Ravi Shankar - The Spirit of India (full album)

Alap 00:00
Jor 13:40
Gat I (Tala: Jhap-tal) 26:21
Gat II (Tala: Ek-tal) 43:31
Raga Hameer 50:13
Musicians :
Sitar -- Ravi Shankar
Tabla -- Alla Rakha
Tambura [Tanpura] -- Mrs. Jiban, Mrs. Widya
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Phonographic Copyright (p) -- Polydor International GmbH
Made By -- PMDC, Germany
Printed By -- Neef
Recorded At -- Studio des Dames

[@abrahampalmer1153]

do any young people under 30 like this type of music.

[@vishusharma8566]

That would be me 24, India :)

[@maggielippiatt4904]

Abraham Palmer I do I'm 33 bit feel younger .. I could listen all day. Wouldn't get much done tho

[@MreenalMams]

26 here..

[@DOGTOWN17]

Plenty of younger people love this magic music...if they don’t ....well then more magic music for us

[@keepyoureyespeeled1]

Yeah, that's me. Born in '89. I'll only be under 30 for another year, but I'll take the title while I can.

[@yvonneharrison3644]

When I was a young teen I heard this sound, it was tabla and sitar. It sang to every part of me. Been hooked since. I am a 61 yr old black woman from Oakland. Play on sweet spirit

[@atriacharya2967]

Great to know that you like ancient Indian culture, ma'am.

[@elgonm289]

Yvonne ,.yes you are just Beautiful woman and your colour of your lovely being is immaterial my dear lady 🙏🙏🙏 be at peace with your world and what your spirit is..always

[@burroughscurt]

I love it too Yvonne! Greetings from a Southern dude now living in Germany. Blessings to you!

[@tombskater3000]

what dat zestimate b

[@xoxo_1990]

I wish to know that when so many westerners do have good idea of bliss and are seekers themselves...why the western world is called as materialistic world. Can any body help me with that?

[@dreaminez472]

First I found the sitar. Then the Dharma found me. India, you are a gift to this world. This music is love, pure and simple. ❤

[@nathanashley2693]

Fist comes the sitar!

[@kim7gwdchrregramos805]

I take refuge in Sanatana Dharma Jai

[@rayjr62]

Dig: Art is how we decorate emptiness, music is how we decorate silence.

[@LSSoldo]

Indeed - LOVE ! - and BEAUTY !, and tremendous INSPIRATION !, and sense of "being back Home"; finally!!! That's what the Heart of India is all about! 🙏❤🙏

[@JudithHostel]

Where u from?

[@mnmlst1]

Before I was born, my parents used to play Ravi Shankar to me. I was born loving this even though Ive never been to India (I'm from Brazil). I'm 40 and listening to Ravi Shankar feels like a safe haven to me. I wish people would enjoy these type of music more, the ones without voice and that makes us just silence ourselves and enjoy the complete present.

[@pmgrafael]

Rapaz, eu sou alguns meses mais novo e meu pai costumava tocar isso quando eu era crianca. Hoje, mesmo depois de décadas, ainda ouco Shankar. De uma coisa eu tenho certeza: tivemos sorte, muita sorte ao sermos introduzidos a tamanha genialidade desde os nossos primórdios!

[@RogerioDec]

56 anos aqui. No hospital, internado, recebendo quimioterapia para tratamento de um linfoma incurável. E... Absoluta paz no coração ao ouvir Ravi Shankar, que ouço desde minha adolescência. Certeza absoluta que já fui indiano um dia, pela felicidade que sinto neste universo de música celestial.

[@pmgrafael]

@@RogerioDec te desejo toda a forca do mundo, Rogerio! Abracao da Austria!

[@leandroafonso]

@@RogerioDec espero que esteja melhor amigo. Saúde, paz e pensamentos elevados! Nunca se esqueça do senhor, de Deus, senhor Krishna. Assim você sempre estará em profunda conexão e nada te aflingirá!

[@kingjsolomon]

I learned about Ravi Shankar after falling in love with Hindustani culture and music in high school. I took a world religions class and obsessed over all of the eastern music. Hindustani classical music is truly divine. I am now 22. Been listening since 15, will listen forever! Namaste, Jai Ram

[@crotalusatrox7931]

Blessed you are and as me you'll be blessed by Ravi as long as you listen. Such a trival thing, to listen, oh but to become enlightened through what you hear and then to project.

[@micshaz]

i am 10+ years on you, and i can confidently say good job kid now - but honestly, we are both children when it comes to this music so i'm just having fun with it.

[@kartikmanitripathi9140]

🇮🇳❤️

[@stevecosmolove1045]

@@micshaz 32 and 22, you are both kiddos lol. Once you enter the 70s and 80s you can "confidently say good job kid"

[@ChemCorps]

Hindustan is just the oppression of khalistan and Sikhs.

[@katsujinkin60]

I first heard Ravi Shankar on Public Radio in N.Y.C. one night in 1967. I had heard the sitar before, played by George Harrison on Rubber Soul, and had even heard an electric sitar in several Rock songs of the psychedelic ilk. But I had never heard the "real" thing from a true master before. I was transported! Time became irrelevant, and music from 2,000 years ago felt as fresh as any new offering from The Fab Four. I got on the subway, which ran right outside my window in The Bronx, and journeyed down to Greenwich Village, which for a Black kid from Fort Apache was quite an existential journey. I went directly to the source, Bleeker Bob's Village Record Store! For lover's of esoteric music, this was Mecca! It was like stepping into Ali Baba's treasure cave. You felt knee deep in diamonds, rubies, and pearls. You couldn't reach out on either side without touching something rare and precious. Of course they had Ravi Shankar, it was Bleeker Bob's for crying out loud! I bundled my treasure back up to The Bronx, and literally sat with my head between the speakers, imbibing every sweet, eternal note. I saw Ravi play at Lincoln Center, where I worked years later, he was a household name by then, especially after his performance at The Monterey Pop Festival. Bleeker Bob's has been replaced by a Starbuck's! The Villages, both West and East have been gentrified into oblivion, but Ravi Shankar lives on , in his music, and in his two beautiful, talented daughters. Thank you, Ravi for expanding the mind of that 15 year old kid from uptown!

[@pallabi_chakraborty]

What a tremendous tribute

[@katsujinkin60]

@@pallabi_chakrabortyThank you. I meant every word. I even ended up playing in a band with a high school friend who played a real sitar. We were the hit of The Bronx High School Of Science!

[@akashbhasin788]

​@@katsujinkin60what a beautiful description mate. Hope you are all well 🙏

[@katsujinkin60]

@@akashbhasin788 Thank you, my friend. I recently watched "Monterey Pop" again for the first time in decades. I was surprised at how well most of the performances had stood the test of time. However, the final performance stood out as something truly transcendent. We hear the ethereal tones of sitar, tambura, and tabla. We do not see the source of the music, only the faces and reactions of the people in the crowd. Eyes wide and dreamy, they seem transfixed by something beyond their experience, so new and yet so ancient. Eventually we come to a closeup of Ravi Shankar plucking his beautiful sitar. Tabla and sitar call to each other playfully, while the tambura drones hypnotically in the background. The speed and intensity increase to a level almost painful in it's beauty. The best part though, is the crowd reaction. It is 1967, "The Summer of Love", and these young faces are open and eager for powerful new experience. This is the culmination of the breakthrough from the black and white 1950's into the Technicolor 60's. The funniest sight is seeing now famous musicians sitting there mesmerized with their mouths hanging open. They may have been at the top of the music charts, but for this brief moment they were wide eyed children, sitting at the feet of the master! It is a supreme moment in the history of popular culture. Glorious! All the best to you, mate. Be well and prosper!

[@gruyerolivier1842]

Hello !! I m a French composer. I discovered RS.thanks to G.H!! OM !!!peace and love from Paris

[@renudebidin521]

To everyone who is reading this have a great day and God bless you and your family

[@hanselmansell7555]

❤🧡💛

[@chinookvalley]

Thank you, and you too.

[@jaenmartens5697]

And to you as well 🌞

[@isl1470]

I'm 19 and i'm studying my exams with this beatiful music. Love from turkey

[@nartron3000]

Love from California from an Armenian my brother.

[@toprakserifgozden6034]

19 yaşında ben de sınavlarıma bu müziklerle çalışıyordum. Şimdi Hindistan'dayım, bu müzikleri çalışıyorum :')

[@isl1470]

@@toprakserifgozden6034 Aaa hangi şehirde ne okuyorsun?

[@toprakserifgozden6034]

@@isl1470 Kuzey'de, Himalayalar'ın eteklerinde sayılabilecek bir yere yerleştim, yogic sciences üzerine yüksek yapıyorum. Müzikle ilgili olarak şu an Rishikesh'teyim, bir ashram'da sitar eğitimi alıyorum :)

[@toddholmes4480]

I visited Turkey once years ago. Beautiful country, great history, very kind people. ☪

[@ronfairfieldmirrorartist4541]

I started listening to Raviji when I was 14, I am now 68 and I had the pleasure of seeing him perform twice over the years. It still moves me.

[@kennelson5790]

Same as with me , I was 17 now 72 . I was introduced by way of Georg Harrison's intrest , in not just the sitar but Hinduism and how it all connected. It led me to the places I didn't know yet but found them , and learned it was here all along .

[@HaramiHoshiyaar]

Woah😯

[@user-qm8cm1dn2v]

"Your Heart Matters in the Chaotic World Why is the world so chaotic It’s the unkind heart begetting disasters Without faith in the divine, one meets with disintegration and loss of life at the end times Modern notions and conduct are demons’ companions Gods did not create humans to have them live in such decrepitude Instead to give them the chance of returning to heaven The Creator turns the Falun [Law Wheel] with boundless mercy Fame, gain, and qing [emotions] are not what you came to Earth for Stay away from the mad evil Party and avoid calamities at the end times You are victorious only if you are spared amid the great elimination 2020 * Fa [Heavenly Law] Is in the Human World I sing aloud a song to express my heart Most people come from heavens above Reincarnating time and again, so many lifetimes Buried in the dust so as to obtain the Fa The Holy Creator has entered the world of dust Quietly observing all kinds in the chaotic world Atheism and evolution are evil doctrines The red demon ruins the world viciously like a cancer Modern notions are a form of corruption He holds back the violent wave, eliminating the fog of evil Rectifying the human world with grand compassion and grace Heaven and Earth regain brilliance like the fabled Isle of Penglai November 8, 2020" Master Li Hongzhi (Hong Yin VI, from Falun Dafa teachings)

[@chinookvalley]

My friend just entered into eternal bliss. I find peace in knowing that he is surrounded by light, he is pain free, and without worry. He IS Buddhist, and my hero. Hello Michael! See you soon my dear, sweet, kind friend. I love you forever and always, all ways. Missing you till then.

[@druckiplutnik342]

Words can not describe how close to India's music my soul is. Actually I'm Hindu inside. Beautiful and profound music. Love and peace from Poland.

[@raziel5719]

Look inside , maybe u'll find who u were before

[@callixvision6481]

@@raziel5719 lol

[@richardrickford3028]

Love and peace to you from South West London. I absolutely love this music too. I was feeling really stressed earlier this afternoon but now I have closed my eyes and meditated with this wonderful music I feel now much much better.

[@Lerner7]

Hindu not a religion it's a geographical name from the river Shindhu but we follow dhrama(duties) according to our nature and understanding

[@matouslitera8073]

19 years old. Just found this music genre and fell in love!

[@JohnSampson]

I listened to Ravi Shankar almost exclusively from my teenage years. I am now 72 years old, and the magic of his music still endures. It is wonderful that Anoushka and her sister Nora Jones can be a part of that legacy.

[@saifulrimkeit296]

John Sampson I have done similar, but not listened as often as you have. However Ravi Shankar is always being rediscovered now and then since the late 60s and early 70s by my wife and I. Perhaps the following needs correction on a comment Master Shankar mentioned when visiting Marin County, California around 1974. It goes something like this -- paraphrased with humor imbedded into it: Master Shankar mentions that, after studying under his tutor for about 10-12 years, his tutor tells him "That is all I can teach you, but if you keep at it, you do show some promise of success".

[@aus10ca]

+John Sampson Sadly very few people in India listen to this great music, most kids just listen to Indi-pop and Bollywood music which isn't quite the same. Maybe I'm just getting old :(

[@rajendrajadeja113]

+John Sampson . It's great that you have been listening to Pt Ravi Shankar for so many years, he is a true legend in our music. But may I also recommend, when you have time, to look up other truly great sitarists such as Ust Vilayat Khan who was from a similar generation to Pt Shankar. More recently others like Pt Budhaditya Mukerjee and Ust Shahid Parveez just to name a couple. I am confident if you do than it will open a new horizon for you as to what else is on offer. Off course there are other great masters who play other instruments or are vocalists but you can explore these as you try the others. Best wishes

[@LOQUITAA2]

yes they look alot alike too

[@18Ram]

oh yes. listening to that music for so long has made me an expert on handjobs

[@thomcharbonneau6978]

In 1965 I was 16. I was 17. I went to see Ravi Shankar live. I was a fan then. It is now 2020. Still find this a mesmerizing place to find calmness of spirit.

[@dawudislam5895]

I'm blessed to be born Indian and sitar is truly our identity. Sitar is my most favourite and respectful musical instrument. I love the soulful pieces from all the sitar players that I have known. How I wished I had taken up playing sitar seriously. Mrs Hajra D Islam

[@hLwMfNwQ]

It's never to late, try it when you love it

[@JNeil1975]

I love the music of India. It is very spiritual to me.

[@kensaladin174]

As an American college student of the 1960s-70s, I came to love Ravi Shankar. I find myself today, at nearly 70, using KZbin to introduce Ravi and Anoushka to a young man in India who has never heard of them.

[@billfarley4735]

I wonder if Trump listens to Ravi Shankar.

[@axiomist1076]

That is incredible. India has gotten mired in the western style garbage that is popular music over there. The fact that someone in India doesnt even know Ravi Shankar is shocking.

[@xoxo_1990]

Even if people are born in india, they still don't realize the beauty of ancient indian philosophy. I am not sure whom to blame, but that's the real sad part. But there is an awakening now. We have been betrayed by being told that happy life means woldly materialistic pleasures contrary to what our forefathers just one or two generations never thought so.

[@crotalusatrox7931]

One should honor the music of one's country. Bharat Ratna Ravi Shankar.

[@ricardooliva4034]

@@billfarley4735 why not? Or Why yes?

[@shellerwilliam4221]

I am a French music composer. I really love Indian music. It brought me a lot during my studies of European classical music.

[@vv6533]

Are there any similarities between them? I've heard western classical music and I feel like it's completely different from Indian classical music both in terms of sound and rythm.

[@artofcinematography2840]

@@vv6533 it depends more on composer, mozart is more closer to austria but bach is more universal

[@sagniksingha]

@@vv6533 I live in the US these days and had the opportunity to listen to European Classical from close quarters many orchestra friends here and mom lives in India who is an India classical singer. Most prominent differences: 1. European Classical - Usually involved mass instrumentalists. There are solo artists but legendary pieces are in a big setting. Also, notes are cut or prolonged. The concept of gradually going from one note to another is rare. 2. Indian - Mostly soloists. Most you'll ever see is a tabla player and a tambura player alongside the soloist (so 3, as opposed to 40 in an orchestra or 20 in chamber music...exceptions exist). Also, as in this album you'll see Alaps...taking a note and slowly blending into another note is paramount. Cut or prolongation of same note are rare. Ofcourse all these are my observations.

[@glennbrymer4065]

I started listening when I was 19 in 1971. I'd just been retired out of the US Army after being badly hurt overseas. This music brought me a little peace.

[@bcnzpb]

I remember going to India in the 90s to find myself. I found India instead. It is forever in my heart. This music captures the soul of that beautiful nation perfectly for me. And its amazing people.

[@carld5575]

Bang on. I went for a 2 week holiday to Dheli. I never got on plane home but instead I lived in Old Dheli for 3 months then lived on a hose boat on Lake Srinigar and stayed in a temple for a few weeks. I think I would like to sell my house when older and take my money to India 💫✨

[@mbangroo]

@@carld5575 was that temple called 'zethyar' by any chance?

[@carld5575]

@@mbangroo not sure but it was beautiful. We also stayed on huge house boats around lake Srinigar. Wonderful pla e ✨✨

[@joanneaxelrod5651]

Try going to costa rica to find yourself with help from the mother Ahauaska...

[@joanneaxelrod5651]

Great idea but they still gotta plant a few million more trees before the rivers streams and lakes regenerate..there is a generation of kids that never saw the river flow in the gullies they play in the dirt in..only when flash floods

[@thesolitudinarian3859]

India - The proud bearer of the richest and the oldest culture of all...Such beauty , it is itself shrouded in the air and the soil of the country .

[@djsmith7648]

I’m black half Indian I love this peaceful song and I love the culture ❤🇮🇳💯

[@gustavomarquez6902]

I am 63 and I have been listening and enjoying Ravi Shankar's music since I was about 13. Eventhough he is now in another energy level he is still very present. He has been "un maestro espiritual" and an emotional guidance in my Life.

[@mk-ue9tx]

Osho loved it ❤

[@Davett53]

2/10/24........Been listening to Ravi Shankar since first hearing him in 1971,....I may have heard him when he performed with John Lennon, and not known it was him. In around 1979, I found a whole cassette recording of his music, and have enjoyed it ever since. I only played it once or twice a year. I like it in the Summer time. I kept buying older technology , so I'd always have a cassette player, for my cool old tapes. I could have found this on a CD, but I never looked for it. You Tube has been a great source for his older recordings.

[@IDIGMUZAK]

Listening to this after splitting from my wife alone in a new country. Im thankful for the momentary peace this is giving me.

[@reubencraig932]

how are you doing now?

[@dustincovert128]

Peaceful society begins with peace of the individual. Peace to you and your home! This album always gives me tears of joy.

[@JF-xq6fr]

Although cold and gray in the NE USA, every time I play this masterpiece, I feel warm sun as if shining over the Ganges...

[@narayansanachitr6545]

Since my Teenagehood in🇱🇦 Laos country, I've been Blessed with the Indian Sitar Musics and at the same early times by Buddhism Wisdom along my ^°°^74່່ years Lifetime​🙏Sadhû 🇱🇦ສາທຸ​ 🇹🇭สาธุ🙏Sadhû 🇱🇦 ສາທຸ​ 🇹🇭สาธุ🙏Sadhû 🇱🇦ສາທຸ​🇹🇭สาธุ

[@fabyp788]

Je suis Française et j'aime infiniment cette belle et poétique 🎶 musique.

[@ashkansh4777]

I am not from India. But i always adore Indian culture. I perplexed with the variety of their beliefs and customs. Yet I respect all and enjoy this wonderful music.

[@markgratiot1494]

I grew up with the Beatles in the 60s and learned to love this kind of music through the influence of George Harrison and his connection with Ravi Shankar.

[@TheSamuiman]

"Nada brahma" - the cosmic manifestation is sound, no one proves this much better while performing then a self-realized master like Ravi Shankar!

[@insekta1701]

Too true. This man was a master and genius musician in his beautiful, traditional art.

[@miovicdina7706]

38, Belgrade, Serbia, started listening at 15 years old, a friend who was 14 played it on a cassette tape player:)) It was his older sister's cassette, his sister was 18, she taught him about Ravi Shankar, as she was interested in the spirituality of India at that time.

[@vinicim436]

I am 32 years old and I always listen to Indian Traditional Music! I love ethnic rythms from around the world!

[@vinicim436]

@ASHWIN VIJAY Yes, I am!

[@daleperrins3476]

Just pure bliss. I have travelled throughout India for many years and it is always moments like listening to the great Ravi Shankar that draw me back time and time again...🕉Om Namah Shivaya 🕉

[@danielweir9253]

Thank you George Harrison for introducing me to the sounds of Indian classical music

[@volnylsonalmeidadecastro2745]

beatifull concert for bangladesh

[@crotalusatrox7931]

So agree....

[@user-fs9nf3yu2b]

@@volnylsonalmeidadecastro2745 .

[@user-fs9nf3yu2b]

Ημουν 16 ετων οταν ακουσα Shankar sitar-tabla & βιολί Είμαι 68 τώρα Μουσική αγγέλων που ηρεμεί τη ψυχή από ένα βιρτουόζο

[@earlrobicheaux2632]

The spirit is in the wind, water, and sky. Blessed are all things.

[@ELICARLO11]

And in dust

[@aymeric4703]

The spirit is god himself

[@ELICARLO11]

@Josh Meza and there is dust in the wind :) so, maybe saying just on the wind is enough

[@theoldleafybeard]

I find this music perfect for meditating, and totally melting with God.

[@la_ki]

I visited a Raja Dinkar Kelkar museum in Pune, it was so special to see all those instruments played in indian music during all those years. You Indians have a very rich musical culture. One interesting point is that here in Serbia we have national minority called Romani people, and very high percentage of them was born with talent for music, I think that they are linked with your country somehow. Greetings from small country in Balkan, called Serbia!

[@coolicon2882]

Romani or rroma people (found here in Romania in high numbers aswell) must be definitely relatives of indian nation. Their language contains lots of words I heard in hindi films. They are definitely very talented in music and dance. 💃

[@user-vi3pi9rf7w]

@@coolicon2882 Romani and domari are Indians who migrated from west Side of india to escape Islamic invaders. Crazy to see them literally everywhere in the world, much like today's indians lol.

[@coolicon2882]

@@user-vi3pi9rf7w Really interesting. I knew that romani came from India but haven't read anywhere about the reason they fled. Thanks for sharing. Really interesting. 👍

[@ChrisOhMy]

Here listening in 2020 and it is March 15th. The coronavirus is settling in the World. Not sure what will happen but I'm thankful for this music and KZbin. ☮❤

[@monicahenriettekr592]

🍕

[@alitablackangell5770]

There's many illnesses and diseases out there. Always has been llike this. We will get thru corona

[@claudiachasman8307]

As we speak (4/18/2020): I am listening (on my HOME COMPUTER;-) to Pandit-ji("*Baba-ji*") Sri Ravi Shankar's (*WHITE*) album, called "*3 Ragas*": (starting with "*Raga Jog*", one of THE MOST BEAUTIFUL pieces I have EVER HEARD.;-))) It is SUPREMELY PEACEFUL, and ENERGIZING, at the SAME TIME. It brings PEACE, and HEALING, to my TIRED, and FATIGUED MIND, Heart, BODY, and SOUL.Every time I hear it, I am "*Washed Away*", in the "*Galactic Ocean*", of "*Satchitdananda*": ("*BLISS CONSCIOUSNESS*";-) Finding it, again, was like COMING HOME, AGAIN.;-))) It is MY "*GO-TO*" Music, whenever I am feeling "*Frizzled, and Frazzled*": Which is MOST of the time, lately:-((( So, Pandit-ji ("*Baba-ji*")Sri Ravi Shankar (may he RIP): Has become MY BEST Friend, lately.;-) ("*SELF*-ISOLATING*", in the SF Valley, California). NAMASTE, and LOVE, Light, and *HEALING*, to EVERYONE.

[@jimmybones8813]

this planet's all about life, even viral life...weird isn't it?

[@dalegribble5661]

💜🙏😘

[@reading411]

people don't get why I love music like this and I can't find the words to describe how it moves my soul.

[@epualc]

i get it!! trust me , i think it goes beyond just the soul!

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

Sri Moonshine It is good to make new friends but that doesn’t mean you have to leave your old ones! Teach your friends to love the things that you love and always appreciate the things that they love.

[@kevingruenofficial]

They have to de-stigmatize their minds first from what the mainstream media tells then is "cool" before they can feel it.

[@hansschetselaar1657]

I have the sane issue, at work I listen sometimes to Beatles sing with Indian influences, some collegues sakes me: How can you listen to this crap I adked them how can you listen to House and Dance music, that is really crap

[@kevingruenofficial]

@@hansschetselaar1657 I'd have to snap someones neck talking about my beatles like that

[@sidnei.]

my molecules my chakras and my soul smile when I hear, my eyes water with longing for a distant past

[@travisholland8555]

Born in 89 and I could listen to this The Rest Of My Life & Will, Love It Man

[@aakashsingh-wz6gr]

Incredible... Anyone in 2019

[@ayoubdkhissi]

heere

[@SaintMatthieuSimard]

2019!!!!

[@A.Steeeve]

These sounds are instant goosebumps 😍 Evergreen!

[@muchethibaut8376]

yes, I do 👍✌💖

[@jamesbush6616]

right here...ahhhhh

[@JudithHostel]

Love Índia. .Hindustan zindabad!

[@larryfulkerson4505]

I'm 71 years old and I've never heard any better music than this. And I've been around.

[@marcelv.d.p.3633]

ravi shankar lived well, loved deeply, lived passionately and fully expressed himself through his music to help others do the same, everybody dies but not everybody lives, rest in peace ravi, my human brother :)

[@hindustaniclassical6809]

Unfortunately not really... He might have lived well but often at the expense of hurting others and being careless... He was one man in public and one very different in private... He did horrible things to many including the closest to him, his first wife, his children... But yes, his a great musician, unfortunately not a great man

[@Hirvi47]

His legacy is continued by his daughter Anushka Shankar. Fantastic!

[@Godschild77786]

Hindustani Classical Maybe that’s how masters become masters All artistic geniuses have their shadows as well

[@aseriesoftriangleswecalltr6065]

This is wrong in two aspects: a) that one explained very well by Hindustani Classical b) many people have not the glimpse of a chance to live their life of the fullest, mainly because the need to survive and feed a family.

[@brentlesheim7084]

There is no death.

[@AlejandraRodriguez-kq6pc]

Today, would be the 100th Ravi Shankar's birthday.

[@celluleor1973]

💎☀️👍

[@DiceDecides]

he died the day I was playing guitar...

[@sarmisthadas401]

Guruji is Always GREAT. Pranam Happy New Year 2023. Sarmistha Das & Aritra Das Kolkata. India.

[@taylorclement5563]

I’m 50 and I’ve loved Ravi since my 20’s…does that count? :)

[@Rudrakshiva]

count for what ?

[@HappyCynic]

@@Rudrakshiva I think this was meant to be a reply to the top comment.

[@bundiganja2711]

I used to play this while falling asleep, but now the ads are spaced perfectly to wake me up every time i start drifting off

[@baixobatista]

adblock

[@andrewn8410]

get ad-blocker my friend. its free. why are you still watching ads?

[@jritesh3736]

how do you block the ads . which adblocker software is good ple tell.

[@stephapoulin1485]

+t12345 ad block plus for google chrome is what I use

[@ChrisAdams93]

Yeah, i've been using ad blocker for years and its never failed me :)

[@Iudicatio]

I have never really felt at home any place I have lived and this music creates intense nostalgia and longing for a home that I have never been to. I hope and pray that I find that place someday.

[@cannabis1490]

Deep words Lynn R...deep!

[@brentlesheim7084]

Wherever thou has placed me Lord, there thou must com.

[@cannabis1490]

@@brentlesheim7084 well said! Thanks! Sometimes we forget that we're never alone!

[@brentlesheim7084]

@@cannabis1490 You're welcome

[@mbangroo]

Its the longing for your own self. Your soul calls you. Just sit , close your eyes and listen to it deeply. You will find the mystical ;)

[@jp-st8vn]

I'm 18 years old and from Bangladesh. But i feel indian from inside. And I'm quite lucky to find the beauty of these beautiful and mystical music. I Love this music and Ravi Shankar so much. One of my dream is to learn playing sitar and play it in dawn in Rishikesh or prayag watching ganga, himalaya and sun rise.

[@user-nx2uu1tf5q]

Постоянно слушаю когда купаюсь, получается и музыкой и водой очищаюсь! When I washing (bathe), I lissten this music. I'm cleaning my body and soul! My english is very bad😁, but I love all of you comrades🤗

[@artifexjoinery9323]

People in the comment section are being nice to each other! Can this be real!?

[@GumpyKidd]

CarlosAdams the atraction law brother!

[@pranavnathyogi]

CarlosAdams Its magic of Shankar.

[@TallerMovil1]

+CarlosAdams : must be a KZbin temporary glitch!! Hopefully, it will spread like a virus does. ABRAZOS

[@anareachi5229]

+CarlosAdams Yes Carlos, more real than anything.....................love is contagious

[@comedyfromafrica]

+CarlosAdams it is possibly because this music radiates peace. That is what is needed in this world I think.

[@crotalusatrox7931]

Ravi...a true man of God. For who could enlighten so many with his music. Ethereal, I'm ascending to another plane magistic, only the enlightened can ascend. George Harrison knew it way back in the day and through him the world became aware of the man who is....Ravi Shankar the Bharat Ratna. God bless all that listen and become!

[@dickdiamonds710]

Lovin Ravi since a baby, literally. Dad would turn this on and i’d sleep, now i do this with my newborn daughter at 23 years old

[@bwanna23]

Traditional Indian music was little known in America until the Summer of Love, 1967.

[@ryanairpilote]

The feeling of India. It's not just the economic land, it's peaceful and more than awesome. The spirit is so mindful of a very bizarre hot day music. People work hard in India just to get food and water resources. People are very nice and this music reminds me of them! I feel like one of them.

[@FRieza207]

This comment made my day

[@vatsaakhil]

makes you feel like sitting on the mother Ganga river bank in early dawn and see it come to life..

[@aurabeatstudio]

Ravi is the name of my 5 years old son . My sun. Indian music have influenced me ALL my life

[@user-cx3pk1vg8g]

A ROCK zenét szeretem , de ha nyugalomra vágyom , elmélkedéshez ezt a zenét hallgatom , egyedül ! Annyira kikapcsol , hogy kizárja a Világot és csak a belső hang hallatszik ! Köszönöm a zenédet Ravi S.!

[@brazilianpsychedelicmusic]

I feel a strong connection with Krishna while listening this album.

[@TeraMangala]

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

[@arshjadon8743]

This while being played in kharaj I feel like we ( me and india) are having a direct rendezvou. She is sharing her ageless timeless and eternal wisdom with a child so affectionately. And in our conversation I'm nurturing my vision for her. With our every breath we feel only BHARAT. Bharat is not just a piece of land where people live. It's a prayer. It is that strongest beautiful emotion which exudes love and beauty out of it and we fill our veins with this love and beauty and sing the song of BHARAT forever.

[@MegaStregaccia]

love is in us, we are love Good night from italy

[@mohiragulcan777]

MegaStregaccia good night from Side

[@swapnajitbanerjee9272]

hope u are okay comrade

[@paolobiasci7780]

Sagge parole fratello

[@thomasc390]

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”- Arundhati Roy

[@jones616]

Amen

[@rayjr62]

There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted stroke will destroy the line or break through the parchment. Erasures or changes are impossible. These artists must practice a particular discipline, that of allowing the idea to express itself in communication with their hands in such a direct way that deliberation cannot interfere. The resulting pictures lack the complex composition and textures of ordinary painting, but it is said that those who see will find something captured that escapes explanation.

[@linneshwharparameswaran6147]

She is one of the most anti India people tho. A paid Islamist playing at being an "activist"

[@tanuj679]

Listening to this masterpiece makes me want to go back to India once again. I absolutely love the playing of sitar from Mr. Shankar and wish I could have experienced it live. It's all so spiritual and calming and gives me a spiritual high. Makes me appreciate nature's beauty. I love the rich culture of my people!

[@jackdi2959]

Ay Waddup

[@TheSamuiman]

Absolutely no difference to live and recorded, only his presence, but one hears music, one doesn't see it through the performer!

[@mikehunt6691]

I'm 26 and listening. Nothing like it, unique and peaceful in its own right. Long live ✌️

[@arjenvandoorne9321]

The spirit of India, a spirit of eternity and it's promise, God's promise and the tree of desire.

[@mjimih]

I want to say something as eloquent as this music. Music is Love. Love is Peace

[@olivierpreziosa1707]

"Without music, life would be a mistake" Friedrich Nietzsche

[@elizabethhickey12]

Amen

[@phongthai27.12]

When everyone's in danger, Every one should remember: Falun Dafa is Good. Truthfulness, compassion and forbearance is Good! Pray for the world!🙏🙏🙏

[@yenravicus]

I'm young and not Indian but I'm loving his Music.

[@samatkambariya6652]

People other than from India? Thank you on behalf of 🇮🇳

[@Londonfogey]

I am British and India is for us a mystical and beautiful place with our special intertwined history.

[@dannywhittingham4849]

forget religious fascism....believe that we are one and the same , which we are...so love each other

[@atriacharya2967]

@@Londonfogey Yeah, we would have been better off had you not stolen 45 trillion dollars from here.

[@Londonfogey]

@@atriacharya2967 It's a bit unnecessary to blame me personally for something that ended nearly 80 years ago, but if it makes you feel better, go ahead. Peace.

[@otorishingen8600]

sitar = soul talking

[@carstarsarstenstesenn]

hansel electric guitar = soul crying Justin Bieber doesn’t even play

[@omrida]

Du

[@neilbodoc8600]

Namaste

[@joanaresende1679]

34 now but like it since always. Greetings from Brasil! 💚💛

[@jamesmasonaltair1062]

The movie Gandhi and Led Zeppelin's Kashmir introduced me to Indian music. I started to listen to both Ravi and Anoushka Shankar and to chanting and Mantras. (Om aim Hreem Kleem...) I began to realize how ancient and wise their culture is. I understand now why the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and so many others went to India to find enlightenment.

[@victoriaredsky3859]

Music is of the Ages. Timeless. Choice is Subjective. Clear your Mind...

[@ryszard3108]

Ravi Shankar - YES! I love his music. He is the most famous sitarist all over the world. And for those who love sitar music: Who knows Nikhil Banerjee? For me even deeper, and one of the best sitarists forever.

[@VithalNadkarni]

SIDDHA & SOUND By Vithal C Nadkarni The Economic Times (Editorial/obituary) Last Updated: Dec 15, 2012, 05:44 AM IST YOUR columnist first saw Pandit Ravi Shankar from the window of a chawl overlooking Grant Road station. The maestro was walking rapidly towards platform one carrying his signature sitar and my father, who was just two years older than the sitarist, pointed him out to me. A few months later, father took me to an impromptu concert held in the apartment below my uncle's flat in Tardeo. He was playing Shri, that most mystical of the ragas much beloved by his Maihar-Senia tradition, which traces its roots back to the legendary singer of Akbar's court, Mian Tansen. I was barely 10, yet I was instantly mesmerised. And I am happy to confess that I have been luxuriating ever since, wallowing really, under the Circe-like spell cast by Ravi Shankar's sitar! Years later, I met the maestro backstage, after I had reviewed some of his performances for The Times of India. So how did he manage to evoke each raga so powerfully, so unerringly, time after time? "I close my eyes and immerse myself in a sort of meditative trance, contemplating constantly on the swarupa and the bhava of each raga as conveyed to me after years of riyaz, or sadhana, by my beloved Guru, Baba Allauddin Khan," he replied without hesitation. This seems more akin to channelling than to mere string-plucking, where the duality of the medium and the message merges to shine forth, radiant and whole, through the messenger. Nada, or Sound, is Brahman in this tradition. Sharangdeva, the Kashmiri polymath at the Devagiri court at Paithan, gave it the other name of chaitanyam or life-force: Divine Nada is the universal soul (vivruttam jagad-atmane), which produces Ananda that first captures and then liberates listeners. A Siddha of that line has become silent. His music lives on. Vithal C Nadkarni (Cosmic Uplink Column) ENDS/ Read more at: economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/vedanta/pandit-ravi-shankar-siddha-and-sound/articleshow/17621035.cms?

[@earfors]

Anyone with a passion about music, has heard.

[@veronikanevmerzhitskaya5703]

Впервые услышала Рави Шанкара лет в 11, у меня был кассетный плеер. Ох как меня штырило от этой музыки, часами гуляла и слушала. До сих пор мурашки по коже от этой музыки.

[@mov1ngforward]

I saw Ravi Shankar on tour in 1974 with George Harrison in Oakland, CA. My group of friends included my sister's best friend, our two dates and a kid that sat in front of me in Social Studies...when I told him I was going, he said he wanted to go too so I said, "buy a ticket," he ended up having to sit across the venue, my date wasn't happy but I didn't care, the more the merrier. My sister's friend, whispered to me that she didn't know who anyone was. We laughed the rest of the night because she didn't know the Beatle.

[@pablomoncayomelgar]

No conozco la cultura indú; pero escuchando a Ravi Shankar pareciera que pudiera imaginarla con una extraña lucidez

[@astolfosobrelaluna.3099]

Porque toca las 108 cuerdas del corazón 🫠

[@mnlwrnr]

The sitar is an awesome magical instrument

[@tomorrowIsTaken]

love listening this...Brazil, hinduist...Hare krishna, haribol

[@abdallahayouchi2665]

هنيئا لك (Ravi ) فزت بقلوب عشاق هذا الفن الراقي بالالحان الساحرة حقا تذهب الكآبة ليحل محلها السرور والاطمئنان

[@omomani]

This is divine

[@GjaP_242]

"The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer." 43:30 Ravi Shankar

[@wayakamejima4771]

Love the Hindustani Classical music.

[@kitjeab]

I like his daugther she plays even better

[@vibrantlotus8154]

My favorite memories as a child was hearing this heavenly music as my father loved/loves Ravi. He would run on the treadmill after work ever single day and after running he would turn this music 🎵 on and I loved how I felt his calmness. I love my Dad moon stars and earth🦋

[@MuradEsenov]

This is mantra. Feel myself as a part of universe.

[@paytkritz4179]

India has the richest culture

[@IcyLittleBlades]

None is richest, if one claims to be then it's certain not to be.

[@KoshVader]

Yeah, you see so many people (not mentioning any names here) trying to make their country great by refusing to take influence from other cultures and their people. Every culture has good and bad, the boundaries aren't always very clear but there are instances where other countries have come up with fantastic ways to save a lot of suffering and they've been ignored because the idea is foreign. I think most people want to make their country great, but some do it through isolation which can only lead to stagnation. Others recognise that greatness comes from variation and their country is just a small part of the world. One culture cannot stand strong if there is are no new ideas and cultures to challenge it.

[@mywebist]

By this you mean it is very diverse in culture and tradition.

[@deathrattle216]

Thanks to outside DNA influence.

[@LionelMessi-ll3xe]

No hate

[@alvinharper3218]

I have been introducing people to North Indian Classical Music (NICM) for the last 50 years. I got my first sitar in 1972. It came from India by ship in a wooden crate that was unloaded at a San Francisco pier. My local library could only find two books in English that were about the sitar. The most important one was, "My Music, My Life" by Ravi Shankar. After a month of looking they located a copy at a library in Los Angeles and borrowed it for me. As a teenager I would hitch-hike over 100 miles to see Pandit-ji in concert, usually every year. When I was 16 I waited in line backstage for hours to pay my respects in person. He took both of my hands in his and, noticing my callouses, he asked if I played sitar. I told him I did. He asked me if I had a guru. I told him I didn't. Even though there were still people waiting to see him, he ushered me into his green room and closed the door. He picked up the sitar he had played that night and said, "At least I can show you the proper playing position." I sat on the floor and he put his sitar in my hands. "No, no, no. You must not hold the neck with your left hand. The front is perpendicular to the floor, and the neck at a 45 degree angle. Yes, that's it. Now, anchor your right thumb here. Like that, yes." I only had 10 minutes with him, but he gave me what he could. As it turns out, that was the only sitar lesson I would ever have. 🙏🕉

[@accrobody256]

Since am 12yo India its a attraction for me started with encen stick smell, at 13yo i open the door india shop buy some bidi and pipe to smoke hashish(We are in the '70s) my hair grow then a wear india shirt (tunique) and 'within you without you 'Beatles song i meet Hara Khrishna group at 15yo. I fly to India Goa and i try Brown sugar LSD trance Goa party. 30 years after am still on methadone and hook ;Both India and Dope ॐ

[@randyrustybuts9566]

A BIG JOINT, INDIAN TEA AND JUST ME FELLING ALL WARM AND FUZZY!!

[@gypsygirl731]

the beatles listened to ravi shankar yrs ago and took a dif path . anyways.. it is meditative and one has to do it to understand this music.

[@robertrobinson5120]

tupac shankar brought me here

[@marthaizaguirre6363]

¡Hola desde Honduras! Si.🙏💖💖💖💖💖

[@wildman9922]

I saw Ravi and Ustad and a woman on Sarod ( I wish I knew her name) in 1970 in a church in Oberlin Ohio USA. I love his spirit first his vibe and next his music. Playing to our soul.....

[@kiranlal5293]

when hearing sitar,sweet pain inside my heart and an electrical flow through my veins😍😍😭😭

[@songofthedesert1]

Spiritual thoughts; peace of mind; tranquility and inner harmony are good things. But lets not forget spiritual action - love and kindness and compassion - giving your last coins to the beggar on the street - or spending a little of our time with an elderly or sick neighbour. These actions give substance and gravity to spriritual thought.

[@hyanreo2]

Giving coins to a beggar...I like it, very B.C.E.

[@SevenFootPelican]

This is prime meditation music. The real deal. It doesn’t get more authentic than this

[@mirekcwil7901]

I discovered RAVI through THE BEATLES