Miten: The Heart of a Devotee
Sandra Sedgbeer: What do you feel when you listen to a piece of your own music?
Miten: There’s a sense of redemption and humility in there; I’m kind of speechless because, as a musician, there’s nothing better than a feeling that your music is being appreciated. People would tell us, we gave birth to my kids with your music, much magnificent silence, or the “Gayatri Mantra”, and “Ashes to Ashes”, that song that you wrote, that’s what I played that for my father at his funeral, we were all crying and it was so beautiful. And so I’ve found a kind of a place where I feel comfortable to put music out that I know is going to be used for very auspicious moments in people’s lives. I never really used it myself, consciously for that until I had my heart operation and, my body was in a traumatic state, but my mind was okay. I had about a period where I had to deal with the trauma, and I did that through cathartic procedures that I’d learned in my time with Osho in the Ashram and doing different meditations that he’d given us to help eliminate emotional stress from the body. I had one night when I was just all night, really, I realized I needed something. I realized I need my own medicine now. We lay down on the bed together, and we just cuddled out and fell asleep with this beautiful music. We woke up the next morning, the Sun was shining, coming through the window and it felt like, oh, I’m reborn. It was the rebirth, the whole thing that happened at that time.
Sandra Sedgbeer: I love the fact that, as you had your heart surgery and then you went on to, within a very short time afterward, you were also presenting your life Facebook events series on the medicine of mantra. And you’ve got to experience that medicine for yourself. I mean, you give it out, and it comes back to you isn’t perfect.
Miten: That’s absolutely perfect. In that 21 day meditation that we did the meditation every day for 21 days. That was incredible for Deva and me, we would take a candlelit in the evening and sit together, and we would decide what mantra we were going to talk about. What we did, it very spontaneous. We just sat there, and we would talk, and then we would challenge it. We put it out online, and we had 200,000 people registered to do that with us. It made us realize, wow, you know, there is hope.
Sandra Sedgbeer: From all the songs on this album. If you had to sort of just one to play as you lay dying, which one would it be?
Miten: I think it would be “Bring Me Your Love.”
Sandra Sedgbeer: Yeah, that’s a beautiful one, and I’m sorry we didn’t have time to play it, but I’m sure if people go over to your website they may be able to listen to it, a little clip from it. Miten is always a joy to speak with you, and I always end feed-in like we haven’t talked for long enough, but I’m sure from your end, we’ve certainly talked long enough. Thank you for taking the time to be with us today.
Miten: Thank you so much sandy. I wish you all the best. Take care of yourself.
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Devotee, the new CD from Miten can be found at https://devapremalmiten.com/ and Facebook @Devapremalmiten
