From Vol 6: Miten’s ‘Dancing in Your Garden’

Miten and Tanmayo reminisce about the first song in the album Let Love Grow of Gopal’s compilation, ​Songs of Gratefulness – Inspired by Osho

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Songwriter: Miten (© Prabhu Music prabhumusic.com)

Vocals and Keyboard/Piano: Tanmayo (tanmayomusic.com – youtube.com)

Guitar: Parijat (parijatmusic.com)

Bass: Premendra

Recorded live by the UTA Band

Sound engineering, editing and mastering: Bhakta (spotify.com / music.apple.com)

Lyrics

Dancing in your garden

Growing in your love

I love the sun, I love the rain

Living in your laughter

Laughing in your love

I love the sun, I love the rain

Osho, what can I say?

Osho

A Happy Birthday song

by Miten

Dancing in Your Garden came from my time in Medina, the English commune. It was actually a birthday song… I wanted to say “Happy Birthday” to Osho in a playful way that would make him smile. We all loved to see him smile!

The lyrics include: “I love the sun, I love the rain”…which of course every garden needs in order to blossom… and the words: ‘What can I say?’ just leads me – as usual – to the Zen koan, that words are never enough when thanking the Master. But still we have to find a way. So in the end, all I could say is ‘Happy Birthday!’ which always made us smile when we sang it.

And the second song in this album is Falling Leaves. It was the first song I ‘wrote’ for Osho – it came to me during my first year in Medina. It was a time of great release and creativity for me inspired by a long period of living as a sannyasin and choosing not playing music. I needed to heal from the wounds of the musical career I’d made for myself, in London, and the thought of being a ‘musician’ was the last thing I wanted to identify as.

It took around a year before I picked up a guitar again, inspired by meditation and the great music group in Medina. And again, there’s the impossibility of putting into words what I was feeling. All I wanted to say is wrapped up in: “All I can say is I love you” – That was it. This feeling didn’t require any great poetic verse… the truth was there in “I love you” and the falling leaves of the busy mind as they drifted away.

“Osho… what can I say?”

by Tanmayo

In the year I was singing in UTA, it would mostly work like this: there would be a spontaneous decision by the musicians when we met for rehearsal… often related to the instruments present that day. So yes… a song would be picked out in a pretty random kind of way. And then, whoever was there would sing it. And so on this evening it must have been me.

Of course I had my own personal ‘musical’ favorites in amongst the many Osho songs – mostly those that had a bit of a ‘gospel’ or ‘jazz’ feel. In general I always liked the melodies which were a bit more complex and where I could play around a bit more with my voice.

Yet, what would often happen is that the combination of the song – whatever song that was – joining and ‘responding’ to the powerful field of meditative hearts who were there listening – would open up a space of Grace – one in which our beloved Master could then pour through.

When I first came to Pune in 1993 it was the music that Miten and his band played after the White Robe Brotherhood that touched my heart the most. I can still remember that first experience after one of the evening meditations. It must have just ended and a silent stream of white-clad meditators were making their way out of the entrance. I remember stretching my sleepy and slightly frozen limbs, pulling my shawl around my shoulders, picking up my cushion and starting to follow… when suddenly music started at the far end of the hall. It entered my body so strongly, filled me with rapture and love – and in that moment, it was as though the roof of the Buddha Hall itself lifted clean off – and only the stars and endless skies remained.

In the beautiful lyrics that Miten penned all those years ago there is the line,

“Osho… what can I say?”

It is this wordlessness that feels to me the perfect response to the ever-deepening dance of timeless mystery that is and remains our beloved Master’s garden.

Vol 6: Let Love Grow

Song List (Songwriters)

Dancing in Your Garden (Miten) Falling Leaves (Miten) Ocean of Life (Subodha) (aka Ocean of Joy) Love is an Invitation (Milarepa) Looking Inside (Samir & Samarpan) Dancing in Your Light (Gyanamo / Douglas Kolberg) A Man Beyond Our Fantasy (Anubhava / Peter Makena) Let Love Grow (Anubhava / Peter Makena) Your Love Overflows (Devaprem / Graham Lowndes) When I Look into the Night (Almasto) Close to You (Miten)

Links to streaming and downloads

Apple Music iTunes album: music.apple.com – Dancing in Your Garden: music.apple.com

Spotify Music album: spotify.com – Dancing in Your Garden: spotify.com

Amazon Music: amazon.com

YouTube (playlist): youtube.com

More on this album on Gopal’s website: blueskiesmusic.weebly.com

Songs of Gratefulness – inspired by Osho, compiled by Gopal

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Miten Miten is an Osho devotee, sharing Osho’s vision of love, life and laughter through music and song, with gatherings around the world, accompanied by his partner in love and life, Grammy nominated singer, Deva Premal. devapremalmiten.com