Om Shanti Meditation
Ragas on Dilruba

by Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish

Track Listings:

1. Raga Tilang Alaap (30:00)
2. Raga Kathinya Alaap (30:00)

All music composed and performed by S.D. Batish (ASCAP).

Album Description

This music evokes the Shanta Rasa–an aura of peace and tranquility, a state of being essential to meditation.

Dilruba, the instrument being played by Panditji, has 30 sympathetic strings. Each string is especially tuned to the proper shruti and is in perfect harmony. As the lead string is bowed to the notes of the raga, these sympathetic strings reverberate automatically producing a deep, lush, and dreamy sound . This instrument is one of the most popular stringed instruments of the bowed variety in Northern India. Its fretted finger board resembles that of a Sitar and its belly, upon which the main bridge rests, is covered with goat skin like on a Sarangi.

The Om Shanti Series was initiated by Ashwin Batish and his father Pandit Shiv Dayal Batish when approached by many people looking for pure tonal music to meditate, relax, or to do daily yoga practice to. The music is un-metered, very slow, fluid, and extremely relaxing. Each note of the raga (modal scale) is fine tuned to enhance its natural soothing qualities.

Two Tanpuras add soothing drone in the background.