ASHRAM: The Spiritual Community of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda | 4:3 Feature Films
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2019
- The Sai Anantam Ashram was founded in 1983 by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, on sacred and serene land in the Santa Monica Mountains of Agoura, California.
Through the years, a multi-ethnic and multi-generational spiritual community emerged. One of the high points of this very special and loving environment took shape on Sundays, when Alice, also referred to as Swamini or Turiyasangitandanda by her family and students, would lead the community in a musical ceremony. Swamini took traditional Sanskrit chants and mantras, along with original compositions, and interwove them with her gospel roots, classical training, and dynamic avant-garde harmonics to create an extraordinarily powerful and unique sound.
In the spring of 2017, film-makers Vincent Moon and Priscilla Telmon were invited to make a contemporaneous portrait, of this very welcoming and beautiful spiritual community, which included speaking with some of the community's elders, as well as Alice's sister, singer Marilyn McLeod.
The Sai Anantam Ashram’s temporal location ceased at the end of 2017, and sadly all of its buildings were destroyed in the California wildfires of November, 2018.
However, the spirit and essence of the Ashram continues, and the work of Swamini Alice Coltrane Turiysangitananda still keeps spreading.
Om.
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For more information about the Sai Anantam Ashram, please visit TheVedanticCenter.org
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Hello and Pranam, I'm writing this all the way from Calcutta, India to let you know how profound, sublime and intense an effect Swamini's music has on me. How could one blend Kirtana and Gospel so immaculately? I do not know. Gorgeous video, and the music? So, so powerful! I love kirtan and bhajan and jazz too and I learnt about her a year ago when I heard the piece Turiya and Ramakrishna. What a piece! And now, this!! Truly, she was a divine soul, I wish I had been there but you know what? The music just took me to where you guys were chanting. Awesome, awesome, awesome. My deepest respects to all of you.
I love how you articulated your appreciation. It was beautiful to read. God Bless x
👍🏻 the Calcutta born saint from your very country India had been instructed by his guru Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur to go to the West and preach harinam sankirtan to the people there. His countrymen could not accept his dynamic revolutionary honest plain and child like mercy. He had to travel to NYC by cargo ship, during which 35 day journey at age 70 he suffered 2 nearly fatal heart attacks. Now he is very familiar and famous in almost every country in the world.
How amazing that the two bit pieces of glass are taken to be diamonds. A real diamond can not be purchased by the ordinary person, so they settle for cut glass. But that doesn't make the diamond any less valuable because so many delusional souls have accepted an illusory thing as real.
The mission of Śrīla Prabhupada is to make every soul Happy, and once we are all happy, there will be peace between brother & sister in Krishna's family. I sincerely beg to offer the treasure house of Vedic wisdom via a cost free library : vedabase.io please have a love feast reading even a few pages.
Hare Krishna, sincerely, a friend.
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 Thank you and Hare Krishna. I hope you had a fabulous Janmashtami.
Beautiful words. I feel the same way. This is so, so wonderful.
So lovely. This is how it can be. Beautiful, connecting religious life. I feel the love for Alice growing in me more and more everyday. Om Shanti Om! 🫶🏾
Isn't this such a beautiful and wholesome meeting of souls. Wonderful. Wish I can join in with something like this someday.
I lived in LA in the 80s and occasionally saw Alice on public access tv. Today I realize I should have been at this place every week, but I was too young and unable to realize it at the time. Thank you for recording this.
This is one of my favorite docs ever made.
The Universe is a Mother. We are Her children.
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शांति
💐💐ALICE COLTRANE💐💐
Journey in Satchidananda
had to watch this in parts because it was so powerful.
The Road To Varanasi is Eternal!
Wonderful, so some reason I am attracted to her and the teaching.
I would love to access community like this today!
O how Gospel and Kirtan combine to touch the heart of this American man🙏
Exactly! Alice Coltrane’s background was playing music in the Black Baptist and Sanctified church (Church of God in Christ)
Omg this is fantastic 🥺
So grateful that you shared this video, grateful that I found it.
Thank you! I absolutley loved this video...and blessing...
OM SUPREME
Beautiful music & energetic vibrations! TY for sharing ❤️
Thank you for sharing this! 🕉
thats proper lit, content getting good great channel 🤘🏼
Amazing! thank you for this treat =) the music is insane, the blend of gospel and hindu mantras is a serious homecoming. Do you know if there were ever any recordings or an album, maybe even from the earlier days?
Yes!, "The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane". album recently released of enhanced devotional recordings from earlier days
anandam19 ahhh I’ve been hovering around that album. Awesome, thanks!!
@@anandam19 - The Coltrane estate has made all of the original albums of Turiya's divine music available on their own, as well. So, you could own all of this music without the middleman.
Beautiful
beautiful. 4:3 keep doing wonderful work
Om
lovely!
It really is.
Can I purchase a copy of this? I’m doing some research and course work on Swamini Coltrane’s music.
years ago, here, there was a film of ST in india, sitting, chanting. does someone have a link?
can I know the songs in the background?
marilyn manson - who let the dogs out....
Hare Krishna?
hi! why the place closed?
Candela Costa monuy
@@WizEL It doesn't run anymore??
@@kayfox902 I believe it burnt down during the California fires but they built a new one, saying the building itself didn't matter.
was she a follower of Sathya Sai Baba?
indeed
The music is indeed beautiful.... In spite of such a plastic imitation cheating baba as Indian born Sai Baba. Alice was very humble and her vibration is to respect to one & all, but Sai Baba is no match for her!
Actually the great maha mantra came to America not by any superficial guru, but by the cosmic and transcendental transcontinental passage across the Atlantic (on a cargo ship) to NYC in 1965 by the one and only Abhay Caranaravinda Swami Bhaktivedanta 108 Śrīla Prabhupada Mahārāja.
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 Bhaktivedanta got all his information and inspiration from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
@@tulayamalavenapi4028 Alice actually met Srila Prabhupada twice towards the end of his life. He instructed her in chanting and she only used his Bhagavad Gita translation with her students later on.