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SINGING THE SONGLINES OF THE DIVINE

Image Source: Yubu Napa Art Gallery. The image above was painted by Denise Johnson, a Warlpiri artist from Ali Curung. Here she paints her traditional Water Dreaming.

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SINGING THE SONGLINES OF THE DIVINE

Recently I attended a weekend workshop which connected the Aboriginal people’s healing techniques with Somatic Experience (SE) body orientated model for healing trauma presented by Peter Levine; Recreating Songlines through trauma trails. It reminded me of how the traditional people’s teachings, deeply resonate with some of practices of Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism. This was the first time a workshop like this had been held here, it was a timely reminder of the challenges we now face as a collective. Important to remember all traditions, all religions, and healing practices once upon a time, evolved from the same river, the same land, the same vibration, and the same song.

This is not the first-time the similarities of this Eastern practice have felt so closely connected to Aboriginal ways which have existed here as a part of this land and culture for over 60,000 years. Diving deeper into these lineages it seems that all paths to awakening have somehow crisscrossed, woven and threaded their way through the fabric of each other’s lands, its peoples, and their hearts. Sharing the same message, yet spoken through different languages, unique rituals and voiced through their own Songlines. Each distinctive expression emerging from a place of deep listening, bridging the finite human with the boundless Infinite.

Songlines to the Aboriginal people are living maps. They are not read, instead they are sung. The landscape reveals itself through sound, through memory carried in vibration. Each verse corresponds to a place, each rhythm to a movement through space. In this way, song becomes orientation. It becomes survival. It becomes relationship, connecting generations across time and space.

For the traditional peoples Songlines reflect a worldview where land, body, and spirit are inseparable. The Earth is not an object to traverse; it is a living presence, the great facilitator to be in relationship with. Singing the land is an act of honouring it, remembering it, and aligning with it. The land responds, guides, and holds.

In Sikhism, sound and song are considered the primary technology for spiritual elevation, internal communication, and connecting the human mind with the Divine. Through singing or chanting the Divine’s praises we become the very vehicle of remembrance of the One. In Kundalini we have inherited some of these sacred mantras, reminding us, guiding us from the body, through sound back to Source. If songlines map the physical world, mantras map the inner spiritual landscape, yet both anchoring the individual to spiritual reality, through the physical body.

There is a striking resonance here with the Physical Body, 5th body of the Ten bodies in Kundalini yoga. The number 5 is the halfway point towards the ten and bridges the lower and higher 4 bodies. If the body is the bridge, then the Earth is the greater body we are part of. This 5th month of May heightens our focus and opens the possibilities to utilise our Physical Body, our 5th chakra, the throat to align our vibration with the Divine’s. The same intelligence that moves through the land moves through us. The same song that maps the terrain externally also maps the inner landscape. Tuning into our Micro self through the body, a stronger relationship and connection is formed to the Macro Cosmic self. This allows us, the human to experience the universal whole, vibrating as one through and beyond the physical form.

There is a difference to a song coming in through your head, rather than feeling it reverberating throughout your body. Wah Yantee is the mantra that has been echoing spontaneously through my cells since the beginning of 2026.

Waah yantee, kar yantee, jag dut patee, aadak it waahaa,

brahmaaday trayshaa guru, it waaheguru

Great Macroself, Creative Self.

All that is creative through time, all that is the Great One.

Three aspects of God: Brahma (Generator), Vishnu (Organizer), Shiva (Deliverer)

That is Waheguru.

Rishi Patanjali a Hindu offered this Sanskrit Mantra over three thousand years ago; it describes the experience of Waaheguru. Patanjali’s beautiful exploration of Waaheguru, creates two mantras in one, bridging the yogic prophecy with the later devotion of the Wahe Guru. It invites willingness to go beyond the inner Micro self and surrender into the reality that is the Greater Cosmic Macro Self of the Universe, through ecstatic energy. Embracing the manifestation of ecstasy in this world connects the devotee to the three aspects of God which defines the ultimate divine ecstasy - Waheguru.

Chanting this mantra we come into alignment with all things once again, and we feel the expansion experience of the Cosmic self, reverberating the capacity within us to live and remain in Love no matter what. This shifts everything. If the Divine is already present, then the path is not about building something new, instead a Remembrance, Simran, attuning, aligning. The method offered is disarmingly simple: sing, listen, and hold love in the mind.

It's a time to sing creations praises and listen to its praises. Let sound become your Guru. Place love into the mind through song. Sing and train your voice in your head to listen to the mantra and what is being sung. Tune into the singing which is going on all around you. Even in complete silence, in nature as the Aboriginal people have shown us, the song is always there. Listen to your own filter, go beyond the mind’s selective choosing, limited interpretation, and ego defences. There is no room for ego now.

Let there only be love in the mind, dissolve into the mind into the language of the divine love. Let the war zone of the fighting ego dissolve and see behind Maya. Radiating love, everyone who comes onto the path will be bathed in that love. Using sound and mantra and song you’ll hear the universe speaking the divine endless infinite love. The universe is always in conditional love. Let love enter you and sing of LOVE.

Tying together Aboriginal songlines and the Sikhs Simran reveals a deep, shared human experience of using sound and rhythm to navigate, remember, and connect to the divine and the environment. It is offering the voice, the breath, the physical body as instruments of remembrance. It is a way of dissolving the illusion of separateness and returning to Unity.

Aboriginal people’s deep connection to the earth through their own body creates deeper understanding and connection to everything they do. Their rituals, hunting, living, eating dance and song, is to honour Mother Earth as the great teacher. Living like this they in turn feel connected to her, there is no separation, and through that Oneness they hear on a much deeper level.

This teaches us that everything is worthy of praise. How you do the praise that’s up to you. Sing the Songlines, chant Simran, praise the water, the air, the rain, the day, the breath and of course the earth. Sing her praises. This life is so amazing and alive. When we sing, you connect the infinite aliveness of the Divine to your own aliveness.

This is the invitation of this month, trust the body as the teacher, the translator, the vessel through from which the unseen becomes experienced. It cannot be installed as it already exists. Utilise this body to go beyond it, sit in Niranjan and go beyond desire. Singing the Songlines of the Divine, goes beyond sound, it becomes a way of being. It teaches that by singing, listening, and maintaining love, all pain is removed, and peace comes to one's home, our inner self, our hearts.

love, light, and surrendering

devpreet