Additionally, Pat is a longtime Northern California performer of acoustic world music styles including Celtic, Irish, Scottish, British Isles, Americana, Old Time. A veteran of numerous SF bay area bands, Pat plays a variety of popular styles such as folk, rock, blues, swing. Appearing regularly at public and private venues he performs at weddings, parties, cafes, dances, festivals.
He serves at Self-Realization Fellowship meditation centers in Mountain View, Redwood City, Los Gatos and Richmond.
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About the name Mejda Mukunda Das:
Mejda Das means devotee of Paramahansa Yogananda.
As a child, Paramahansa Yogananda was called Mejda, a Bengali honorific indicating Second Elder Brother, in the Asian family custom of addressing siblings by cardinal order.
Das in Sanskrit means slave but in general indicates follower-of.
Mukunda is the given birth name of Yogananda which means Liberator of humanity.
Mejdadas is the spiritual name Patrick uses when performing sacred music, with devotion for the great 20th century Bhakta (Master of intense devotion, fully merged in Aum - the Word or Cosmic Sound), and with thankfulness for the Cosmic Chants (English bhajans - spiritualized mystical musical compositions) through which he contacted and communed with Spirit, and offered to the world as a gift from his heart.
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About Paramahansa Yogananda:
Paramahansa Yogananda is a Premavatar (Descent of Divine Love), and first true Indian Jagad Guru (World Spiritual Teacher) to live and work in the West for over 30 years, 1920 to 1952, achieving here ecsatic states of nirvikalpa samadhi - complete absorption and oneness with Infinite Spirit, while maintaining full awareness and activity in the material realm.
Paramahansa is a Hindu religious title meaning Highest Swan. It is bestowed only rarely, upon one who has attained the highest spiritual realization possible in physical form.
Yogananda means Union with Bliss Spirit and is the religious monastic name given by Swami Sri Yukteswar, his great guru at the time of his ordination into the ancient Swami Order in 1915.
Sri Yoganandaji (Sri - revered/holy; ji - respected) founded Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS) in 1916, and Self Realization Fellowship (SRF) in Los Angeles California in 1925, and authored the spiritual classic, Autobiography Of A Yogi, on the bestseller list since first published in 1946 and included in the Top 100 spiritual books of the 20th Century.
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About the Ensemble name Liquid Fire:
The inspiration behind the band name Liquid Fire originates with a scintillating statement by Paramahansaji in his Bhagavad Gita spiritual interpretation from the April 1932 East West Magazine, referring to Kriya Yoga, the inner sword of Pranayama (purifying stream of subtle spinal energy):
The Soul through the Liquid Fire of meditation, has to repeatedly battle with ignorance and body consciousness, in order to wipe out the intoxicating influence of cosmic delusion and sin. - Paramahansa Yogananda
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Love and Blessings,
Mejda Mukunda Das
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LINKS:
http://www.geocities.com/mejdadas/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mejdadas/
http://www.yogafinder.com/yoga.cfm?yoganumber=19854
http://www.geocities.com/mejdadas/bio.html
http://geocities.com/patryanscj/
http://www.soundlift.com/patryanscelticjunket/
http://mojam.wolfgangsvault.com/concerts/search?search=1&key=performer&value=pat%20ryan
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PatRyansCelticJunket/
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