A red-letter day!

Yes, our new recording of Swami Kriyananda’s Christ Lives: An Oratorio was officially released today! You can find it HERE.

Equally thrilling was the return of Jyotish and Devi to Ananda Village, after more than three months (which felt like forever) in Italy, the Netherlands, and India.

The entire community met them as they arrived at the entrance to the Village late this morning. I had hoped to find a pic to share here, but it seems that nobody — not even one of our usual photo-happy folks — thought to pull out phone or camera.

On the one hand, I wish I had a photo. But on the other hand, I appreciate that we were all just in the moment, being with Jyotish and Devi, giving them our undivided attention.

The truth is that I specifically grabbed my phone when I got out of the car for exactly that reason. But I didn’t think of it once while we were all there.

Below is the next best thing — a photo of Jyotish and Devi just before they caught the flight home from Mumbai.

An experience beyond words

That’s what tonight’s performance of Christ Lives: An Oratorio was: an experience beyond words!

In fact, we had to invent some new ones to capture how we felt when it was over.

Instead of “shell-shocked”, we were “JOY-shocked”; and instead of gobsmacked, we were “GOD-smacked.”

It was such a powerful experience that I can’t even write about it yet.