Ragas for Meditation
23 ragas in the tradition are associated with meditation. Which one suits you depends on the hour you are listening and on your own chart, so the times below matter as much as the names.
A modern therapeutic designation rather than a classical raga name — retained from the v1 dataset for continuity; verify before public display.
Spare pre-dawn raga of the renunciate; strongly associated with dhyana.
Early dawn raga; traditionally used for the first sitting of the day.
Introspective night scale.
Sung to wake the deity at brahma-muhurta. Traditionally the raga of gentle awakening.
Spare dawn pentatonic; traditionally for the first light.
Malkauns with shuddha Ni; luminous and still.
Sparse night raga associated with the Nath yogis.
Pentatonic Todi variant without Pa; rarefied and inward.
Late-evening raga of rarefied beauty and yearning.
A deep pentatonic of the small hours. Traditionally used for dhyana, and to quiet an overactive mind.
Poignant and inward. Traditionally used for night-time contemplation and devotional longing.
Night raga, harmonically close to the western minor; introspective.
The classic raga of the small hours; traditionally profound, stilling and used for dhyana.
Sunset raga without Pa; traditionally the mood of dissolution and letting go.
Shares Marwa's notes with a wholly different centre of gravity; inward and grave.
Sunset raga of dissolution; the kriti for Rahu is set in this raga.
Winding and contemplative; traditionally used for deep bhakthi and inwardness.
Spare and luminous; traditionally used at brahma-muhurta and associated with Ketu.
The raga of Shanmukha (Kartikeya). Traditionally used for protection, focus and fearlessness.
Intense and lion-like. Traditionally invoked for inner strength and resolve.
A pentatonic of tender sorrow. Traditionally used to let grief surface and settle.
Austere and otherworldly; traditionally associated with vairagya and with Ketu.
Two people cannot use the same raga for the same problem
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