It was my first time being a part of the Ananda choir. In March 2013, we had a couple of celebratory occasions with Swami Kriyananda at his dwelling outdoors Pune. He was scheduled to go away for Assisi after these packages so many individuals had gathered from all all over the world to be in his presence.

I had been listening and tuning into his music for about 3 months, which suggests I had simply began to turn out to be conversant in his songs. The plan was to have a particular Live performance sharing Swamiji’s music on March 9. The choir director was very inclusive and generously let me take part, despite the fact that I had by no means been a part of a choir earlier than.

We had many different neighborhood members visiting from different Ananda facilities worldwide, so the choir was very robust. I used to be attempting to really feel my place on this fully new expertise and to know what was actually occurring there, and why I felt so good simply being there and singing these songs!

On the night of the live performance, the choir was in place and everybody had gathered on the lovely amphitheater on that heat summer season night. The stage was set with everybody anxiously ready, after which Swamiji walked out from his dwelling to affix us within the viewers.

I didn’t know the place to start tuning in; it was all so new, but so blessed and overwhelming in some methods. So, I made a decision to only calm down into this expertise and put all the pieces into the singing of those lovely songs! However at the back of thoughts, one thing instructed me to concentrate, and to seize this treasured expertise and never simply take it as a right.

It was an odd second when about half manner into the live performance, I out of the blue realized I used to be feeling so mild! It was as if we have been all floating three ft above the bottom; each burden, each heaviness of thoughts and ego, appeared simply to drift away and we have been all uplifted (actually, it appeared).

In that second I felt fully at peace and mentioned to myself: “Keep in mind this second! That is Swamiji. That is the ability of his music to remodel us and to elevate us up excessive above our mundane points and worries of the thoughts. That is how I can study to be extra in my coronary heart, by singing and listening to his music!”

The live performance ended with him singing a track devoted to Narayani (his private assistant) for her birthday. He had some hassle together with his listening to presently and so he couldn’t even hear the notes he was singing, but he sang the track.

It appeared like he simply needed to share his bliss with all of us, to incorporate us in his internal mild and provides us an opportunity to really feel a contact of that. And what a candy expertise it was for all of us!

That amphitheater and residential was a spot of nice blessing for thus many individuals, every of whom have a unique story to inform. We have been in a rural setting, and despite the fact that the lighting we had that night was not so robust, the entire place was shining due to his glowing presence there! That land appeared to be blessed endlessly!