Concert by Virtuoso Tabla Player Samir Chatterjee with His Wife, Sanghamitra, on Harmonium
On 25 July 2007, virtuoso tabla player Samir Chatterjee<html><a href="#fn11" id="fnref11">11</a></html> offered an outstanding performance with his wife, Sanghamitra, on harmonium and voice, at Aspiration-Ground meditation garden. Sri Chinmoy then honoured them as part of the “Perfect Oneness of the Sun and the Moon” lifting series. Excerpts from the evening follow.Sri Chinmoy (after Samir performed solo on the tablas): Now with your soul’s permission, my dearest brother-friend Samir, I would like to exploit you for a few minutes. I will be singing a song. You kindly accompany me. This is my humble request.
Sri Chinmoy sings _“Ami Jabo” and Samir Chatterjee accompanies him on tablas.12 _The Singers then perform a song Sri Chinmoy composed in honour of Samir on 30 April 2005.
Sri Chinmoy: In the lifting world we have opened up a new series: “Perfect Oneness of the Sun and the Moon.” You are the sun, and your wife is the moon. I would like to lift both the sun and the moon together. Previously I lifted you separately with two hands, each of you. Now this is my offering to you. I would like to lift both of you together with my right arm, and it is called “Perfect Oneness of the Sun and the Moon.”
Singers perform “Oneness, perfect oneness of the Sun and the Moon” and “Lifting Up the World.” Sri Chinmoy lifts Samir Chatterjee and his wife, Sanghamitra.
Sri Chinmoy (before reading from his book about Dilip Roy, _My Dilip-Da Adoration<html><a href="#fn13" id="fnref13">13</a></html> _): I wrote a book about Dilip-da and my personal connection with him at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. I would like to offer you a copy of the book. How kind he was, how much affection he lavished upon me, when I was a teenager!
Sri Chinmoy reads from the book and then he and Samir speak in Bengali. Following are the words and music to “Samir” and “Ami Jabo”.
Samir Chatterjee is a virtuoso tabla player whose compositions and writings are widely acclaimed. He is the Founder-Director of Chhandayan, an organization dedicated to promoting and preserving Indian music and culture.↩
This collaboration is one of the special performances in the recording “Sri Chinmoy Sings Ami Jabo – Five Selected Performances.” “Ami Jabo” was a song Sri Chinmoy frequently performed in his Peace Concerts.↩
Sri Chinmoy, My Dilip-Da Adoration. New York: Agni Press, 2007. Sri Chinmoy called Dilip Kumar Roy, the Golden Voice, one of his heroes.↩
