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There is something both revelatory and startling about hearing the devotional music of Alice Coltrane. Having dwelt in obscurity for so long, heard only in musty corners of the internet or passed from hand to hand on cassette, the recordings Coltrane made at her Sai Anantam Ashram in Agoura, California after she'd turned away from the secular world and her jazz career are like opening a portal to another time/space dimension. Music nerds and new age collectors knew about them in the 1990s, circulating the worship tapes and CDs privately pressed by the ashram's in house label, Avatar Book Institute. Their plainspoken titles: Turiya Sings (1982), Divine Songs (1987), Infinite Chants (1990), Glorious Chants (1995) and unpretentious word-processed artwork barely hinting at the extraordinary music they contained traditional Hindu devotional chants, swirled through the vortex of Coltrane's musical incarnations, from the lush harp glissandos and Indian percussion she'd brought to spiritual jazz, to her earlier classical music studies and the Detroit gospel blues she'd grown up singing in church.

As Alice Coltrane's monumental influence as a spiritual jazz pioneer began to be felt after her death in 2007, so did awareness of the cosmic sounds she'd made as Alice Turiyasangitananda Coltrane, or Swamini to her avid students. Her great-nephew, Flying Lotus, who grew up attending her Sunday services on the ashram, began to champion her music and bring it into the realms of hip-hop and electronic music. Once belittled by custodians of jazz history, who'd scorned her as a handmaiden to her late husband John Coltrane's genius, an imitator at best; the story of Alice Coltrane's own genius began to be written, with first a trickle, then a flood of praise for her extraordinary, exultant, almost impossibly beautiful music. Her towering albums from the early 1970s Journey in Satchidananda, Ptah, the El Daoud and Universal Consciousness have been recognised as spiritual jazz masterpieces, whose mastery and vision are delivered with a purity of intention which leaves no doubt as to the deep connectedness between Alice Coltrane and her source.

To listen to these ecstatic chants is to open a window onto a private world of a community under the gentle sway of a guru without ego; a humble teacher who literally gave herself and her manifest musical gifts over to a higher power.

And slowly, a cultural awareness has grown of her devotional music which was never intended for audiences outside the community of her ashram. Made with the sole intention of accessing the divine, of elevating herself and her community into a sublime state, this music is the purest manifestation of the higher consciousness into which she'd ascended. Neither hushed nor monastic, this is music that sounds incredibly alive a joyous cacophony of blissed out chanting and gospel-like shouts of praise amidst the dizzying swoop of Alice's synthesiser, at once ancient and futuristic, like the sound of exploding stars. To listen to these ecstatic chants is to open a window onto a private world of a community under the gentle sway of a guru without ego; a humble teacher who literally gave herself and her manifest musical gifts over to a higher power. And with the first major reissue of the ashram tapes, via Luaka Bop's World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, and a new iteration of the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers soon to perform one of only a handful of concerts worldwide at Melbourne's Supersense Festival -- Alice's radiant cosmos is expanding into mainstream consciousness.

To those of us on the outside listening in, this music may sound otherworldly; but to Surya Botofasina, who grew up on the ashram and is now Music Director of the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers, it sounds like home.

"This music has shaped me," Botofasina affirms, "in the sense that it's what my soul feels as home; and even physically, it's where I feel home."

As a child, Botofasina soaked up the music taught by Swamini, as he calls Alice Coltrane; his mother, Rada, can be heard singing in all the choral sections on the World Spirituality Classics recordings, and provided many of the archival photos documented in the Luaka Bop liner notes. And the mantras which vibrated through his childhood on the ashram have carried him into his adult life as a musician living in New York City.

"This music has helped me tremendously, when I was going through times that I didn't know how to navigate", Botofasina recalls. "As a young man growing up in the city, when I moved here in New York, or just trying to figure out different reasons and seasons, and why I feel certain ways. And this music helped me celebrate, and really be grateful for, the most precious moments in my life, like the birth of my children, or marrying my wife. This music was very much part of every single one of those days. So in that sense, this music has always been the soundtrack of my life."

Reminiscing about the music Coltrane conjured on the ashram, Botofasina notes that she was "very old school. There weren't handbooks or choir sheets; she would sing the note in front of someone, and then they would reproduce it back." In the Vedic chanting traditions, Coltrane would sing a call-and-response with her choir. "Everybody followed her. There was no better leader to follow," Botofasina enthuses. "It was truly like it was from a higher source."

The journey to the heart of the ashram recordings was a more circuitous one for Yale Evelev, the president of Luaka Bop Records who oversaw the World Spirituality Classics project. A jazz aficionado whose musicology runs deep, Evelev had been an Alice Coltrane fan since the 1970s, but had dismissed her devotional music. "I thought about Alice's ashram performances as something that wasn't going to be that interesting, you know?", Evelev remembers with a chuckle. "I didn't go that deeply into it, until I ran into a DJ friend on the street, and I asked him what he'd been listening to, and he said 'Well, to be frank, I just listen to Alice Coltrane tapes every day'. And I said I'd heard a little bit of them, but they didn't really affect me. And he said 'You really should listen to all of them'. And once I listened to everything, I was just blown away.

"I hadn't really realised what an inventive music it was, and how special it was. I wasn't really ready for it when I first heard it," Evelev reflects. "But at this time that the world is in right now, it just feels like this is the perfect time for this sort of music to be more available to people. We all need something super positive, you know? I think right now because of the state of the world, people are responding who might not have been quite so open to it before. It really just has an incredible power."

Botofasina sees the power of Coltrane's music as an expression of her spiritual commitment. "I think the power of the music comes from her absolute devotion to living in a higher state of consciousness," he states. "Just to connect with the divine, and to transmit that to all of us. The true power for me, in growing up with it, was just the sheer connection that one really felt to a divine higher power, and the positivity you could feel in that kind of space."

Chanting in a group, as heard on Coltrane's ashram tapes, can transform an individual's consciousness. "Everybody has different reasons for why they want to invoke something through chanting", Botofasina explains. "There's a term in Hinduism japa which means the repetition of the names, reciting a name to invoke some specific good. Like if somebody is repeating the name of Ganesh, the Hindu god depicted as an elephant, it is to remove an obstacle, usually an ego-based obstacle.

"We might be trying to work on various aspects of our self, or to express our pure devotion, or just our ability to feel like we have enough strength to get through the next day. Just like human life is a personal experience, so is the experience that one has when they truly invest themselves in chanting."

Botofasina sees something of this personal experience in Evelev's confession of how slow he'd been to appreciate Coltrane's devotional music. "I think Yale touched on something very interesting about chanting, in that it's a really personal experience", he reflects. "Something that's profound doesn't hit everybody at the same time with the same impact. You might feel it a week from then, a month from then... years from then. As Yale mentioned in his experience, maybe he wasn't ready for it in the 1980s or 1990s.

"But now here we are, close to 2020", Botofasina marvels, "and this music feels almost brand new, to our emotional landscape... and our political landscape. And I feel an incredible amount of dedication, of loyalty and more than anything, just gratitude, for being able to be so close to this music for so long."

'World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda' is out now on Luaka Bop via Inertia. The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda will be performed by the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers at Supersense Festival in Melbourne on August 19.

Sophie Miles is the co-founder of independent music label Mistletone

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Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reached the Ashram of Sant Ravidas at Maihar and after visiting the temple offered flowers at the Samadhi of Guru Parameshwar Prakashji. Chouhan also reviewed the construction work of the huge temple of Sant Shiromani Ravidasji at the Ashram premises. The construction of the temple is being undertaken as per CMs instructions at a cost of Rs 2 crore. Minister in-charge Om Prakash Durve, MP Ganesh Singh, MLA Narayan Tripathi, Ramesh Pandey Bam Bam Maharaj, peoples representatives and senior officials were present on the occasion. Chouhan said on the occasion that he had come to bow down at the feet of Sant Shiromani Ravidasji. He said a huge temple of Santji would be built and its construction work will be completed on time. He said that Sant Ravidas Mahakumbh would be organized in the state this year also like every year. The venue for the Mahakumbh will be decided after discussion. The Chief Minister planted a Pipal sapling at Sant Ravidas Ashram.

The Chief Minister, Chouhan was accorded a warm welcome on his arrival in Satna at the local airstrip by AYUSH and Minister of State for Water Resources Harsh Singh, MP Ganesh Singh, Mayor Mamta Pandey, Narendra Tripathi, public representatives, workers and local persons.

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The Supreme Court today refused to allow a woman, who claimed to be a victim of sexual assault, to be a party in a pending case regarding alleged sexual harassment of some inmates at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry.

"We cannot allow you to intervene in the pending case at this stage," a bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud said.

The former inmate had moved the court seeking its nod to be made a party and alleged that the girls and women were being sexually assaulted in recent times as well.

The court is hearing the petition filed by another former inmate, who has sought a judicial probe into the ashram's affairs.

The row dates back to around one-and-a-half decades when a female member and four of her sisters were expelled from the ashram for violation of rules following which they levelled the allegations.

They challenged their expulsion upto the apex court, which in 2014 ruled that they be evicted.

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August 2, 2017 - By Dolores Ford

Shares of ASHRAM ONLINE.COM LTD. (BOM:526187) closed at 1.18INR yesterday. ASHRAM ONLINE.COM LTD. currently has a total float of shares and on average sees shares exchange hands each day. The stock now has a 52-week low of 1.18INR and high of 2.6INR.

The Indian stock market is one of the fastest growing equity markets in the world today. While it currently makes up only 12% to 14% of the countrys gross domestic product (GDP) far from the 70% corporate sector making up the entire GDP of the US, Indias corporate sector is rampantly thriving to become one of Asias leaders.

As of this month, nearly 8,000 companies are listed on the Indian equity market. More than half of these are listed on the two main stock exchanges in India combined the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), representing about 4% of the countrys GDP.

Regular session on both the BSE and the MSE starts at 9:15 a.m. and concludes at 3:30 p.m.

The BSE, having been established in 1875, is the first stock exchange in Asia. It is also the first to acquire a permanent recognition under Indias Securities Contract Regulation Act of 1956.

Presently, the BSE is the 11th biggest stock exchange in the world with a total market capitalization of $1.70 trillion as of January 23, 2015. Moreover, it is also considered as one of the fastest stock exchanges in the world with a speed of six microseconds.

The BSE first touched its four-digit figure on July 25, 1990; the 5,000 mark on October 11, 1999; the 10,000 mark on February 6, 2006; the 20,000 mark on December 11, 2007; and the 30,000 mark on March 4, 2015, an event that was driven by the efforts of the Reserve Bank of India. ASHRAM ONLINE.COM LTD. is a stock traded on the Indian stock exchange.

The biggest declines on the BSE happened during the onslaught of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and when the Chinese central bank had suddenly moved to devalue the yuan. On January 21 and 22, 2008, the BSE has lost more than 2,000 points while on August 24, 2015, it has dropped over 1,700 points.

The SENSEX 30 is the free-float index that measures the 30 most active stocks on the BSE. It weighs stocks based on liquidity, market capitalization, floating-stock-adjustment depth, and other factors.

The NSE was founded in 1992 as the 1st demutualized electronic stock exchange in the country. Presently, it supports about 230,000 terminals throughout India. The NSE is owned and operated by the Indian Index Services and Products (IISP).

The NIFTY is the index that measures the 50 most active stocks across 24 industries on the NSE. Consequently, it covers a broader portion of Indias corporate sector than the SENSEX 30. ASHRAM ONLINE.COM LTD. has relatively good liquidity.

The NIFTY has a base value of 1,000 and its base date is 1995. Like the SENSEX 30, it comprehensively weighs stocks based on liquidity, market capitalization, among others.

Investing in BSE and NSE stocks is strongly recommended for investors today. As the Indian economy continues to grow and become one of Asias biggest, it only makes sense to start betting on its equity market as early as now. Professional analysts might be interested how this will affect ASHRAM ONLINE.COM LTD..

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The think tank and the ashram The Hindu Last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the centenary year celebrations of the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. Between the official rhetoric of Gandhi and the disturbing silence of the civil society lies a huge void that one needs to talk ...

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AHMEDABAD: Commander-in-chief of Myanmar Defence Forces senior general Min Aung Hlaing began his two-day visit to Ahmedabad on Sunday . The commander-in-chief arrived at Ahmedabad on Sunday along with his wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, Myanmar Defence Forces and 15 other delegation members. The Myanmar delegation was received by General officer in Commanding of Golden Katar Division Major General Anil Puri. The commander-in-chief and along with his spouse visited Sabarmati Ashram and Riverfront on the first day of their visit. The commander-in-chief and his wife were very impressed by the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Spokesperson Wing Com mander Abhishek Matiman said commander-in-chief Hlaing and the delegation were enthralled to visit the focal point of `Non-violence' conceptualized by Mahatma Gandhi."The delegation was particularly impressed by the scenic beauty of the Sabarmati River front." said Wing Commander Matiman. Commander-in-chief Hlaing is scheduled to visit various commercial sites including Amul Dairy plant at Anand, TATA Nano factory at Sanand and Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute on Monday.

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Mysuru, July 10:- Science Ashram, a city-based hands-on science education centre is conducting Young Innovator Hunt 2.0 shortly.

The first Young Innovator Hunt(YIH) was conducted last year and students from National Public School, Excel Public School,Pushkarni,Podar Intl. School, SVEI , Hari Vidyalaya, Acharya Vidya Kula, Rotary Brindavan, TLC, East West InternationalSchool, JSS Public Schools and a few government schools in and around Mysore city participated.

Like last year, this year too, Science Ashram has posed a scenario from Anglo-Mysore War II, wherein a British battalion was defeated.

The primary reason this battle was won was because of the scientific approach towards problem-solving and high order thinking skills used. This reasoning of Tippu Sultan gave rise to missile technology.

NASA has displayed a painting of this battle scene in their centre in the US. This was recognized by late Dr Abdul Kalam at Wallops Flight Facility, the base for NASAs Sounding Rocket Programme. The participants will be narrated this story and will be asked to devise an innovative solution assuming that they are in the times of Tippu Sultan and are fighting against the British from the island town of Srirangapatnam.

This type of problem/scenario-based question is known as project based learning. It creates immense curiosity-making children self-directed learners.

Each participant, as a token of appreciation, is given a fidget spinner from Science Ashram. The winnersare given an opportunity to visit ISRO and HAL along with the Science Ashram team. Interested Schools may contact Science Ashram: 99808 78105 or [emailprotected] (MR/KK).

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This desire to visit India wasnt terribly original for me. I had watched the movieEat, Pray, Loveand read the book (twice). There is a scene where Julia Roberts character says to her friend (and I paraphrase): I used to have a hunger for my life. And its just gone.

It didnt take much more than that to set me off on a quest to find that hunger again lest I forget that I was hungry at all. At first I cried. A lot. And then I booked the very next flight I could, visa permitting, to Mumbai.

But nothing can prepare you for India. No guidebook, no expert traveller advice, no hazmat suit, and definitely no cognitive processing. India is all about heart and being with your true feelings. We are readying for landing and the plane is circling the great city of Mumbai (or Bombay, if youre with Salman Rushdie). The night is dark. The world is different here. Its magical. I cant touch it. I cant describe it, but I can feel it.

I gather my small bag and hop into the nearest yellow-and-black rickshaw. Without a word, the driver takes off, dashing through the crowds of people, the dust and the life I have just uncovered. As we bounce over potholes, the Bollywood jingles amplify as the stereo underneath me vibrates. The gods are all with us tiny statues of Ganesh (my elephant friend) and Hanuman (my monkey friend) stare at me from the dashboard. Theyre crowned with flowers and shiny raffia, which creates some kind of talisman that will either make us drive faster or protect us from crashing. Perhaps both?

The next few days flash by as I immerse myself in the local culture. Roaming the streets of Mumbai, I feast at street carts frequented by the locals. I visit a movie house to see a new Bollywood dancing hit we stand to the national anthem before the showing. I walk along the citys beaches and promenades, and ride on Parmarth Niketan Ashram the back of strangers motorbikes in the organised chaos of the city. Its humid, but the wind from the ocean finds you when you need it most.

A quick flight to Dehradun airport, north of New Delhi, delivers the quiet mountain life. Stillness after the hustle and bustle of the city. I take a taxi to Rishikesh, to be found in an area called Swargashram, which means heavenly abode. Then the river, the great Mother Ganges, is what first comes into sight, its eternal movement evident, the giving of life obvious. I walk over the bridge cautiously, and follow the signs that read Parmarth Niketan Ashram.

Founded in1942 by Pujya Swami Shukdevanandji Maharaj, the ashram attracts people from all over the world, but locals too. Everyone has a single goal, much like my own: the need to take stock of their lives.

The pink palace invites you in with a giant statue of Shiva (in male destroyer form), sitting up straight in the water, facing the ashram, as if always in meditation. I check into the ashram, as you would a hotel. I have a shower in my basic, clean, room. I attend ayogaclass with a man thats over 100 years old, doing gentle asanas. I sit cross-legged on the floor in a communal dining hall, eating dinner with my right hand. I dream of the gods.

Mornings start with a yoga class before light comes to the ashram. In the semi-darkness, I walk to the big halls with their cold floors, to set up yoga mats for the other students and my teacher. Its aboutholding the position, and doing the ultimate mind work.

Meditationand chanting (in Hindi) are practised to learn to shut off the senses and go straight to the heart the head needs to be absent. The hardest part of my day is right here, of course. Body and mind have been taken care of nurtured, if you will. And therefore its time to rest the eyes, to allow the mind to process all of this newfound wisdom.

The days dont vary much, and this is the point. Your day, without your phone or even a book, becomes a rhythm. Your body carries you. Eventually my heart starts to open, my mind is clear.

I spend a few weeks, enjoying my day-to-day existence and finding pleasures in small, almost menial things, such as my daily seva (cleaning as service to others) of washing yoga mats and sweeping. I feel a deep sense of peace. It doesnt come cheap: silencing the monkey chatter of my mind has come at the price of early mornings, hard studying (which includes letting go of so many of my Western ideals), and endless yoga andbreathing(pranayama) classes that arent easy.

I run into the ashrams director one morning and beam as I share how content I feel and how happy I am. She smiles quietly at me. Well, she says. Its easy here at the ashram. What else are you going to do?

At first I am stunned. Easy? This?

And then she adds: When you leave next week and go back into the real world, that is when the work starts. Off with my egos head.

She tells me to stand in the freezing-cold water of the Great Ganga that moves down the Himalayas at a rather rapid pace, until I let everything that ever held me back from my truth completely go.

Wearing just my underwear, I stand in the water meditating. I stand for a long time. A. Very. Long. Time. I lose myself, my ego, my religion, and every judgment I have ever had about myself. I watch with my minds eye as the water takes it all away. I emerge from the water next to the statue of Shiva (now my mirror). I am no longer the version of myself I held so dear. I am no longer the persona of myself. I emerge with a hunger for this life and I am finally a witness. A witness of myself.

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A group of Muslim women led by social activist Nazneen Ansari sought blessings of Baba Balakdas, Chief priest of Patalpuri Mutt here, on the occasion of Guru Purnima on Sunday. The women offered a flower and angvastram to Baba as a mark of respect to him.

Ansari along with other Muslim women, including Khursheeda, Nazma Parveen, Nargis, Shabana Bano, Nisha, Rizwana and Asman presented a copy of Aarti of Lord Ram she penned in Urdu. While other women presented angvastram to Baba.

Moreover, Guru Purnima was celebrated across the city with religious fervour. Pupils visited their respective gurus and offered prayers to them. Gurus offered blessings to their pupils. In Vidya Mutt, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati gave his blessings to devotees. At Baba Keenaram Ashram, Peethadhishwar Baba Siddharath Gautam Ramji offered blessings to the pupils.

A few foreigners too sought blessings of their gurus. The celebrations continued all through the day. The devotees from far flung areas visited their gurus. Pupils of Baba Adgadanad visited him at his ashram in Shakteshgarh. Many visited Garhwa Ashram and sought blessings of chief priest Baba Sarananand. Many others sought blessings of Sankatmochan Temple chief Vishwambhar Nath Mishra.

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By Our Representative Gujarat police on Friday detained two senior farmers leaders, Sagar Rabari of the Khedut Samaj Gujarat (KSG) and Alpesh Thakor of the OBC Ekta Manch, along with some of their colleagues soon after they began a 25-km farmers footmarch from Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad to Gandhinagar, the state capital. They were demanding farm loan waiver. The footmarch, which began at Khet Bhavan near Gandhi Ashram, first went to the Gandhi Ashram, where farmers garlanded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi. However, no sooner they moved out of the Gandhi Ashram and proceeded towards Gandhinagar, they were stopped by the cops standing off the Ahmedabad district collectors office. The police said the reason for the detention was the organizers did not taken requisite permission for taking out the rally. The farmers leaders, however, said they were forced to begin moving towards Gandhinagar in a peaceful rally because they were not granted permission, which is normal in Gujarat today. Jayesh Patel, president KSG, said, The Gujarat police routinely deny permissions, and cracks down on protests in the state, which has become a norm. The voice of dissent in Gujarat is sought to be smothered and democratic rights of people are under stress. Giving reason for starting the farmers protest rally, Patel said, The issues of farm distress in Gujarat are multiplying. Farmers are committing suicide, reeling under the enormous burden of nearly two decades of neglect of the farm sector by the ruling dispensation. He added, Instead of addressing their issues and, at the very least, entering into a dialogue with them, the state government is using every repressive tactic at its disposal. The agitation was organized part of series of protest actions rallies, demonstrations, footmarches to highlight the pitiful conditions of farmers in the state at various locations in Gujarat. On Wednesday, police detained hundreds of farmer-activists across Gujarat after they poured thousands of litres of milk on roads, demanding a waiver of all farmer loans in the state, where essential commodities have seen a sudden spurt in prices. Led by Alpesh Thakor, the agitation was dubbed Doodhbandi and Doodh Roko. Thakore also heads Kshatriya Thakor Sena. Thakore and 50 supporters were detained in Ahmedabad after his group blocked roads and poured hundreds of litres of milk on the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, which connects Ahmedabad with the state capital. The agitation was simultaneously held some several other towns. Earlier, On July 2, a group of 100 middle class women led by Hetal Parikh, were denied permission to hold demonstration at two different spots, after which they went and sat on dharna at Gandhi Ashram. Parikh told Counterview, We wanted to hold peaceful protest against Goods and Services Tax (GST), which has affected women most. However, Parikh said, No sooner we sat in Gandhi Ashram with banners, the police came and dismantled the banners and asked us to go, telling us that if we did not go, we would be detained. We had no other option but to move out.

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