 There's pieces of paper, some not enough, but you have them all. Okay, so those have the munchers on them. And there's also a QR code that you can scan with your phone and you can go to a Google Doc that has the munchers if you want. So you can just pass them out and just share them. There's only 15. And before we get too far into the logistics, because I realize I just introduced a job for everyone. Well, I'll just let it happen. The horse has left the barn. So we will be singing some songs in a kind of traditional Kirtan call-and-response way. Sometimes I'll be singing to you from my heart in English and sometimes we'll all sing together. And you don't have to feel like there's a right way or a wrong way or a right time or a wrong time. You can sing. There'll be some things that are structured, but it's okay to just sing. It's okay to harmonize. It's okay to make any kind of sounds. Kirtan is a devotional practice. And for me it's like a centerpiece of my spiritual life. It's my conversation with the divine. And somehow there's this communion that happens in the midst of this conversation. So I invite you to... You're not just saying words. You're not just repeating sounds. You're in a conversation. You're calling out to someone that's real. And that one that's real will respond, inevitably. And it's often in the silence at the end that there's this kind of pulse where you can feel that. But not only then. I invite you to close your eyes just for a minute so that we can just sink in together before we start. And there's a luminous silence that is underneath everything. Stillness that's everything that moves from your thoughts to the biggest elephant. Underneath all of that is stillness and silence. Luminous stillness and silence. And your mind doesn't have to be still in order to feel the stillness that's under it. Your mind doesn't have to be silent in order to touch the silence. So when we sing together, we try to touch that silence and sing from that place. Allow the sound to come from the depth of silence. Ready? You can open your eyes. The first song that we sing is Om Namah Shivaya. And it's going to start in a call-and-response format. So I'll sing and then you all sing back. And Raquel will sing with you at the beginning. And then it's going to go into the second mantra, which is not call-and-response. So it's a little bit of a longer mantra and you can just sing along or not. And then the last mantra is very simple and easy and I think it'll be easy for you to sing along. Before the Amrit came, this poison came and came out of the churned ocean. And this poison would just destroy the universe in a second. Just the whole thing done. And Shiva grabbed it and stopped it from going down into his stomach. And so his throat is blue and he's called Nilakanta. And that name, Nilakanta, it's not just blue throat. It's the one who drank the Halahala poison. It's the one who took all the darkness in the universe. All the force of destruction and took it upon himself. There's a story in Paripur, Parvati asked Shiva, Why are you so ugly? Why are you so nasty? I'll ash all over you and nodded hair. And he said, I take everything that no one wants. Everything that's discarded, everything that's thrown away, everything that people reject and refuse, I take it and I embody it and I take it into myself. And people think of Shiva as this kind of like force of destruction. But Shiva drank the Halahala poison. Shiva put his dreadlocks down when the Ganga was pouring towards the earth to prevent the Ganga from destroying the earth. And when Kali was rampaging through the universe, he laid down in front of her. It's like immense compassion and self-giving. That is Shiva. When we were singing that together, I felt that in sonic form. That compassion. Thank you for singing this song that was inspired by something that Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, he was like 75 when he came to the U.S. on a boat with no money. And he had, I mean I don't know if this is true, you know how they do about spiritual stories, but apparently he had like five heart attacks on the boat. And he pulled into the harbor in New York and he wrote this prayer. He said, I'm like a puppet in your hands. I'm yours completely. He had no money and he had five heart attacks on the way there. And he's in New York City and it's like 1970s. And this is the founder of what is now a worldwide movement, you know, with millions of adherents. That's the beginning, that's when it started. I'm a puppet in your hands. So this is a song to Krishna. And there's going to be parts in English that I sing and there's going to be mantra parts that you can sing along. Om Vishna Ve Nama Ha. It's actually not on the sheet, but that's one of the mantras. Om Vishna Ve Nama Ha. Can you say that? Om Vishna Ve Nama Ha. Om Vishna Ve Nama Ha. And then the Hare Krishna Mantra will come, which many of you may be familiar with. But it's there on the page if you are not. Great Tanya who said, you know, understand all the rituals. Just anybody can say, hey God, J. Ram Hare Krishna. It's this kind of democratization of spirituality that has happened in all the spiritual traditions. When things get too rigid and the priests come and say, you have to pay me if you want to talk to God. And then, you know, this other movement, this counter movement comes that's like, no, God is for everyone. And it's the beauty of Kirtan in a way was through just folk traditions and merged with folk music and connected to people in where they are and offered a direct line to the divine for everyone. The next song that we're going to sing is a prayer that Sri Aurobindo gave to a devotee. The devotee asked Sri Aurobindo for a mantra and it's an English mantra that's a prayer. We're going to sing that and it's on the page there. And also, hey mama, J. J. Ma. Do that too. Hey mama, J. J. Ma. Woman, mind, mind, mind. The words are in English, the kind of just shivoham. For those of you who have the paper, if you don't have a paper, you can maybe find somebody close to you or has one or maybe... This is like proclamation, a declaration that we make life. I am the heartbeat of the universe. I am the love that's holding all. I am the breath within everything and I am the fall. So you can read, but I think there's mixed feelings about it. And thank you to Vidya Mandir, of course, to Devan and Shalini and Aurobindo and those who are holding this space and invited us to be here. Thank you so much.