Shares ofAshram Onlinecom Ltd. (ASHRAM.BO) are on watch as the Tenkan Line has moved belowthe Kijun line, indicating negative momentum for the equity. Ashram Onlinecom Ltd. moved0.00 in the most recent session and touched1.10 on a recent tick.

The Tenkan Line or Tenkan Sen (Sen means line in Japanese) is known as the conversion line or turning line is similar to a 9SMA but actually is quite different. Remember a SMA (simple moving average) will smooth out all the data and make it equal but the Tenkan Line will take the highest high and lowest low over the last 9 periods. The explanation for this is Hosada felt price action and its extremes were more important than smoothing any data because price action represented where buyers/sellers entered and directed the market, thus being more important than averaging or smoothing the data out. As you can see by the chart below, the Tenkan Line is quite different than a 9SMA. Because the TL (Tenkan Line) uses price instead of an averaging or the closing prices, it mirrors price better and is more representative of it. You can see this when the TL flattens in small portions to move with price and its moments of ranging.

Akin to all moving averages, the angle of the Tenkan line is very important as the sharper the angle, the stronger the trend while the flatter the Tenkan, the flatter or lesser the momentum of the move is. However, it is important to not use the Tenkan line as a gauge of the trend but more so the momentum of the move. However, it can act as the first line of defense in a trend and a breaking of it in the opposite direction of the move can often be a sign of the defenses weakening.

Turning to addtiional indicators, Ashram Onlinecom Ltd. (ASHRAM.BO) currently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -106.70. Dedicated investors may choose to use this technical indicator as a stock evaluation tool. Used as a coincident indicator, the CCI reading above +100 would reflect strong price action which may signal an uptrend. On the flip side, a reading below -100 may signal a downtrend reflecting weak price action. Using the CCI as a leading indicator, technical analysts may use a +100 reading as an overbought signal and a -100 reading as an oversold indicator, suggesting a trend reversal.

Investors may be trying to define which trends will prevail in the second half of the year. As the markets continue to chug along, investors may be trying to maximize gains and become better positioned for success. Technical analysts may be studying different historical price and volume data in order to help uncover where the momentum is headed. Coming up with a solid strategy may take some time, but it might be well worth it in the long run. As we move deeper into the year, investors will be closely tracking the next few earnings periods. They may be trying to project which companies will post positive surprises.

We can also do some further technical analysis on the stock. At the time of writing, the 14-day ADX for Ashram Onlinecom Ltd. (ASHRAM.BO) is 30.78. Many technical chart analysts believe that an ADX value over 25 would suggest a strong trend. A reading under 20 would indicate no trend, and a reading from 20-25 would suggest that there is no clear trend signal. The ADX is typically plotted along with two other directional movement indicator lines, the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI). Some analysts believe that the ADX is one of the best trend strength indicators available.

Interested investors may be watching the Williams Percent Range or Williams %R. Williams %R is a popular technical indicator created by Larry Williams to help identify overbought and oversold situations. Investors will commonly use Williams %R in conjunction with other trend indicators to help spot possible stock turning points. Ashram Onlinecom Ltd. (ASHRAM.BO)s Williams Percent Range or 14 day Williams %R currently sits at -100.00. In general, if the indicator goes above -20, the stock may be considered overbought. Alternately, if the indicator goes below -80, this may point to the stock being oversold.

Tracking other technical indicators, the 14-day RSI is presently standing at 32.60, the 7-day sits at 28.34, and the 3-day is resting at 15.91 for Ashram Onlinecom Ltd. (ASHRAM.BO). The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is an often employed momentum oscillator that is used to measure the speed and change of stock price movements. When charted, the RSI can serve as a visual means to monitor historical and current strength or weakness in a certain market. This measurement is based on closing prices over a specific period of time. As a momentum oscillator, the RSI operates in a set range. This range falls on a scale between 0 and 100. If the RSI is closer to 100, this may indicate a period of stronger momentum. On the flip side, an RSI near 0 may signal weaker momentum. The RSI was originally created by J. Welles Wilder which was introduced in his 1978 book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems.

For further review, we can take a look at another popular technical indicator. In terms of moving averages, the 200-day is currently at 1.58, the 50-day is 1.36, and the 7-day is resting at 1.13. Moving averages are a popular trading tool among investors. Moving averages can be used to help filter out the day to day noise created by other factors. MAs may be used to identify uptrends or downtrends, and they can be a prominent indicator for detecting a shift in momentum for a particular stock. Many traders will use moving averages for different periods of time in conjunction with other indicators to help gauge future stock price action.

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An ongoing tussle between the landlord and the school management led to the premises of the Ashram Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Guindy being sealed on Wednesday. The students were shifted to the schools second campus in Velachery.

C.H. Prabhakar, one of the joint owners of the building where the school has been functioning since 2001, alleged that the school had accumulated around 2 crore as rent arrears.

Mr. Prabhakar said that while their intention was not to harass the owners or disrupt the education of the children, they had decided to lock the premises on Wednesday morning. He said the owners will send a letter to the excise department stating that the institution was not functioning any more so that they did not have to pay service tax.

In a release, the school claimed that the management had already discussed about vacating the premises with the landlords, and added: We will be filing a defamation case against the landlord for making false statements to the press.

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Linoy Ashram.(photo credit:AMIT SHUSSEL / COURTESY)

Israels Linoy Ashram picked up four more medals on Sunday in her final tune-up event before the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships later this month.

The 18-year-old took four bronzes in the FIG World Challenge Cup competition in Kazan, Russia, finishing all four apparatus finals in third place.

Ashram, who ended the all-around event in Kazan in fourth place on Saturday, registered a score of 16.9 points in the hoop final on Sunday, finishing behind identical Russian twins Arina and Dina Averina, who claimed the top two spots in three of the four finals.

Ashram ended the ball final with a score of 16.2, the clubs with 16.3 and the ribbon with 16.2.

Ashram will be brimming with confidence ahead of the World Championships, which begin in Pesaro, Italy on August 29, with her success on Sunday coming on the back of a breakthrough summer.

The gymnast won two medals at the recent World Games, taking a silver in the clubs and a bronze in the hoop. She dominated the Maccabiahs rhythmic gymnastics competitions last month, sweeping all five gold medals.

Ashram also took two medals at the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary in May, finishing third in the hoops and club finals.

Ashram will now be looking to become the second Israeli to win a medal at the World Championships. Neta Rivkin, who retired following the Rio Olympics last summer, won a bronze medal in the hoop final at the World Championships in 2011.

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Israeli gymnast Ashram wins four medals - The Jerusalem Post

The school run by the wife of Actor Rajinikanth was locked by the landlord of the building in Chennai on charges that the rent agreed to was not being paid.

The school authorities said they have decided to file a defamation case against the landlord for creating immense agony to the school and issuing false statements to the media.

About 400 children of Ashram, run by Latha Rajinikanth, have been shifted to another institution.

Landlord Venkateshwaralu claimed that the management agreed to pay the rent as per a court directive till they vacate the premises by May 2018 which they had not adhered to fully.

He said the school authorities did not pay the quantum of rent as agreed to.

The management said the school was functioning on the existing premises for more than a decade and that it had faced a lot of harassment in the recent past due to the family dispute of the landlord.

It is not just about the rent but it is about their exploitation of the situation and it is about asking unfair, unreasonable and exorbitant increment in rentals which we have been negotiating and speaking with them [landlord], a statement from the management said.

The management had decided to vacate the premises and negotiations were on to settle the matter. The landlord harassed them by using the media continuously when a civil dispute was pending in the court, the statement said.

Since the matter is sub judice, we would like to record this statement. Taking law into his hands and without any information, once again the landlord has created immense agony to the school, children, parents and to the management today, it said.

We will be filing a defamation case against the landlord for making false statements to the press. Apart from that, we will wait for the law to take its own course, it said.

We request the media and the public to understand the truth, it added.

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Latha Rajinikanth's Ashram school locked by landlord for 'non-payment of dues' - The Hindu

In a fresh twist to the ongoing tussle between cabinet minister Satpal Maharaj and Madan Kaushik, the former Saturday alleged that the Haridwar mayor got the boundary wall of his ashram demolished and the garbage dumped outside its gate. He also demanded that those responsible are removed from their positions.

This comes two days after the supporters of the two BJP ministers clashed in Haridwar in which mayor Manoj Garg sustained injuries.

On one side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is appealing people to clean up their surroundings under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. On the other hand, the Mayor is getting the garbage dumped outside the dwelling places of sants, Maharaj alleged.

The dwelling place of sants in question is Maharajs ashram in Prem Nagar area of Haridwar.

I have, therefore, demanded that the chief minister order an inquiry into the incident so that those responsible for it are removed from their positions, Maharaj, a senior BJP leader said in apparent reference to the Garg and the Haridwar Municipal Corporation workers.

Garg is a known supporter of Cabinet minister Kaushik who represents the Haridwar (city) assembly constituency. Maharaj happens to be the minister in-charge for Haridwar district.

The violent scuffle, in which scores of people were injured, ensued after supporters of Kaushik and Maharaj came to blows over removing allegedly illegal structures outside the latters ashram. The supporters of the two ministers have also got police case registered against one another.

It is unfortunate that the mayor got the wall around the ashram demolished. The action was taken on the false pretext that the town was getting flooded because of the wall, Maharaj said asking how could just one wall cause water logging in Haridwar.

Maharaj dubbed the action as an act of vendetta. What got his (mayors) goat is that I got re-tendering of a car parking in the Hari-ki-Pairi area done. The mayor had rented it out for Rs 1 crore, he alleged, adding that he invited open bids and the same car parking area was rented out on contract for over Rs 3 crore. Maharaj alleged that in a review meeting of Haridwar district recently Garg had said that he should have the right to rent out all parking lots so that he could manage the affairs of the city in a better way.

He (mayor) made that observation because he intended to augment the citys resources so that the employees of the municipal corporation could be paid their salaries, the mayors brother Maneesh Garg said.

Speaking on behalf of the mayor who is admitted to a hospital, Maneesh justified the action of getting the wall near Maharajs ashram demolished. It was a correct move because that wall had resulted in water logging in the city, he said. Maneesh claimed that the Municipal Corporation employees had garbage dumped outside the Ashram gate in reaction to Maharajs supporters violent attack on them and the mayor.

State BJP president Ajay Bhatt, however, sought to make light of the issue. Not much should be read into what Maharaj has said because it was said in the heat of the moment, he said adding that the issue, which was circumstantial, will be resolved. I will speak to them (Maharaj and Kaushik) and have invited them for a meeting, he told HT.

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To boost tourism, the Uttarakhand Tourism department is contemplating a Beatles museum at Chaurasi Kutia, the abandoned ashram of spiritual Guru Maharshi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh, where members of the world famous rock band The Beatles stayed in.

Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj, announced on Tuesday that Uttarakhand Tourism department would develop a Beatles Museum at Rishikesh.

The move was probably inspired by The Beatles Story museum at Liverpool in England from where the members hailed. The Beatles Story, located in a two-storey building, is a major tourist draw.

The Beatles Story is also celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Beatles visit to India and Rishikesh next year.

"A team from The Beatles Story had visited Rishikesh sometime back to finalise their programmes slated for next year," said Raju Gusian, a Beatles' fan and journalist who helped the team.

The Rishikesh ashram situated in the Rajaji National Park was thrown open to tourists in 2015 by the Uttarakhand forest department, attracting thousands of visitors. The forest department now charges an entry fee from each tourist for their visit to the 'ashram'. Each foreign tourist is charged Rs 600 and Indians have to pay Rs 150 per head. More than 10,000 tourists visited the ashram where the Fab Four composed songs for their iconic albums like Abbey Road, Let it Be and The White Album.

The Beatles, an English rock band, stayed here in 1968 for an advanced transcendental meditation (TM) training session under spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The legendary musicians John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr stayed in the ashram.

Unused for more than a decade after the lease of the spiritual guru expired in 2000, the ashram is being developed as an eco-tourism destination and a pilgrimage place for Beatles fans.

The bungalow of Mahesh Yogi, where the Beatles stars learnt meditation, would be a major attraction. The walls have been covered by graffiti on Beatles and Mahesh Yogi to remind the visitors of the significance of the place.

Mahesh Yogi was allocated 15 acre of forest land near Rishikesh for his ashram in 1961.The Indian spiritual guru became an international name after the four singers toured India to learn meditation in February 1968.

The Beatles boys came to Rishikesh for a three- month course, but none of them completed it. Ringo was the first to leave after only 10 days. Paul stayed for five weeks while John and George left after eight weeks.

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By spinning a wheel in his Sabarmati Ashram, no one would have imagined that a simple man would spin the fate of malnourished, underprivileged and uneducated mass of people, trying to break the shackles of 200 years of British imperialism.

Draped in his Khadi shawl and dhoti, carrying a staff and showing a path to Indians, leaving their everything, unified for a single cause of a free India, Gandhi ensured that they all become part of the worlds largest and strongest democracy.

To quote Albert Einstein, Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth. Mahatma Gandhi, who evolved the philosophy of Satyagraha in South Africa and practised it successfully, landed at Bombay on 9 January 1915. And on 25 May 1915, in Ahmedabad at Kocharab in a bungalow, Gandhiji laid the foundation of Satyagraha Ashram, conveying both the goal and the method of service.

Gandhi, who was thrown off of a train in South Africa for refusing to move from his First Class seat to Third Class (even though he held a valid First Class ticket), knew that such discrimination against Indians was common practice and this personal experience gave him a reason to fight racial discrimination.

The first step towards an untouchability-free society was taken by Gandhi, when he himself admitted to Ashram an untouchable family of Dudabhi, his wife Danibehn and their daughter Laxmi, for which he faced strong opposition. All monetary help was stopped and even social boycott was threatened but Gandhi said, In the very beginning we proclaimed to the world that the Ashram would not countenance untouchability.

Gandhi conducted the Champaran Satyagraha and the strike of Ahmedabad mill-workers during this period. He left the Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March, 1930 with a vow not to return to this Ashram till India became independent.

He held consultations with the poorest of the poor and with the richest, the highest and the emissaries of the government. On 12 March 1930, at the age of 61 years, Gandhi travelled 320 km (200 miles) on foot for 24 days to Dandi to make his own salt, presenting a tough stand against the Britishers, who made it illegal for Indians to make their own salt.

Taking the final call on 8 August, 1942, Gandhi asked the Indians to do or die for poornaswaraj (complete Independence), by launching the Quit India Movement, as a result of which, India achieved Independence within a duration of five years.

Commemorating 75 years of Quit India Movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, The Independence struggle had seen people from all walks of life coming together. I urge lawmakers to rise above party lines and differences and contribute to Indias growth.

To mark the occasion, the Lok Sabha unanimously passed a resolution promising to work tirelessly in the next five years to build the India of Mahatma Gandhis dream. It was read out by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, We, the representatives of more than 125 crore people, resolve to take along every citizen in working towards building a nation as envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi and other freedom fighters by 2022, when we will celebrate 75th anniversary of our Independence. We shall remain committed and dedicated to build a strong, prosperous, clean and glorious India, which is free of corruption. We are committed to the welfare of all sections and promote harmony and patriotism.

Gandhi, a man who believed in dialogues, non-violence and truth, possessed the power to bring change in the society. To quote Gandhi himself, he told everyone, You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

It is very saddening when one realises that Gandhi is now limited only to currency notes or old history text books. To trap Gandhi and his Gandhivaadi beliefs would not only be insulting to a visionary but is also harmful to the vision of a free India. Gandhi lived his life on the 11 vows he had taken ~ truth, non-violence, swadeshi, fearlessness, removal of untouchability, Brahmacharya, control of the palate, non-stealing, non-possession and physical labour.

A country, once known as the Golden Bird, remained in the cage of imperialists for 200 years and when set free is still learning to fly high over the past 70 years. How far has India come and will go is very tough to say. But yes, Gandhivaad never failed to provide the light in the hours of darkness. As Gandhi said, I feel and I have felt during the whole of my public life what we need, what a nation needs; but we, perhaps of all the nations of the world, need just now, is nothing else and nothing less than character building.

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Gandhi and beyond - The Statesman

A SHOW taking place between 9pm and 9am the following morning may sound a bit of a slog, but what if you got a sleep? What if sleep was a key part of the deal? Helmed by Glasgow kosmische pop duo Happy Meals, Full Ashram Sleep Garden for which you are asked to bring your own sleeping bag and pillows aims to be a 12-hour communal immersion involving live music, visual art, food, sleep and yoga curated to encourage the forming of a quantum community consciousness through shared experience.

So far, so far-out. Held at Kinning Park Complex, it features a cast of similarly inquisitive DJs, musicians and artist-performers such as Sofay, synth polymaths Helena Celle and Sue Zuki, and one-offs such as gentle chanteuse Wenonoah (left), Optimo Musics Taoist-influenced instrumentalist Iona Fortune and Alex Macarte (right), drummer with industrial crew Gnod, who will perform in his droney, loopy solo guise Ahrkh.

The guidance given to musicians is that the 12 hours will be split into seven phases, each of which is linked to the alchemical stages of transformation, explains Suzanne Rodden, one half of Happy Meals with Lewis Cook.

For example, midnight to 1am is separation which will involve guided meditation and will be consciously bringing the music into a more minimal sphere.

Phase four is fermentation 3am to 6.30am and is the deep sleep phase, she continues. This part of the night may only be drones, tones and very low frequencies of sound, for example. The idea is that the music and visuals will gradually and naturally allow people to relax into deep sleep and back again.

In the morning, theres an optional all-abilities yoga class and breakfast provided by the Milk Cafe. Like the artists, the Glasgow social enterprise is volunteering their time for the event, which will donate all profits to CalAid, a humanitarian aid charity working with displaced people.

It was really important to us that inward reflection leads to outward reaction and in a way we wanted to embody that sentiment, says Rodden.

The idea of a continuous performance and a collaboration between a community of artists is a concept weve been thinking about for a long time, she says. The night is centred on the idea of complete immersion. We arent looking for there to be a distinction between artists and audience, but rather, everyone involved is a participant over the 12 hours.

We also hope that by taking away traditional expectations of what would normally be part of a performance, like clapping and conversation between sets, everyone involved will be able to drop themselves into a deep state of relaxation and eventually sleep.

Its going to be a night of incredible sounds, visuals and deep vibrations.

August 12/13, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, 9pm to 9am, 20 +bf.Tickets: bit.ly/SleepGardenHappy Meals Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony Vol IV-V is out now on So Low http://www.facebook.com/hahahappymeals

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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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Alice Coltrane's Devotional Spirit Lives on Through the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers - Noisey

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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Chouhan pays tribute at Sant Ravidas ashram - Daily Pioneer