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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_member15" data-source="post: 168451" data-attributes="member: 17438"><p>I always find it to be immensely comforting to think that, all around the world human beings - of various races, religions and cultures - in a whole multitude of diverse languages, are singing praise to God - to the Name with sweet melodies and their own national instruments. For as Blessed Jan Van Ruysbroeck (1293 – 1381)said, "<em>By reason of his common love, which God has towards all men, he has caused his Name and the liberation of human nature to be preached and revealed to the uttermost parts of the earth</em>". </p><p> </p><p>Kirtan interests me very much. I have always been fond of the use of musical instruments and chants during religious services. It made me ponder on the question of <em>kirtan </em>in the context of the World Religions. </p><p> </p><p>In the Catholic tradition the mystic Richard Rolle in England described <em>chant </em>(Kirtan) in the following wonderful manner (I wonder if some Sikhs feel the same way when doing kirtan?): </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"...The highest love of God consists in three things: in burning fervour, in song, and in sweetness. And I, who am an expert, have found that these three are not able to persist for a long time without great quiet in spirit...I call it <em>fervour</em> when the mind is truly ablaze with eternal love, and the heart similarly feels itself burning with a love that is not imaginary but real. For a heart set on fire produces a feeling of fiery love. I call it <em>song</em> when already in the soul, burning fervour abounding, the smoothness of eternal praise is taken up and meditation is transformed into song, thought turns into song and the mind lingers in honey-flowing melody; in thrall to sweetest harmony...The soul in whom are met these three things I have been speaking of remains completely impervious...she continues to think all the time of her Beloved, rising ever higher, with her will unbroken, and her love stimulated...His heart is bursting with song, a captive...</span><span style="font-size: 12px">It is the nature of love to melt the heart. For sweet love and a devout heart so dissolve in the divine sweetness that the will of man is united with the will of God in a remarkable friendship. In this union there is poured into the loving soul such sweetness of warmth, delight, and song that he who experiences it is quite unable to describe it...." </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12px">- Richard Rolle (1290–1349), Catholic mystic</span></em></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Read: </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In Catholicism, traditionally, it is a more sombre affair ie with Gregorian Chant which tried to create an almost "otherworldy", ethereal, angelic sound. There is a point in such Chants called the "<em>Jubilus". </em>In the Bible Saint Paul described this supreme, spiritual climax in the chant metaphorically as being the "tongue of angels". To speak then in the tongue of angels is to be so ecstatic with prayer that one moves beyond words. This is because words bring God down to the artificial human level of concepts and thoughts. God is so far above our understanding and so sometimes we move beyond language all together and just praise him with all of our being, which manifests itself in a gibberish-sounding language that is quite wordless and apparently unintelligible because it comes from the heart and not from the rational mind. </p><p> </p><p>Episodes of this are related by the Fathers. They called this "Jubilation" or in Latin the Jubilus, which came to refer in High Church Gregorian Chant to the moment when the monks singing stop saying actual words and lapse into an eerie sounding "Ahh-ah-ahh" you know what i mean, those heavenly-like elongated "a's" - wordless but heartfelt praise. </p><p> </p><p>St. Jerome (347-420 A.D.) writes:</p><p> </p><p><strong>By the term jubilus we understand that which neither in words, nor syllables, nor letters, nor speech, is it possible to express or comprehend, namely, how much man ought to praise God. (Ps. xxxii.3)</strong></p><p> </p><p>And St Augustine (354–430 C.E.) comments on this phenomenon:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>"...What is jubilation? Joy that cannot be expressed in words. Yet the voice expresses what is conceived in the heart and cannot be explained in words. This is jubilation...Where speech does not suffice… To manifest his joy, the man does not use words that can be pronounced or understood, but bursts forth into sounds of exaltation without words...they break out into singing on vowel sounds, that through this means the feeling of the soul may be expressed, words failing to explain the heart’s conceptions</strong>..."<em> - St. Augustine (Commentary on Psalms)</em></p><p> </p><p>We know that this practice of jubilation was widespread in the early church and continued for centuries. For example, the Benedictine theologian Rupert of Deutz (1075-1130 A.D.), spoke of the devotional prayer practice of jubilation that continued in his day:</p><p> </p><p><strong>We jubilate rather than sing, and extend a short syllable over several neums or groups of neums, in order that the spirit may be moved by the beautiful sounds</strong></p><p> </p><p>The standard form in Catholicism to express this "jubilation" became Gregorian Chant, which truly is angelic. Just listen to this: </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPFkjrkdno" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0066cc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPFkjrkdno</span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW5oi7HkRrQ" target="_blank">GREGORIAN CHANT-RELAXATION MEDITATION-Haunting spiritual emotional soothing human voice - YouTube</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MbDqc3x97k" target="_blank"><span style="color: #444466">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MbDqc3x97k</span></a></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ela-Z7HqqS8&feature=related" target="_blank">Chant - The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos - YouTube</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note the climactic moments when the monks stop singing with words and ascend to "wordless", syllabic sounds of great beauty to express praise for the ineffable, infinite, indescribable God for whom human language is too limiting. </p><p> </p><p>Here is Amazing Grace sung in the style of Gregorian Chant in English: </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HO9-TZh8tA&feature=related" target="_blank">Gregorian Chants - Amazing Grace (**Beautiful Christian song & music**) - YouTube</a></p><p> </p><p>Apparently, there have been scientific studies which confirm that religious chant can be incredibly soothing and healing for one's mind. There are some that suggest Gregorian Chant to be the most soothing and calming sounds ever produced by humanity, with a noticeable lessening of tension and strain on the heart recorded after patients listened too and meditated with Gregorian Chant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_member15, post: 168451, member: 17438"] I always find it to be immensely comforting to think that, all around the world human beings - of various races, religions and cultures - in a whole multitude of diverse languages, are singing praise to God - to the Name with sweet melodies and their own national instruments. For as Blessed Jan Van Ruysbroeck (1293 – 1381)said, "[I]By reason of his common love, which God has towards all men, he has caused his Name and the liberation of human nature to be preached and revealed to the uttermost parts of the earth[/I]". Kirtan interests me very much. I have always been fond of the use of musical instruments and chants during religious services. It made me ponder on the question of [I]kirtan [/I]in the context of the World Religions. In the Catholic tradition the mystic Richard Rolle in England described [I]chant [/I](Kirtan) in the following wonderful manner (I wonder if some Sikhs feel the same way when doing kirtan?): [SIZE=3]"...The highest love of God consists in three things: in burning fervour, in song, and in sweetness. And I, who am an expert, have found that these three are not able to persist for a long time without great quiet in spirit...I call it [I]fervour[/I] when the mind is truly ablaze with eternal love, and the heart similarly feels itself burning with a love that is not imaginary but real. For a heart set on fire produces a feeling of fiery love. I call it [I]song[/I] when already in the soul, burning fervour abounding, the smoothness of eternal praise is taken up and meditation is transformed into song, thought turns into song and the mind lingers in honey-flowing melody; in thrall to sweetest harmony...The soul in whom are met these three things I have been speaking of remains completely impervious...she continues to think all the time of her Beloved, rising ever higher, with her will unbroken, and her love stimulated...His heart is bursting with song, a captive...[/SIZE][SIZE=3]It is the nature of love to melt the heart. For sweet love and a devout heart so dissolve in the divine sweetness that the will of man is united with the will of God in a remarkable friendship. In this union there is poured into the loving soul such sweetness of warmth, delight, and song that he who experiences it is quite unable to describe it...." [/SIZE] [B][I][SIZE=3]- Richard Rolle (1290–1349), Catholic mystic[/SIZE][/I][/B] Read: In Catholicism, traditionally, it is a more sombre affair ie with Gregorian Chant which tried to create an almost "otherworldy", ethereal, angelic sound. There is a point in such Chants called the "[I]Jubilus". [/I]In the Bible Saint Paul described this supreme, spiritual climax in the chant metaphorically as being the "tongue of angels". To speak then in the tongue of angels is to be so ecstatic with prayer that one moves beyond words. This is because words bring God down to the artificial human level of concepts and thoughts. God is so far above our understanding and so sometimes we move beyond language all together and just praise him with all of our being, which manifests itself in a gibberish-sounding language that is quite wordless and apparently unintelligible because it comes from the heart and not from the rational mind. Episodes of this are related by the Fathers. They called this "Jubilation" or in Latin the Jubilus, which came to refer in High Church Gregorian Chant to the moment when the monks singing stop saying actual words and lapse into an eerie sounding "Ahh-ah-ahh" you know what i mean, those heavenly-like elongated "a's" - wordless but heartfelt praise. St. Jerome (347-420 A.D.) writes: [B]By the term jubilus we understand that which neither in words, nor syllables, nor letters, nor speech, is it possible to express or comprehend, namely, how much man ought to praise God. (Ps. xxxii.3)[/B] And St Augustine (354–430 C.E.) comments on this phenomenon: [B]"...What is jubilation? Joy that cannot be expressed in words. Yet the voice expresses what is conceived in the heart and cannot be explained in words. This is jubilation...Where speech does not suffice… To manifest his joy, the man does not use words that can be pronounced or understood, but bursts forth into sounds of exaltation without words...they break out into singing on vowel sounds, that through this means the feeling of the soul may be expressed, words failing to explain the heart’s conceptions[/B]..."[I] - St. Augustine (Commentary on Psalms)[/I] We know that this practice of jubilation was widespread in the early church and continued for centuries. For example, the Benedictine theologian Rupert of Deutz (1075-1130 A.D.), spoke of the devotional prayer practice of jubilation that continued in his day: [B]We jubilate rather than sing, and extend a short syllable over several neums or groups of neums, in order that the spirit may be moved by the beautiful sounds[/B] The standard form in Catholicism to express this "jubilation" became Gregorian Chant, which truly is angelic. Just listen to this: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPFkjrkdno"][COLOR=#0066cc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYPFkjrkdno[/COLOR][/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW5oi7HkRrQ"]GREGORIAN CHANT-RELAXATION MEDITATION-Haunting spiritual emotional soothing human voice - YouTube[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MbDqc3x97k"][COLOR=#444466]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MbDqc3x97k[/COLOR][/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ela-Z7HqqS8&feature=related"]Chant - The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos - YouTube[/url] Note the climactic moments when the monks stop singing with words and ascend to "wordless", syllabic sounds of great beauty to express praise for the ineffable, infinite, indescribable God for whom human language is too limiting. Here is Amazing Grace sung in the style of Gregorian Chant in English: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HO9-TZh8tA&feature=related"]Gregorian Chants - Amazing Grace (**Beautiful Christian song & music**) - YouTube[/url] Apparently, there have been scientific studies which confirm that religious chant can be incredibly soothing and healing for one's mind. There are some that suggest Gregorian Chant to be the most soothing and calming sounds ever produced by humanity, with a noticeable lessening of tension and strain on the heart recorded after patients listened too and meditated with Gregorian Chant. [/QUOTE]
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