The Power of Mantra to Transform Us from the Inside Out.
A conversation with Bhajan Singer Nina Rao. Written by Anjula April 2, 2018

Levitating Monkey: How did you first come to be interested in learning traditional chants (bhajans)?

Nina Rao: My grandfather, who was a civil engineer for the British government in south India also happened to be a self-taught talented bhajan singer, bansuri flute player, and chanted bhajans by south Indian composers. When we visited our ancestral home, as a young girl I noticed his harmonium and asked him to play something and
for the first time we sang bhajans with him. Around that time, he also had satsang at home for certain festivals and family
and friends from the village attended and I was enthralled to notice that even the youngsters knew the bhajans and could
lead them easily and it didn’t matter how great a voice you had. Those were my first experiences of the transportive power
of sacred chanting, and then we left India and I never chanted again…

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