundred or 200, whoever comes, you’re giving them an opportunity to also sit with Sadh Sangat. Everybody gets uplifted by each other. So, I mean, to me the more chanting, whether it’s in a concert hall or in a living room, the better off the whole planet is.
Liane Buck: So, you are doing this as almost as a missionary work, isn’t it?
Guru Ganesha: Yeah, this is for me because I have I’ve had a whole other business that’s done really well. You know, I’ve been graced by the divine. I’m making the music as a Seva to give back. And we’re even pricing the concerts very low, just enough to cover the hall and the and to pay my musicians are younger and they still are householders.
Liane Buck: Do You regard Seva as an important part also of your spiritual practice?
Guru Ganesha: Absolutely. That’s the highest form of living: selfless-serving others, and without thought of getting anything in return. In fact, the best Seva is anonymous, where you don’t even require an acknowledgment, you know.
