Deva Premal began her journey with mantra in her mother's womb, as her father chanted the "Gayatri Mantra"-one of the most sacred mantras of Sanatana Dharma-to her daily.
Deva Premal brought this journey with the Gayatri Mantra full circle in July 2005, when she and Miten chanted it for her father as he was dying; "We kept singing for what must have been over half an hour, when suddenly the monitor showed that he was about to leave.