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Universal Greeting

from The Pearl Within by Lea Garnier

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The Universal Greeting is a Shruti song. Shruti songs are words we put to voice. They can be certain stories you will always remember, affirmations and poems, accompanied by a Shruti box. The Shruti is a scaled down version of the Indian harmonium which is commonly used in kirtan chanting.

The Shruti box emulates the pentatonic scale of the piano, with the black keys on top, and white ones on the bottom. It cuts off the end tones, so you just get the mid-tones. This allows our voice to interweave and merge above and below the overtones, giving freedom of expression to the voice, and liberation to the throat chakra.

Given to Gong master Don Conreaux at the UN in the 1960's by three mysterious men, The Universal Greeting is a standard in the Gong community and performed at every Gong Bath to inspire a creed to live by. Hand mudras are also used to aid in its expression, with the understanding that movement is the ultimate universal language and so if one encounters a being who does not speak your given language, they would respond to your smile, hand and arm gestures.

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I offer you Peace

I offer you Friendship

I offer you Love

I hear your Needs

I see your Beauty

I feel your Feelings

All wisdom Flows

From the Highest Source

I honor that source in You

Let us work Together

You are my own true Self

And, I am another Yourself

Namaste Namaste

We are One

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from The Pearl Within, released April 20, 2017
Lea Garnier - voice, shruti box, chapaca, gong, himalayan bowls, and feathers.

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