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Namah Musical Notes and Emotions

with particular attention to the period in which
menstruation would normally have occurred.
Within two months of continuous practice,
menstruation reappeared regularly, restoring
the woman to full physical and emotional
efficiency.

Case Study No. 2

In this second case, referring to a 40-year-old
man (Carlo M.), suffering from constipation,
the chanting of the Mayamalawagaula scale Fig. 9 a): Mayamalawagaula scale in Melakartaa
a
(n. 15 Melakarta) was applied after the usual System and
initial practice of the AUM Mantra. This
heptatonic scale is one of the four fundamental
scales in Nāda Yoga, together with the n.22
Karaharapriya, the n.29 Dirassankarabaranam
a
n
and the 65 Mlechakaliyani. Mayamalawagaula is
also the reference scale in the Carnatic musical
practice of south India (in the northern
Hindustani system it is based instead on the
Kalyan That (Mlechakaliyanni).
a
In the Nāda Yoga discipline, this scale is used
for various purposes, the first of which is to act
on attention, concentration, memorisation and b) in Nāda Yoga simplification
coordination of the cerebral hemispheres, in C D♭ E F G A♭ B C
practice on what we can define as ‘operational
intelligence’. In schools in South India, students SA RE GA MA PA DHA NI SA
are made to sing at the beginning of lessons, ½ 1½ ½ 1 ½ 1½ ½
in order to awaken their attention and prepare
them for learning. Fig. 10: Mayamalawagaula with English notation
and tone intervals

It is a particular scale that has two important
structural characteristics. It is coherent, that is, it
has the same intervals in both the ascending and
descending phases, and then it is symmetrical:
the intervals of the first section (Sa-Ma) are
a
a
the same as those of the second (Paa-Saa). In
Fig. 8: Western Musical notation of Maya- addition, it contains two long intervals of
malawagaula scale one and a half steps (R - G and D - N). These

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