Introducing our beautiful instruments

The authentic Indian Shruti Box arrived by post to me during the pandemic. It took it about 3 month to reach us. Of course now I know that you can buy such instruments in Southall, West London, but then London was as unreachable as India itself. The box arrived and I was in love with it. The deep reverberating sound is rich in overtones and creates a distinct feeling of space. My gongs love it. They reverb with it and complement it in most beautiful way. Bija means “seed”. “Mantra, in the literal Sanskrit translation, means “through the mind”… It reminds us that it is not possible to quiet the mind without extreme focus. Through chanting mantras…a person is able to stop the mind from leaping in many different directions at once and begin to find a profound inner stillness,” says Kulreet Chandhary in her book “Sound Medicine.”

In the same book the author quotes her spiritual teacher Amma: “ Since mantra is a seed.., when you sow the seed mantras in your heart, it grows a tree with the divine.” The Sanskrit scale seems an unlikely healing instrument, but if we remember that centuries later our Do Re Mi also came from a Latin prayer we will begin to join the dots