This introductory Lightening Bugs song reveals the deep meaning, the essence of Bhakti or devotional yoga - a demystification of the oceanic Vedic philosophy & a reminder of the very simple, natural (though often neglected) essence of all yogic techniques - deep breathing.
lyrics
Alan Watts:
"Idea... Man and woman are to each other as mutual guru and student. And through a tremendous outpouring of psychic energy, in total devotion and worship of this other person, who is respectively the goddess or the god, you realize by total fusion and contact with the other forces.
You go down to the divine center in them and it bounces back and you discover your own. Then you see, you’ve actually –uh, a kind of uh, what I would call a spiritual element has been introduced and uh, t
The Hindus were sensible enough to realize that this was a means of awakening enlightenment and therefore it was surrounded with a sort of rigid religious ritual meditative art with a form of sexual yoga that is designed to allow the feeling of mutual love to the extent of grand passion to have an extremely fitting fulfillment and expression."
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credits
from Lightning Bugs,
released June 23, 2014
Vocals, Drums: Atendriya Dasa
Guitars: Blind Lemon Lyman
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