The Darbari Kanada raga, which inspired the composition of this chant, is a melodic pattern brought into Hindustani classical music by the sixteenth-century composer Tansen at the request of storied Emperor Akbar, who wanted a raga that could be sung at night. In November of the following year, in Gurudev Siddha Peeth, Gurumayi chanted this namasankirtana during the first Global Siddha Yoga Shaktipat Intensive via satellite broadcast in which she imparted shaktipat diksha to thousands of students and seekers in fifty-five cities around the world. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, the Siddha Yoga Guru, composed the words and music of Jaya Jaya Shiva Shambho on the occasion of Mahashivaratri, “the great night of Lord Shiva,” in 1988. The image that arises in my heart is that of Shiva Nataraj-the dancing Shiva, the one who dispels the illusions of the mind and the duality of creation. Because the musical scale of this chant goes up and down in serpentine and spiraling intervals, I experience a blissful freedom of movement that is my idea of the state of Lord Shiva. This sensation becomes so ecstatic that I simply must celebrate God’s presence through the power of sound.
When this namasankirtana begins, I feel as though the Lord himself is dancing on my fingertips along the harmonium keys, and I soon forget I am playing. As a Siddha Yoga musician, anytime I am playing harmonium for Jaya Jaya Shiva Shambho, I experience pure joy and reverence for God’s boundless nature.
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