A music composer, Satya's education didn't go too well because he was performing throughout the year in Finland. "I was a star and magazines had put me on the cover," he says. Hearing about Amma's visit to Sweden from a friend, he travelled to Stockholm to meet her. "It was an intense experience. I asked her whether I could come to India. She advised me to finish my studies (degree in eco-tourism) first." He studied 16 hours a day and finished his course in two months and went to Paris and met Amma there. "She agreed this time and I came down here about five years ago. During my initial six-week stay, I learnt more about Amma and that my life is connected to hers." After joining the ashram, he stopped singing, thinking it a past life. But Amma insisted that he should sing. "She told me to sing about spiritual things instead of the material concerns which were my subject," he says. Now a member of the bhajan group, he amazes people with his rendering of Malayalam songs.
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Mikko Von Hertzen was his name and in
German that means, 'from the heart'. Don't worry about the
pronunciation. The 30-year-old musician from Helsinki is now called
Satya.