Premal's chants have been used in a variety of settings.
It's a deep universal sound code that connects us all.”
It's not a language that you need to understand the meaning of before you use it. Just the sound ananda, If we were sensitive enough, we'd just feel the entire scope of that energy that's contained in this sound. We have to say bliss we have to make it smaller by putting it into an English word. The word table is not the table.with Sanskrit, the word ananda is the sound vibration of bliss. In an interview with Sam Slovik of LA Yoga Magazine, Premal discussed the potent effect many notice when chanting mantras: What a blessing this was for me! It was the first time that I was present at a death, and to be at my father's is a memory I will cherish all my life." He had welcomed me onto this planet with the "Gayatri," and I accompanied him out of this physical existence with it. I continued to sing, and the last sound he heard as he passed on was his beloved "Gayatri Mantra." Finally we ended with the mantra Om and the circle was complete.
Premal brought this journey with the Gayatri Mantra full circle in July 2005, when she and Miten chanted it for her father as he was dying "We kept singing for what must have been over half an hour, when suddenly the monitor showed that he was about to leave. Premal and Miten recorded The Essence (1998) in her mother's apartment in Germany, where she was born and where she first heard the Gayatri Mantra. Many years later, she heard a friend singing the Gayatri and was inspired to put together an album. The mantra continued to be her bedtime lullaby after she was born. Premal says she began her journey with mantra in her mother's womb, as her father chanted the "Gayatri Mantra"-one of the most sacred mantras of Sanatana Dharma-to her daily. Her albums have topped New Age charts throughout the world since her first release, The Essence (1998), which features the "Gayatri Mantra." Premal and Miten's record company, Prabhu Music, reports sales of over 900,000 albums. īest known for her top-selling chant CDs, Premal is a classically trained musician who grew up singing mantras in a German home permeated with Eastern spirituality. They have been touring together since 1992, offering concerts and chant workshops worldwide. Premal met her partner in life and music, Miten, at the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India in 1990, where she was studying reflexology, shiatsu, cranio-sacral therapy, and massage.