Spiritual Healing: Bhakthi Sankeertan - Healing through music

By Krupa Darshan

The mind and body are connected. The human mind is not housed in the brain as per the conventional thought but rather; the mind is present everywhere and therefore pervades every cell of the body. What is the human mind? Mind is an aggregate of all life experiences be it pain, pleasure, hurt, anger, joy, anxiety; it could be anything.

Any positive emotion causes a cell to vibrate at a higher frequency and negative vibrations cause the cells to vibrate at lower frequency. The negative emotion is nothing but an incompletely experienced emotion. These emotions when stored in the cells of the body are the diseases. We have read the experiences of saints and sages where they recount how every cell of their bodies are filled with the emotions of love and gratitude whenever they had praised the Supreme Light. And these emotions which ultimately are nothing but the energies at different levels of vibrations would vibrate in much higher frequency, allowing them to enter into a profound state of bliss and oneness with the Supreme Consciousness.

People who have experienced the divine in their personal life and have sung bhajans in full emotion and freedom have experienced every emotion getting fully experienced under the fire of their passion. And one would find them moving into bliss, as experiencing any hidden emotion within, completely releases that emotion. The result is the actual healing of the mind and the body.

A complete healing of mind and body would occur, when you deal with the disease and not just the symptoms of the disease. Dealing with the disease here means, experiencing the emotion completely, whereby it converts into bliss, leading to a very sound mental and physical health. With the help of this experience, one leads a happy and a satisfied life.

From the ancient times, music is something that has put people, in touch with their inner most feelings. Different kind of music works upon different emotions of an individual, and releases the various incomplete emotions leading towards a total healing of body and mind. Bhakthi sankeertan is the easiest way to experience total liberation. In fact it is said in the Bhagavat Mahapuran,

“Harirnaama harirnaama
harirnamaiva kevalam
Kalaha naasti eva naasti
eva gatiranyata “

Participants experience various states of repentance, prayer, silence, love, compassion, brotherhood and oneness during the course of the sankeerans. And the highest of all states is the manifestation of the Antaryamin. This divine communion liberates them from all their suffering and transports them into heights of rapture. Even the greatest of teachings make their way into the hearts of the devotees when taught through the medium of sankeertans. Forgiveness and love are natural happenings during the sankeertans. People dance and sing in joyful abandon, and pain becomes a thing of the past as they are filled with divine love.


The Bhakthi Yagna (1 day course) of the Golden Age Movement are conducted with the objective of helping each individual achieve mystical communion with their Antaryamin, whereby, God is no more a concept but a living reality. Bhakthi sankertans are the medium used to help people receive this Divine benediction.