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Dear Swamiji, In 1978-80, Sri Yesudas was doing Ganamela in his initial stages, Smt Hemalatha was singing with him. Hema’s father Mr Purushothaman was my close friend (now he is no more). He used to say that Yesudas and he shared one room and Hema in next room. They come late after Ganamela but Yesudas woke at sharp 4 am and chant with japamala almost one hour without put on light or disturbing him after that he sleep again. Most of the days Mr Purushothaman knew this and one day he asked him and he replied his mother told him to do this without fail and after this in the morning he do the music practice also daily. Mr Purushothaman used to say that this practice is the reason for his jump in music world. Hemalatha is doing hindustani music for balai troups in N.Delhi now. Recently her son died in Kargil war and Delhi govt offered her free licence for fuel pump which she rejected and told i don’t want to do any business at this stage and i shl live with music. Just informed this. My question is one of my friends son is doing sadhana (music practice) daily morning. He is asking whr this sadhana will serve the purpose of meditation and pranayama as meditation is focusing the mind on one event and pranayama is controlling prana. Whr this can be achieved in sadhana. Pls advs.