After playing for many years in Luther McKinnie's Kirtan at his home and the Self Realization Fellowship Hollywood temple, we wanted to find some way to continue in his footsteps. We established the Cosmic Chants website in order to emphasize the benefits of spiritual chanting. We also constructed a temple on our 17 1/2 acre property in the west San Fernando Valley in California, where we will offer Kirtan and Bhajan performances.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Luther McKinnie was an active member and spiritual presence in the Self Realization Fellowship Hollywood community for over 30 years, until his passing in 2002. Although Luther was born into a poor farming family, he left this world as a saint – a man of wisdom, love, and abiding joy. Against incredible odds, he overcame the limitations of poverty, racial prejudice, and the weaknesses of human nature to achieve a blissful soul knowledge that many aspire to but few have attained. For those many devotees who knew him, none will ever forget the blessing of attending his weekly meditations and the devotional power of his kirtan chanting.
