Music - My Passion - Raaga Raagini

Follow my favorites on http://www.youtube.com/mrsandeepnaidu. You will definitely like it. My favorites range from Hans Zimmer, Old Telugu Devotional Songs and of course my Guruji, one and only, His Holiness Sri Sri Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji.

Among others Maksim is a great Piano Maestro. And I did come close to attending a Seattle Symphony Concert but could not do it without a company. Same about concert in Lincoln Center. Well I do feel a little sad about that but am Happy that I have attended a lot of concerts of Sri Swamiji in Nada Mantapa and other places in India. You know Nada Mantapa is a rarest of the rare uniquely built acoustically engineered by Sri Swamiji, to bestow his graces to the world in the form of the ancient Raaga Raagini. Raaga Raagini is an ancient practice of Music which takes the musician and listeners to the heights of Yoga and Enlightment. Ancient Scriptures suggest that Lord Hanuman was the greatest practitioner of Raaga Raagini Music. From the little I know, in this practice of Music, the musician uses music to modulate cosmic energy and pranic energy. This modulation can be used for purposes like healing, and many more. Legend says that Lord Hanuman used it to melt a mountain of crystals to reveal a hidden demon and then vanquished it. Put aside the external effects, the most interesting part is that the musician/practitioner devotes his complete energy to be one with Cosmos while practising. It is as if you are meditating though your body and mind are in constant rythm to practice music. There are a very great number of people who have in modern times benefited from Sri Swamiji's concerts. The medical benefits were enormous as Sri Swamiji uses this great science to rejuvinate the Naadi System in the body and modulate the life force in a patient. This is one more unique blend where Sri Swamiji combined Raaga Raagini Music, Ayurveda and Yoga together and also added a blend of Devotion into it to encourage pious thinking in the mankind. Trust me, they really made a lot of difference to thousands of people in many ways both physical and spiritual.

A good start will be Kaala Traya Bodhitam which is my favorite for the past 15 years. Personally that inspired me to think of the cosmos very deeply when I was 17 years old. Oops I almost gave away my age to the reader. :) I don't bother. Take these Music Ensembles and listen every night or when you are free. A lot of difference will be seen.

By the way, there are 6 Raagas and 36 Raaginis. That is all I know of Raaga Raagini Music as of now.

Earth's Magnetism and Life on earth

I was reading an interesting article in GEO (Nov 2009) edition. The article was on the Earth's interiors and evaluating on how many facts were established till now. The writer Bill Bryson, who was the original author of the article, rightly pointed out that we know more about Sun than we know about the Earth. Of all the great facts put forward, like the 13 major tectonic plates and their movement and the fact that the plates are just wafers floating on the liquid mantle and much deeper into the mantle are many unknown phenomena, the single most thought provoking subject was about the consequences of convectional currents in the liquid mantle that can/will result in the reversal of the magnetic patterns of the earth.

I started thinking what is the survival rate or effects of the so-called reversal. Since all biologically living organisms on/under Earth have biological clocks and systems built according to magnetic patterns of the earth since it is a very strong influential force, the reversal and the duration of the reversal can have very strange effects. Bird migration patterns will change. People who are healthy mentally and physically could survive longer if the duration where there is less magnetic force spitted out continues for a longer time. As the magnetic patterns are responsible for protecting the Earth from the continuous burst of cosmic rays from Sun into Van Allen belts, we may observe a total disruption of the civilized world which heavily depends on Electronics based on Silicon Chips and metal carriers. For that matter, what will happen for the babies not yet delivered.

Certainly, as I know, there was never a study on the effects of Cosmic Rays on Humans for long duration. But it will be one more interesting scientific studies that can make a huge difference, if we enter into a time were there is a reversal process of magnetic field of Earth that endures like 10 years (this is an assumed scenario) and the ways of human survival during that time when the Cosmic Rays start damaging our DNA.

Will some cheaply produced space suit help all mankind? Will Yoga help? (Don't laugh, it might as well do that, as it is to do with the energies in a human body). Will the humans have safe drinking water or will be contaminated? Will food produced over the soil be edible? Temperatures in the seasons of course is a big if? What will happen to the electric generators and the huge electric storage devices? Will some of the bacterial infection reign over Earth killing more species because those are the right climatic conditions for it? Will Human behavior and psychology change(I am not that worried here as it is not very great now)? Will that mean during this time there will be more convective burst from the mantle resulting in devastating earthquakes? What happens to the whole Eco System?

Sounds like a 2012 story... :) But certainly this is something that I know all of the scientist community is thinking about.