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MIAMI, FLORIDA, May 30, 2002: World renowned Yoga master T. K. V. Desikachar and his two students/children, Mekhala and Kausthub, are traveling through the United States from India on a six-concert Vedic chanting tour. On Tuesday, the trio led a crowd of more than 60 in the ancient art of chanting at the Yamaha Concert Hall inside Hale Piano in Coral Gables. ”You cannot recite based on memory,” Desikachar said. “You have to recite exactly by the fact that you’re present here now.” Kausthub Desikachar said that they had been planning the Vedic Chanting tour since 9/11. ”We’ve been trying to do something to offer to people and to ourselves,” he said. The sun and rainbow, which appeared this morning, were the first two things honored during the chants. Attendee Danielle Goodman said she had read one of Desikachar’s books, and when she found out he’d be in Miami, she thought it was “pretty extraordinary.” ”I had to jump at the chance of hearing him and seeing him,” she said. After demonstrating a chant, Desikachar asked the audience to join in and recite after him. ”That was good,” he told Mekhala and Kausthub of the chants they led. “Very good.”

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