Summer of Peace 2013 World Peace - One Mantra at a Time with Deva Premal & Miten (Jul. 21)

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1 Summer of Peace 2013 World Peace - One Mantra at a Time with Deva Premal & Miten (Jul. 21) [0:00:00] Welcome to the Summer of Peace Summit, a production of The Shift Network. I m Myra Jackson. Good morning everyone and good afternoon wherever you maybe. We are so delighted that you are joining us. You know, here we are, we ve got our theories underway and today we have an exciting set of guests with us. I d like to introduce today Deva Premal and Miten and I want to -- Hi there, Myra. Hi. I m just so glad. How are you? It takes such an effort sometimes and you re all the way, we re across the shores and yet with technology we can come together. Yes. And it s so lovely. So the theme of today s show World Peace One Mantra at a Time. For those listeners who are familiar with the work of Deva and Miten, I want to give a little background of their journey and then get into their story for a bit of time. Deva Premal and Miten began their journey into love and music in 1990 when they met at the ashram of the Indian Mystic Osho. Their worldwide concerts and best-selling albums have since introduced millions of yous and mes and westerners to the joy and deep relaxation found in spiritually based songs and chanting mantras from the Eastern meditation traditions. I remember this wonderful album of Deva s The Essence and truly it set my life on a whole another level with mantra and it looks like the world received her song as well as it really rocketed up in all the charts around the world in 1998 during its release. So it really set out this beautiful unique musical genre just check that out listeners, to set off a genre of your own. This way of offering ancient mantras of India and Tibet and bringing it into contemporary musical settings is the gift, is their unique contribution. So we have Deva and Miten with us today. 1

2 I ve just finished their 21-day meditation journey and so we find it so perfect that they re with us during the time in which in this series we are building the field. We re adding to the energy of peace collectively as a group building towards this moment of September 21 st the International Day of Peace where we can take our practice from various traditions and bring it into this unity. No better perfect, you know, it couldn t be more perfect to have you, Deva with us and Miten, to help us add to the field. So tell us where you are right now. I think you are in a beautiful setting and I think that will help listeners tune into you and to get a feel for where you are speaking to us from today. [0:05:07] It s 7:00 p.m. We re in Greece, in Corfu Greece. It s just one island and we ve been coming here for the last 17 years every summer and we offer programs here for people to come and sing and chant and have a beautiful holiday at the same time. So just the relaxation comes from the outside in and from the inside out in this time. It s precious for is to be here. You know, we spend most of our time on the road, Myra, and to be here for eight weeks is about the only time in the year when we unpack our suitcases. So we re having a really sweet time here right now. We re very happy to be contributing to your program so we feel very honored that you ve invited us to be part of it. We ve been such a pair of gypsies for the last 22 years. We ve only lived six months in one place in 22 years now together. That s extraordinary really that we do have you with us. That we re able to catch up with you at such a time -- [0:04:46] [Indiscernible] --when you re taking a bit of respite. [Laughs] It s just wild. I mean I know and I know that there are listeners out there they re like me, when we get a chance to you have you in concert nearby, we have to get the tickets way early and so we see, we see your schedule way out there and -- 2

3 -again we appreciate the time we have with you today and I don t want to waste a moment. I mentioned starting this that the 21-day mantra meditation journey really it had an impact. We talked about it a lot as we were going through the 21-day my friends and I. Afterwards because you re on the show, I m [0:05:32] [Indiscernible] to think why was it so powerful. For me, it was not only my coming to the listening experience online and hearing you set up each mantra and bring images that very much supported the mantra but also the fact that we could, I could really feel that others were participating in the experience and that I could also journal. So I was having my experience yes, but I could feel the connection to everyone else and not only do I hope that you will do something similar again but I really am curious how you came to bring this 21-day journey into being as a practice for us all. Well you know, I think we should start at the beginning. The beginning is that Deva was born to the sound of mantras. You know, that s really where it all began and our journey has taken us, it s almost like there are certain doorways that open in a journey that s lasted for 20 years and this was one doorway that opened where we saw, we just wanted to share what we had experienced with the mantras. It s beautiful when you say you felt connected to the people that were also on the same journey. I always feel also the connection that we enter into when we chant the mantras to all the millions of souls down the ages that have been chanting these mantras. So we tune into this river of devotion and [0:07:16] [Indiscernible] practice, you know, when we tune into these sacred sounds. I think connection is really one of the main remedies in this day and age. It s love. You know, when we feel connected, we feel loved and we feel seen and we feel important is maybe the wrong word but we feel like we contribute to the greater good and the whole and that s such a nourishing feel. To be able to offer this mantra journey also free so that everyone could join and we are doing it the same way and the same groove, that was very precious for us. We were approached by Mentors Channel that have facilitated other meditation challenges also for Deepak Chopra and Oprah and different people and we were happy that somebody came who had the infrastructure to make this happen. Because obviously that s quite a thing that needs to be quite a setup. So yeah, it all came together and -- It was a challenge. Yes. 3

4 It was a challenge but it was a good challenge. Because we don t merely see ourselves as teachers. You know, we re musicians and somehow we feel ourselves actually as messengers. We had this way to share the mantras but when it came down to actually talking about them, it challenged us and it was a great challenge and then we re very grateful actually that Mentors Channel asked us to do it. I think there was something like 68,000 registrations. We felt like yeah, mantras are more than just superstitious sounds. You know, they are actually rooted in scientific exploration and that s where the key is. We see ourselves as messengers of a very ancient tradition. You know, we feel like we re flame carriers in some way because we all know the power of sound. We know the difference between the emotional response to a baby laughing or a police car siren. You know, our bodies respond to different sounds and what mantras are they are refined moments of sound that actually create responses in let s call it the mind-body organism, you know. [0:10:25] So once we started to discover this and that s when we knew we had to share it. Because we were getting messages from all kinds of people from so many different walks of life like Iraqi vet wrote to us and a 9/11 firefighter and teacher of autistic kids how the kids respond to these sounds and how they actually connect in a certain way. There s that word connection again, you know. So that s how it came about. It was very simple choice. Yes, we will try and teach, we will try and teach this. What you year is the result of that and so it s great. It s a beautiful journey. Truly and you know I have this image as soon as you said we feel as if we re flame carriers. This is what we re hoping to ignite through the series is this way of being able to tap into this great connection, this ongoing stream of peace that s always present. Yeah, yeah. Here we were in this 21-day journey just to go back to it because it was such a practice and this series is about what can you bring into your life that keeps this current that s very, very present alive so that you can 4

5 bring it into your day. There you said it. You know, we know the difference, our bodies know the difference. Yeah, yeah. That, you know, when these babies cry and the siren. Well just how much of the five alarm fire do we have in our lives every day. Yes. And how can we introduce these healing sounds, yes? Yes. Sorry, Deva. Stephen sent a link today again, you know, the response of water to sound. It was just an incredible evidence again you know that even on a scientific level that you can actually see with your own eyes to see how the water s surface changes when sounds apply to water. Obviously, we are I don t know maybe 75% water in our bodies. So especially when we repeat the mantra, we alter the structure of water content like on a very physical level. That also has begun to see, you know, it s very practical. You know, it s very down to earth and then obviously then there is the experience that we have that s undeniable when you chant how you feel afterwards you know. We can t describe it. It s beyond words and that s exactly why we re doing it because we want to get beyond the words. So it feels like we use the mind energy that s so strong and it has such a grip on us almost all day. You know, it always tells us stuff. It usually mostly tells us the same thing over and over again. But here we use the mantra to channel that into a good groove. You know, we focus that mind energy on beneficial sounds and then we can let go completely of the words and the sounds and enter the silence. For me the silence is like the real pinnacle of the mantra you know. [0:13:33] [Indiscernible] on when the vibration remains but the words are gone, the sounds are gone and only this very vibrant silence, which we like to call it ecstatic silence remain. Well you know, in Sanskrit they described that space as shanti, om shanti om, it s a space of inner peace, om shanti. That s the description. That s the word that describes what happens when you move into a mantra and then let it disappear into silence and what you re left with is this feeling of inner peace, om shanti. 5

6 Yes and that -- [0:15:00] And I would just add one more thing. Yes. We actually decided to relaunch the meditation mantra journey in September in celebration of our US tour and so on the 10 th of September there s going to be another chance to do the whole journey again for no charge. So if anyone is interested it s going to be a [0:14:34] [Indiscernible] again at that point. Well, you know, there you go. There goes the answers listeners, September 10 th we can do it again, embark on this journey and it looks like it will weave right into what we re doing with the series that culminates September 21 st. So we can keep riding into that stream. It s so well timed and so this ecstatic silence and the vibrations that you re left with, it was very much during the journey as a practice. One of the things that I made note of is that what s really switched for me in practice is to continue to be embodied and to bring that experience into my life instead of escaping through the sound. So there were times in which you had us moving also and that helped. Yeah, yeah. You know? It s a very important part of it and I really noticed how much more capable I was of really keeping that ecstatic silence but with the mantra behind kind of as a subtext that carried me into my day. You know, some I know we re doing it at night. I was doing it at both ends of the day. I really dove into it and I was looking at the quality of how much it I could carry into not only my dreamtime but into my day. So I took a challenge to go deeper. [Laughs] And you ve found that the mantras would accompany you during your day? Yes. Yes. You know, that you could easily tap. You could hear it. Just as when you spoke om, shanti, om and you were explaining that, you know, I can hear the chant. 6

7 Yes, yes. The moment those words were launched in a new way. You know, you can also silently chant. This is another aspect of the whole mysterious world of mantras. What I do at nights if I m awake at nights, I can actually chant my mantra to myself no sound and the same thing happened, the same feeling of inner space energy relaxing and moving through the body in a very slow wave. Especially the mantra om, the sound om itself is so potent. If nothing else, if your listeners gave themselves three times, three rounds of the mantra om every day before they begin their work or every night before they would go to sleep, I guarantee there will be a subtle change in their lives, in their energy. It s that strong. I m only speaking from experience now. Uh-hum. There s so much to explore here and you mentioned as well the science behind the sound. There s nothing more enlivening I feel than when I take the combination of this science of sound into the natural world. It s another level of experience when we take it in the nature. I wonder you know, you mentioned water, if you have, how much have you taken mantra in this work into the natural world? Oh well, we ve taken it into prisons. That s pretty natural. That s pretty weird actually. Can you imagine playing the mantras and chanting with people who are incarcerated and seeing tears and hearing seeing together? Even then a whole room full of men with tears and chanting, it s the most incredible experience. Yes, anyway nature itself -- I mean for me nature, it s a mantra in itself. You know, usually it just makes me shut up inside and outside when I m in nature you know. [Laughter] So [Laughter] Of course, we know that sacred sites are another place where we often associate the mantras as well. So place, the space that s created inside of you. Prisons, I mean there s nowhere of course it cannot go. 7

8 [0:20:13] I mean that s what the mantra does. It creates a sacred site within you. It makes you powerful you know? That s what we need because we need something that s not somewhere else. You know we need something that s right here available to us anytime of the day or night. Even we need something often that we can integrate into our daily flow without even stopping our daily flow, you know, and I feel that s totally okay to use the mantra while you re doing something else because it makes the action sacred rather than the mantra nonsacred, you know. So like while driving, you know, there s so much time that we have while driving that we can use in a beneficial way or while we are dishwashing, which I guess nobody does anymore. But cleaning whatever, you know, I mean the mantra can always infuse every action that we do, most actions let s say and it can focus us and it can remind us that every action can be that of worship and of meditation. It s no more separate. Yeah, there s even a mantra for sacred lovemaking from the Kama sutra that you would chant before making love with your partner. It pretty much covers just about every base. Well yes, it s so we just need more of all of that. [Laughs] We can elevate, you know, find that sacred that s present in all life and connect to that. We move towards peace. Yes. You know, so this is our opportunity and here we have the mantra to help us create those spaces within ourselves and help the mind to recognize the sacred that s infused in all life. That s what interests me and here again we have this opportunity to dive in to this relationship with mantra sound and that the way it empowers us really to have a way of changing the state of affairs around us. I feel this is our opportunity as well is recognizing each and every one of us can change the state, of course our inner state in a way that it as an impact on the external. Mantra gives us a -- Absolutely. 8

9 --that opportunity I feel. You know, the whole science of HeartMath where the heart frequency gets harmonized and it actually radiates like eight feet beyond your physical body things like that. So that it s again another way of scientifically proving that what we do is not confined to us individually. It always radiates and it always benefits. You know, it s like the fragrance of a flower that goes further than the little flower itself. And this trusting that and nourishing that and realizing that when we give energy into that that, it really does work and does happen in our world responds differently to us when we send out good vibrations. It s just a matter of remembering and I think that s why we need events like the one we are doing right now with you or that s why we need each other is to remind us that not to forget. That s the only problem is that we forget because we have all the tools and we have all the we love doing it. You know, it s not even a kind of a sacrifice. But it s just we get so sucked away in the daily flow. So sometimes I say you allow just set your alarm clock every hour or so just something that wakes you up and reminds you remember. [0:25:13] And then you silently chant your mantra om and then you continue with your day. Well I have to share with you and I wanted to wait to let you know and I bet there are other listeners out there who ve had this experience but it s to be remembered that when my mother was quite ill and not responsive, the first thing I did was I put one of your chant CDs on her ears so that she could hear that. You know, I don t know listeners, can you just imagine, you know, you re in, you re listening to the sound and you re listening, listening and there s just some times when you just rise up on your feet because you do get. It s like something all of a sudden sets you up whether you think you can move or you re a dancer or not. Those waters within our bodies are sometimes touched by a mantra in such a way that we re just lifted up on to our feet and we begin to sway and move. Well the way we knew my mother was coming back to life was this swaying that started to happen as she was listening to the mantra. I think this is what s possible. 9

10 So the invitation today listeners is to let us find that space as we move into the next part of our time with Deva and Miten because of course we re not going to have them here just talking about mantra. We re going to hear and experience this ancient practice together. Let it be what it will but the invitation for me these days is to feel how the sound strikes us, how it begins to move the energy in us. If we are indeed 70% water and we are and the earth is 70% or more water, there is a connection between the sound and the waters and maybe we can experience that today. Because that s common, the element is common amongst all life, with our soundings, with our speech, with the words we use and the song we sing, we can have an impact on life in a beneficial way. So I m setting that out there as an invitation as we switch then to you, Deva and Miten, to share your sounds with us. Okay. So we will begin by chanting a universal peace prayer. Maybe it s a mantra for universal peace and we will begin with that invitation and then we will continue with om, shanti, shanti. The first thing we will do is a mantra for universal peace, which your listeners can absorb and hopefully feel the vibration of. Okay. And then right after is we have just a moment of silence after that and then we can move into a mantra that we can all chant together, which is om, shanti, om. So there s just these two words om and shanti, shanti means peace like Miten already said so that we can all tune into together and we will sorry. We will do the counting. So we will do it 108 times, which is the auspicious number of repetitions. So that s om, shanti, om. [Chanting] [0:34:13] [0:35:29] Let s keep our eyes closed for a moment and just take a deep breath in the belly. I can still feel the vibrations in the body. And our whole energetic system still vibrating with the sounds om, shanti, om. We see our smile manifest on our faces. This is something that is the fragrance comes through the smile. I do feel the smile indeed. Uh-hum. 10

11 And there is that tendency to not want to break the silence. It is great. Don t break it. Yes. You never have to break it. You never have to break it. I love that. Well you know, we re not really invoked Myra with the sound of the [0:35:53] [Indiscernible], the silence of the graveyard. That s not it s not that silence. When we re in an ecstatic silence, it s totally alive. We re aware of every sound. We enjoy god s orchestra, the ocean, the sound in which we are born. So yeah, we don t want to look on it as a serious tradition. I mean maybe it once was, but this world that we find ourselves in now, the world of information, we have access to mantra. You know, once these were secret codes and now we have access to them thanks to god being the infinite. I guess you know there is so many good things about the internet like this call we re having right now. You can explore. I think one thing for your listeners I would recommend or I would suggest is be curious, be inquisitive, be childlike, be in wonder and then magic happens. You know, because if explore from the space of being curious then god is always there. God is always totally here waiting for us all. Uh-hum. What s new? What s new for you? I know that the 21-day journey was as you say it was a challenge. You didn t see yourself as teachers but you really did teach during that period. You ve just announced that you will have a chance to go through the journey again. It s already recorded. It s there for us forever. We can tap into it. But what will be your next edge in the exploration of mantra or this music? Well one thing that will happen with the 21-day online mantra meditation journey is that it s actually already been translated into Spanish. So we can actually so everything has been reproduced so that people from Spanish speaking countries can also hook up and join us. That s one thing that has been -- We re really, really so happy because we know that there s so many people in south America and I m sure lots in America are Spanish speakers and love the mantras and enjoy the mantras. So to be able to make that available in that way, it s going to be like translated you know, we hear our voices but there will be a Spanish translation following each 11

12 one of our statements and [0:38:42] [Indiscernible]. So it will be much more accessible. And then there s the regular tour schedule, which takes us from Australia. We usually start out here in Australia and do some concerts down there and then we go to Costa Rica, the Blue Spirit Resort and where we share two programs, one called In the Light of Love which is again an opportunity for people to come together and chant and have a holiday. Then we do European tours where we play all through Europe. That takes us to many, many countries. And then in the fall like now coming up soon, we will be coming to the USA for our annual tours and then we will go back to Australia and do it again. [Laughs] [0:39:36] [Indiscernible] That s just about the migration pattern you know. Uh-hum. And we have just finished here in Greece in Corfu, there s a program called Tantra Mantra. This is very close to our hearts as well because it s just for couples and it s a way for couples to dive deeper into their loving connection through mantra and through tantric meditations. We do it together [0:39:59] [Indiscernible]. It s always such an amazing journey to go through with about 40 couples from different countries and reconnect and to celebrate that connection in a deep way. [0:40:16] Uh-hum. And -- We do that also in Costa Rica every year in March. That s so -- So you know our -- --collection. Yes. Uh-hum. And we are so happy with our new album that we just put out this year. It s called a Deeper Light and we felt like it may be reflects the shift that we ve experienced as we moved into You know, like last year 2012 for us personally, we had a lot of changes. Actually all pretty smooth but definitely big changes, you know, like after 10 years a 12

13 whole new team around us and now we are celebrating anew and it somehow struck a notch deeper. You know, it feels like we are even more connected and we are even more living in the sacred altogether. So that s why we called the album A Deeper Light. It s a recognition of the universality of this shift that happened at the end of Your team certainly did change and those sounds I feel the new energy of it. I m looking forward to -- experiencing some of that live when you come to the US in the fall and to experience that. You have a third wonderful person adding this very unique sound, yes? Do you want to talk about that? Yes. We have two musicians now. We have our very talented and wonderful Nepalese Bansuri Maestro. Bansuri is the Indian bamboo flute and the Indian bamboo flute connects the earth to the sky. Bansuri Maestro, he s a young Nepalese man who plays the most exquisite flute. He s renowned actually. He s one of the best in the world and we re very happy to have him with us. So he brings the earth and the sky also to the gatherings and we have a keyboard player who brings in the earthy sounds of the earth like the bass sounds. So we have the whole spectrum of sound covered somehow and so it s just service, you know. It s like how can we most create a space that is inviting for people to chant with us. That s our objective. So we create the most beautiful landscape for our audience to walk through. That s how we see our lives. Uh-hum. Uh-hum. Wow, well it succeeds and I m looking forward to the next round. I want to be sure that if there s anyone listening that wants to join in the conversation that we give you an opportunity to do that. Otherwise, we re just going to continue until we ve withdrawn out of here in this hour. So if you would like to, the way to raise your hand is to hit *2 and that way we will know you re out there and you d like to make comment or ask a question and Lindsey, you just let me know when we have that and just chime in. Otherwise, let s keep this conversation going. We have a hand up I believe. I should just zip my lips. [Laughs] 13

14 Lindsey: Participant: [0:45:10] Okay. We ve got it looks like [name withheld] live on the line. Go ahead with your question. Hi. My name is [name withheld]. I m from Seattle, Washington area in the United States and thank you all so much for having this today. I ve done a little bit of work with mantras. I ve also done some chatting and found them to be very powerful experiences. You know, I want to tell you something that I m going to take on and that is what I heard mentioned earlier the three rounds of om in the morning and the three rounds of om before bedtime. You know, especially in this busy world that can feed in on us, that s something incredibly it just seemed incredibly powerful for such a small quantifiable time element. So I want to thank you for that. I want to thank you all for that. I was also fascinated to hear that you re taking this into prisons because as part of Summer of Peace I have a very great interest in restorative justice and I can see all kinds of healing coming out of that when you mentioned rooms of men falling into tears and it creating the sacred site within you. Lastly, you know, I have never thought that both our bodies, individual physical bodies as well as the earth we re 70% water so that just fascinates me. I want to make sure I heard something right from earlier and that was I heard 108 repetitions of om, shanti, om. Did I hear that right? Participant: Participant: You have that right. 108 is a very auspicious number because it s the number of the main energy lines that we have in our bodies according to the Vedas. We have you know, they re called nadis. They re like meridians of energy and we ve got 72,000 in the body and 108 are the main ones. So when we chant the mantra 108 times, we really you know, drench our whole system with the energy of the mantra. We flood with energy lines with the mantra. That s wonderful to know. What was the word that you used? Now I heard meridians but I heard you use another word before that, I thought I did. Nadi. Can you spell that for me? N-A-D-I. 14

15 Participant: Participant: Participant: Participant: Thank you so much for that. The 108 the reason I asked about that is in another spiritual circle I m in, I heard that number mentioned in terms of enlightenment and evolution so I wanted to make sure I heard the number right. Bless you all. Thank you so much. I appreciate this. Thank you. And I so appreciate the work that you re doing and translating that to Spanish because that s a language I m actually learning to bridge my communication to other people so Namaste. Great. Thank you [name withheld]. Thank you. One thing [name withheld] if you re still listening, with your question about the mantra om in the morning and the evening, I also just wanted to give you a heads up on this one because this is a very powerful mantra to chant silently. If you make the sound Okay. If you actually close your lips to the om sound and you will find it can help and it can energize, it can relax. It s such a powerful medicine. So enjoy that and you know the [0:47:58] [Indiscernible] --the 108 is you know, the rosary beads from Christian faith are beads. You know, it s -- Lindsey: It s a recurring very auspicious number that has many, many different significances to it. Okay, great. You can Google it. There s a lot you can find. 15

16 Lindsey: Lindsey: Participant: [0:50:41] Participant: So just checking the comments that have come in over the webcast, we have [name withheld] who says much love to Deva and Miten. I participated in the recent 21 mantra challenge and have continued to chant every day both alone and along with the downloads. Look forward to seeing you at bakti fest. Oh, good. And we also have a comment from or question from somebody who s calling in from Oakland California. Go ahead. Hi. This is [name withheld] actually in Berkeley. I also just really want to thank you, Deva and Miten, just for the just the purity of the energy that you re bringing into the world and just for giving your unique gifts in the way that you are in a big stage. I just feel it strongly as a heart offering to say thank you. I just wanted to share too, today s meditation I had an interesting experience when we moved into the om shanti part. Almost immediately like I felt my back sort of straighten up and a feeling that came into me was sort of like being part almost of something like an army, sort of the feelings I was getting with one of tremendous strength and power. And was feeling that connection with everyone on the call but also as you re saying earlier with the all this people over the years who have stood up for peace in the world and also perhaps all those to come who are part of that wave. So it was almost like this very, very clear and strong sense of channeling that peace force through these qualities of strength and power. So it s very inspiring and that was unexpected to me for it to go in that direction. So thank you very, very much. That s beautiful. Thank you [name withheld], that s very, very beautiful. You know, it s interesting because in our concerts now, we actually chant one mantra 108 times and what we do we suggest that the whole theater sits up with their back straight so the audience with their spine straight. It creates such a different feeling of intention when we sit with our backs straight and I think that s part of what you experience there with the mantra om, shanti, it s a feeling of intention. Because without intention, what is it, you know, what s it worth. So that s fantastic. Great. Thank you. 16

17 Lindsey: See you in Oakland. [Laughs] [Laughs] All right. Lindsey, any other comments out there? No. That s all we have so far. Okay. Good. Well I just want to be sure in you know, where we ve gotten an instruction. You really are natural teachers, you know. It s the most exciting part about what s happening and so we want more of that. I ll just speak for everyone. We want your sound to continue and we want more of this instruction of how to really bring it into our ordinary lives. Because it s as you say it s not just you know, this very serious stoic thing that s secreted away. It s now in the world for us to use and I feel it is a technology. It is an absolute ancient wondrous technology. Uh-hum. There is enough of us that really do feel that we can live in a world where there is a subtext of peace that is dominant in our lives and that shapes our experience. This is one way that we can approach that, that reality is through the sounds that come out -- --of our mind and ion our thoughts, in our speech. This 21-day journey I think is not over. 68,000 participated and registered? Wow. Uh-hum. You know, that s quite a big drop in the great ocean. And I m ecstatic that with fall that we will see it in Spanish. I m just shocked. I wasn t expecting that. So -- No. We re so happy that it was possible. 17

18 [0:55:10] And so quickly. That s really great. Truly, truly. And so in these final moments before we say goodbye, I d love for you to just think about this bit of time that we ve shared together and the intention and purpose for it. Let s just everyone sort of tap into that space. Then I want to turn it over to you both to offer your last words whether it be in mantra or in whatever form you wish to take us out of this hour and into this greater intention of building this field of peace that builds toward this culminating moment September 21 st. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think that the best thing we can offer now is the Gaia tree mantra and it s the mantra, it s probably the oldest mantra known to humanity and it s a prayer actually for the enlightenment of all beings. Deva was born to this sound of her father chanting this mantra and when her father left his body a few years ago, Deva was chanting it to him as he took his last breath. It s the most sacred mantra that s been with us ever since we met and Deva chanted it all through her childhood. So it s so much integrated in us. I think that the greatest gift we could share now with you Myra and your listeners is to hear Deva chant the Gaia tree. Thank you. [Chanting] Let s just take that with us into our day and into the days that follow. I want to thank you all for listening. I want to thank Deva and Miten for being with us today and I want to mention the website for more contact with Deva and Miten. It s Next Sunday in this series, we will continue same time. Please join us for spiritual approaches to creating peace in the Middle East, July 28 9:00 a.m. Pacific daylight time. Join us. We thank you all again for being with us and keep the mantras close. Maybe they become a practice toward peace. Thank you, Deva and Miten. Enjoy. More blessings. Namaste. All blessings. Continue blessings on all your journeys. Uh-hum. Thank you. Thank you. 18

19 Namaste. Namaste. Namaste. [0:58:23] End of Audio 2013 The Shift Network. All rights reserved. 19