Sunday, September 20, 2015

Weekendblog - Deva Premal: Gayatri Mantra, Om Namo Bhagavate & Guru Mantra

Deva Premal

Deva Premal

D: Deva Premal (* 1970 in Nürnberg, Deutschland) ist eine New-Age-Sängerin, die durch ihre atmosphärischen Interpretationen hinduistischer Mantras bekannt geworden ist.
Sie ist die Tochter des bildenden Künstlers Wolfgang Fries und einer klassischen Musikerin, wurde schon als Kind durch Mantras und östliche Spiritualität geprägt und erhielt sehr früh Geigen-, Klavier- und Gesangsunterricht. Mit ihrem Lebenspartner, dem britischen Sänger und Gitarristen Miten, den sie 1990 in Pune im Ashram von Osho kennenlernte, gibt sie seit 1991 Konzerte in den USA, Japan, Europa, Asien, Brasilien, Kanada und Australien und veranstaltet Workshops. Von ihren CDs wurden mehr als 600.000 Exemplare produziert.

Vor oder nach den Konzerten werden oft Satsang bzw. Mantragesangs Workshops angeboten.

Quelle: Wikipedia
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Deva Premal

GB: Deva Premal (born 2 April 1970 in Nürnberg, Germany) is a musician known for her
meditative spiritual New Age music, which puts ancient Buddhist and Sanskrit mantras—as well as chants in other languages—into atmospheric contemporary settings.

Biography

Premal met her partner in life and music, Miten, at the Osho ashram in Pune, India in 1990, where she was studying reflexology, shiatsu, cranio-sacral therapy, and massage. They have been touring together since 1992, offering concerts and chant workshops worldwide.

Best known for her top-selling chant CDs, Premal is a classically trained musician who grew up singing mantras in a German home permeated with Eastern Spirituality. Her albums have topped the New Age charts throughout the world since her first release, The Essence (1998), which features the "Gayatri Mantra." Premal and Miten's record company, Prabhu Music, reports sales of over 900,000 albums.

Deva Premal began her journey with mantra in her mother's womb, as her father chanted the "Gayatri Mantra"—one of the most sacred mantras of Sanatana Dharma—to her daily. The mantra continued to be her bedtime lullaby after she was born. Many years later, she heard a friend singing the Gayatri and was inspired to put together an album highlighting its sacredness. Premal and Miten recorded The Essence (1998) in her mother's apartment in Germany, where she was born and where she first heard the Gayartri mantra.

Deva Premal brought this journey with the Gayatri Mantra full circle in July 2005, when she and Miten chanted it for her father as he was dying; "We kept singing for what must have been over half an hour, when suddenly the monitor showed that he was about to leave. I continued to sing, and the last sound he heard as he passed on was his beloved "Gayatri Mantra." Finally we ended with the mantra Om and the circle was complete. He had welcomed me onto this planet with the "Gayatri," and I accompanied him out of this physical existence with it. What a blessing this was for me! It was the first time that I was present at a death, and to be at my father’s is a memory I will cherish all my life."

In an interview with Sam Slovik of LA Yoga Magazine, Deva Premal discussed the potent effect many notice when chanting mantras:

“The meaning is secondary. The word table is not the table...with Sanskrit, the word ananda is the sound vibration of bliss. In sound the energy of bliss. We have to say bliss; we have to make it smaller by putting it into an English word. Just the sound; ananda, If we were sensitive enough, we'd just feel the entire scope of that energy that's contained in this sound... It's working on a cellular level. It's much deeper than the mind. It's not a language that you need to understand the meaning of before you use it. It's a deep Universal sound code that connects us all.”

Deva Premal's chants have been used in a wide variety of settings in recent years. Cher featured Premal's version of the "Gayatri Mantra" on her Farewell Tour and Russian Prima Ballerina Diana Vishneva danced to Deva Premal's "Gayatri" in Moses Pendleton's F.L.O.W. series. Actor/director Edward James Olmos is said to have handed out copies of Premal's "Gayatri Mantra" to the entire cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica, as well as citing her music as a source of inspiration in preparing his role as Commander Adama in the series. Mr. Olmos also used "Om Hraum Mitraya" from Deva's album Dakshina (2005) to close his HBO movie Walkout.

Deva Premal and Miten performed for The Dalai Lama during a 2002 Conference in Munich, Germany on "Unity in Duality," which brought top figures from the scientific community together with members of the Buddhist community. They gave a concert for the full conference, and were also invited to sing for the Dalai Lama at a small pre-conference gathering. They had heard that the Dalai Lama's favorite mantra was the Tara Mantra, dedicated to the Green Tara of Compassion, and that he had asked for it be chanted recently when he was ill, and so they chanted it for him.

Deva Premal's release, Tibetan Mantras for Precarious Times (2010), was recorded with the Gyuto Monks of Tibet (who are known for their tradition of overtone singing, also described as "chordal chanting") and was created as a support for mantra meditation practice, featuring eight mantras chanted 108 times each. It is a benefit CD, with all proceeds going to the Gyuto Monastery in Dharmsala, India, the Phowa Project, and Veggiyana.

Creative method

Deva Premal and Miten use a process of "natural selection" to choose the mantras on their albums.
Premal has said she gravitates toward Sanskrit mantras, rather than mantras from other languages. She says that, for her, removing her ego from her understanding of the mantra allows the creative process to express the true meaning of the mantra.

The purpose of her work was explained: "Our objective is to be open to the Goddess of music – to be true to ourselves, as musicians, as 'teachers;' as partners, and ultimately, as individuals – fellow travellers. We accomplish this by not 'trying' to accomplish anything. We take very little credit for what is happening around our so-called success (we have sold over a million albums now!) – we see our selves as messengers of a 5,000 year old tradition...so, our part in the process is simply to show up and chant." 

Source: Wikipedia
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Deva Premal

ES: Deva Premal (Núremberg, Alemania; 1970), es una cantante conocida por su música New Age meditativa espiritual, que introduce antiguos mantras en una atmósfera actual.

Deva es compañera en la vida y en la música de Miten, con quien se encontró en el Osho Ashram de Pune (India) en 1990. Juntos componen música y ofrecen conciertos por el mundo entero.

Deva recibió formación musical clásica pero creció cantando mantras en su hogar alemán, hogar impregnado de espiritualidad oriental. Sus álbumes han encabezado las listas de New Age en todo el mundo desde el lanzamiento deThe Essence, con el Gayatri Mantra. Su sello discográfico, Prabhu Music, ha vendido más de 900.000 copias

En una entrevista con Sam Slovik, del Los Angeles Yoga Magazine, Deva habló sobre el gran efecto que causa en muchos oyentes cuando canta mantras en sánscrito.

Con frecuencia, las canciones de Deva han sido utilizadas por otros artistas como Cher, que versionó el Gayatri Mantra en su Farewell Tour, la bailarina rusa Diana Vishneva, o el actor y director Edward James Olmos, entre otros.

Deva y Miten actuaron para el Dalai Lama durante la conferencia de 2002 en Múnich (Alemania) por la "Unidad en la dualidad", que reunió a figuras importantes de la comunidad científica junto con miembros de la comunidad budista.

El álbum, Tibetan Mantras For Turbulent Times, fue grabado con los monjes Gyuto del Tíbet con objeto de apoyar la práctica de la meditación y contiene ocho mantras cantados 108 veces cada uno. Se trata de un CD benéfico cuyas ganancias irán a parar a la Orden Gyuto en Dharamsala (India) el Proyecto Phowa y Veggiyana.

Fuente: Wikipedia
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Discography

1997 – Trusting the Silence (with Miten); 1998 – The Essence; 1998 – Strength of a Rose (with Miten); 2000 – Love Is Space; 2002 – Embrace; 2002 – Satsang'' (with Miten); 2003 – Songs for the Inner Lover (with Miten); 2004 – More Than Music (with Miten); 2005 – Dakshina; 2005 – Live in Byron Bay (with Miten); 2007 – Moola Mantra; 2007 – Soul in wonder (with Miten); 2008 – Into Silence; 2009 – In Concert – The Yoga of Sacred Song and Chant (with Miten and Manose); 2009 – Mantras for Precarious Times; 2009 – DevaSonic Vol 1; 2009 – DevaSonic Vol 2; 2009 – Download Singles (with Miten); 2010 – Into Light; 2010 – Tibetan Mantras for Turbulent Times; 2011 – Password; 2013 – 21-Day Mantra Meditation Journey (with Miten); 2013 – A Deeper Light (with Miten and Manose); 2013 – Mantra Love (with Miten);

Source: Wikipedia
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Deva Premal & Miten live in Concert - Gayatri Mantra, The Essence

Uploaded on Mar 27, 2007
Deva Premal and Miten share the Gayatri Mantra.


Gayatri Mantra

Sanskrit:
ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः ।
तत् सवितुर्वरेण्यं ।
भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि ।
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

Source: lyricstranslate
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Gayatri Mantra

Transliteration:
Om bhur bhuvaha svaha
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dhimahi
Dhiyo yonah prachodayat.

Source: lyricstranslate
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Gayatri Mantra

GB: Oh God! Thou art the Giver of Life,
Remover of pain and sorrow,
The Bestower of happiness,
Oh! Creator of the Universe,
May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light,
May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

Source: lyricstranslate
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Gayatri Mantra 

BR: Ó deus da vida que traz felicidade
Dá-nos tua luz que destrói pecados
Que a tua divinidade nos penetre
E possa inspirar nossa mente

Fonte: letras.mus.br
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GAYATRI MANTRA 

D: Wir verehrten das reine, göttliche Sein
Wir meditieren über den Glanz des Göttlichen
Welches unseren Geist erleuchten möge.

Quelle: songtexte.com
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OM NAMO BHAGAVATE

Uploaded on May 10, 2008
Deva Premal - OM NAMO BHAGAVATE


Om Namo Bhagavate

Sanskrit:
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय

Source: lyricstranslate
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Om Namo Bhagavate

Transliteration:
Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

Source: lyricstranslate
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Guru Mantra from Songs for the Sangha

Published on Jul 24, 2015
The Guru Mantra from Deva Premal & Miten with Manose celebrates those who support us on the journey from darkness (gu) to light (ru):

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Deva Premal u. Miten: Interview mit Deva Premal Teil 1/2 (2008)

Published on Nov 27, 2012
Interview 01 Teil 1 von Jetzt-TV: Singen und Stille 

Seit vielen Jahren geben Deva Premal u. Miten auf der ganzen Welt Konzerte und berühren mit ihren mantrischen Gesängen unzählige Menschen. In diesem Interview erzählt Deva aus ihrem Leben, von Konzertreisen, ihrer langen Geschichte mit Osho, über Miten, Musik, Meditation und vieles mehr. Das Interview mit Deva führte Devasetu auf dem Rainbow Spirit Festival 2008. 

Themen Teil 1:
Die Namen „Deva" und „Premal", Devas Begegnung mit Osho und die Verbindung zu ihm heute, Devas und Mitens Liebe zum Reisen und sich überall zu Hause fühlen, Freundschaften durch die Berührtheit durch die Musik, das Berührende durch Musik und durch die Sanskrit-Mantren, auf der Bühne stehen, viel singen -- aber kein Stimmtraining, als die Stimme einmal ganz weg war, die Entstehung der CDs im Studio, Satsang-Konzerte und Workshops 

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Deva Premal u. Miten: Interview mit Deva Premal Teil 2/2 (2008)

Published on Nov 27, 2012
Interview 01 Teil 2 von Jetzt-TV: Singen und Stille 


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