![]() ![]() ![]() I began my own journey in 2005, when in the midst of a personal crisis, my parents turned me toward the LOTUS and enlisted the guidance of family friend, Rev. “My parents were members of the Light Of Yoga Society and then the Siddha Foundation, so I’m no stranger to the yogic lifestyle. ![]() She now lives in California where she is a photographer and has a web design company. Her beautiful artwork adorns the cover and the insert for this CD. Shraddha lived at Satchidananda Ashram–Yogaville where she served as a karma yogi. My gratitude to Gurudev is so huge that sometimes it just seems to break free and a new song is born.” “Thou Art” is a new song, an expression of my deepening practice, and of devotion to Gurudev. It was also the first time I had the sense that I could get under the wing of the Beloved. I was reading The Living Gita for the first time. I wrote “Lead Me” in the dead of winter, during a time of illness and loss. “Oh Gurudev” came from a time when I was beginning to understand just how much baggage I was bringing to him. “He Isn’t Gone” and “Hari OM” were written in the joy of first contact with Gurudev, and also as a way to deal with the understanding that I had found him three years after he’d left his body. “Song is something that I use to open a door between my small self and the Divine. Sudasi is an Integral Yoga teacher and she directs the Integral Yoga Centre in Bath, England. I was able to offer this song to him at that time.” I was fortunate to be part of the Integral Yoga retreat in England held in July 2002 that Sri Gurudev blessed with his presence just prior to his Mahasamadhi in India. The song is not mine anymore it is for everybody to I wrote it for Gurudev and am so happy for it to be shared in this way. Ganga Gaia and her husband composer/keyboardist, Ed Tossing, began to write and perform inspirational music in the 1980s under the name of Heartsong, releasing an album entitled “White Light.” They live in Nashville, Tennessee where they continue with their music careers. We offer this updated version in honor of our dear teacher and guide whose presence we see, feel and know is with us all always. Since Gurudev’s transition, this song has taken on a new meaning for us. One of my husband Ed’s original songs on our “White Light” album, “I Know You Are There,” alluded to the God’s presence that can be seen everywhere, in everyone. Touched by his loving enfolding presence, his humility, and his message of unity and peace, I experienced a re-awakening to my higher Self and spiritual purpose of serving and healing others. “I met Gurudev for the first time at singer Laura Nyro’s house in Connecticut in the early 1970s. She operates a retail business in nearby Gibraltar. She lives in Spain with her husband and she has four beautiful children. Rasmi’s song “The Sun Sets” was written as a tribute after Sri Gurudev’s Mahasamadhi. I am most at home when I allow him to flow through me…” It was all music to my ears that’s why I hear so much music in my head I suppose! Most of the music comes like a bolt out of the blue, with lyrics, harmonies and the works! It is so exciting when, having heard it all in my head, I hear the finished piece played back to me on CD! When I first met Gurudev in Gibraltar, it was like I had known him forever. “Sri Gurudev’s teachings, books, his simple and loving language is what really got to me first. He currently serve as director of the University’s Thompson Conference Center. Vivekan has a Master’s degree in music performance and has been employed at the University of Texas for over 20 years. This album was a set of spiritual songs inspired by Sri Gurudev’s teachings and two poems of Swami Vivekananda, which Sri Gurudev asked me to set to music in the mid-70s.” The two songs included on this CD are part of “Song of the Free,” an album that was released by Yogaville in 1977 (and was re-released as a CD). ![]() Those seven years transformed my life completely. I cherish my time spent in the IYIs and Ashram. I became a whole-time member soon after and for seven years served at the IYIs in Dallas, New York and Santa Cruz and then at Yogaville in Connecticut. “In the early 1970s, Dean Ornish and I received mantra initiation from Sri Gurudev at Dr. Gurudev Pray for Me: Rasmi RoseAnne Garcia.Guru Guru Gurudeva: Rasmi RoseAnne Garcia.I Know You Are There Gurudev: Ganga Gaia Tossing.Om Namo Bhagavate Satchidananda: Rasmi RoseAnne Garcia. ![]()
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