A few years ago a friend invited me to his house to meet Baba Ram Dass, someone whose book Be Here Now changed my life. I had actually met him before, in Amsterdam when I worked in the meditation center there in the 70s, but I was eager to meet him again. I was the first guest to arrive and soon after me Ram Das and his friends got there. One guy walked over to me and said, "You remember me?" He looked familiar, but I didn't. "I'm Jeff Kagel," he said and then I remembered. I remember that every girl I ever wanted to go out with in college was in love with him. He was a folk singer then; now he's Krishna Das, the master of kirtan, Hindu chants to the glory of God. I wound up going to see him do a live show and it was great and I've been listening to his uplifting music ever since. This track, "Namah Shivayah" (translated as Pilgrim Heart") I found on a 2004 release, Greatest Hits of the Kali Yuga but it was originally released on one of his earliest albums, Pilgrim Heart in 1998.