• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Yogananda Harmony

Yogananda Harmony

  • Home
     
  • Yogananda
    & Disciples
  • Yogananda
     History!
  • Daily Practices
    With Yogananda
  • Kriya
    Yoga
  • Autobiography
    of a Yogi
  • COSMIC
    CHANTS
  • Swami
    Kriyananda
  • Friendship
    Letters
  • Inspiration
    for You
  • Blogs
    of LIGHT
  • Photo-
    Quotes
  • Donation
    Contact

After the Master’s Passing: the Third and Fourth Enlarged Editions of the Cosmic Chants

 After Yogananda left the body, a “revised and enlarged” third edition was printed in 1953. Some new Cosmic Chants appeared. By the way, its cost was only 1$.

Recordings

After Yogananda’s own recording entitled Songs of My Heart, SRF published in 1960 its own first recording of the Cosmic Chants entitled “Music For Meditation” and sung by Brother Kriyananda. In 1970 the SRF monks recorded a new album, “When Thy Song Flows Through Me.”

Later many other recordings were published, including chanting of the Cosmic Chants and also instrumental music.

How the standard notation was born

In time, the disciples worked on a new expanded fourth edition of the Cosmic Chants, which appeared in 1963. A special committee of close disciples was formed for that publication. Each disciple played the chants as he or she remembered them. They were compared and one official version was selected. The final decision was made by Daya Mata, Mrinalini Mata, and Ananda Mata (Mataji).

You may read the story here:  The Notation of Cosmic Chants. It is written by Dan Hart, an SRF monastic from 1955-1970, who was the musician notating and playing each of the selected versions of the Cosmic Chants.

This new edition of the Cosmic Chants book eliminated some chants previously published, and added many others, presenting altogether 60 Cosmic Chants. Below is the list.

Eliminated Cosmic Chants

  • Divine Love Sorrows
  • Sitting in the Silence
  • My Soul is Marching on
  • Om Brahma
  • God of Beauty

The contents of the new Cosmic Chants book (in alphabetical order).

The added chants are in bold. The chants from the original 1938 Cosmic Chants book are in red.

  1. At Thy Feet
  2. Blue Lotus Feet
  3. Cloud-Colored Christ
  4. Come, Listen to My Soul Song (earlier called “Listen to my Soul Call”)
  5. Dawn Chant
  6. Deliver Us From Delusion
  7. Desire, My Great Enemy
  8. Divine Gypsy
  9. Divine Mother’s Song to the Devotee
  10. Do Not Dry the Ocean of My Love
  11. Door of My Heart
  12. Ever New Joy
  13. From This Sleep, Lord
  14. Hay Hari Sundara (Hindi “O God Beautiful”)
  15. He Who Knows
  16. Hymn to Brahma
  17. I Am the Bubble, Make Me the Sea
  18. I Am Om
  19. I Am the Sky
  20. I Give You My Soul Call
  21. In Samadhi
  22. In the Land Beyond My Dreams
  23. In the Temple of Silence
  24. In the Valley of Sorrow
  25. Invocation to the Gurus
  26. I Will Be Thine Always
  27. I Will Sing Thy Name
  28. Jai Guru
  29. Learn Thou Self-Control                                 
  30. Light the Lamp of Thy Love
  31. Listen, Listen, Listen
  32. My Krishna Is Blue
  33. No Birth, No Death
  34. God Beautiful
  35. Om Chant
  36. Om Kali
  37. Om Song
  38. Opal Flame                  
  39. Thou Blue Sky
  40. Thou King of the Infinite
  41. Polestar of My Life
  42. Receive Me on Thy Lap, O Mother
  43. Rose Chant
  44. Search Him Out in Secret
  45. Shanti Mondire (Bengali “In the Temple of Silence”)
  46. Spirit and Nature
  47. Swami Ram Tirtha’s Song
  48. They Have Heard Thy Name
  49. Thou Art My Life
  50. Thousands of Suns
  51. Today My Mind Has Dived
  52. Wake, Yet Wake, O My Saint
  53. What Lightning Flash
  54. When My Dream’s Dream Is Done
  55. When Thy Song Flows Through Me                
  56. Where Is There Love?
  57. Who Is in My Temple?
  58. Why, O Mind, Wanderest Thou?
  59. Will That Day Come to Me, Mother?
  60. Wink Has Not Touched My Eyes

Vocal range

Some of the Cosmic Chants have quite a big range from low to high notes, which can make them challenging to sing. If you are just beginning to explore chanting them and prefer to choose those which have a smaller (easier) range, here you have an overview: vocal ranges in Cosmic Chants.

Primary Sidebar

Daily Yogananda Quotes
on Friendship

It is God who comes to you in the guise of a noble, true Friend, to serve, inspire, and guide you.
~Yogananda~

Free Inspirational Downloads

Yogananda and Disciples

  • Paramhansa Yogananda
  • Rajarshi Janakananda
  • Sister Gyanamata
  • Daya Mata
  • Swami Kriyananda
  • Durga Mata
  • Dr. Lewis
  • Tara Mata
  • Richard Wright
  • Warren P. Vickerman

Sri Yukteswar

  • The Holy Science, Original

Interesting History

  • Original History of the AY
  • Yogananda History

Devotion

  • Yogananda Poem

Durga Mata

  • Master's Eyes

By Yogananda

  • Early Bhagavad Gita commentaries
  • Early Bible commentaries
  • What Is Samadhi?
  • What Is God?
  • The Guru
  • Steps to Ecstasy and Back
  • Sex-Force Transmutation
  • Sacred Symbols
  • Nervous System
  • Loyalty
  • Light in 3 Windows
  • Life is a Dream
  • Kundalini
  • Kriya Yoga
  • Intuition
  • Inner Light
  • Holy Chakras
  • Healing the Sick World
  • Healing the Body
  • God First
  • Freedom
  • Bliss Meditations
  • A Prayer for Each Moment
  • 31 Friendship Meditations
  • 10 Light Meditations
  • 7 Instruments For Love

  • Home
     
  • Yogananda
    & Disciples
  • Yogananda
     History!
  • Daily Practices
    With Yogananda
  • Kriya
    Yoga
  • Autobiography
    of a Yogi
  • COSMIC
    CHANTS
  • Swami
    Kriyananda
  • Friendship
    Letters
  • Inspiration
    for You
  • Blogs
    of LIGHT
  • Photo-
    Quotes
  • Donation
    Contact