Journey in Satchidananda

The opening track of the album, recorded at home on 8 November 1970 with Coltrane on harp, Pharoah Sanders on soprano saxophone and percussion, Cecil McBee on bass, Rashied Ali on drums, Tulsi on tanpura and Majid Shabazz on bells and tambourine. It grows out of McBee's bass line, with tambourine and tanpura beneath the harp, and Sanders's soprano mirrors the harp in a trance-like weave.

The title honours Swami Satchidananda, whose name joins the Sanskrit words for being, consciousness and bliss. In her album note she asked listeners to imagine themselves floating on an ocean of his love. Impulse! issued it as a 7-inch single split into Part One and Part Two. WhoSampled lists Black Moon's Enta Da Stage (1993) as looping its bass. Matthew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra recorded it for BBC Radio at Maida Vale and released it in 2015, and Brooklyn Raga Massive, Alina Bzhezhinska, Shane Parish and Ganavya have recorded it since.

Live

It opened her first concert as a leader, at Carnegie Hall on 21 February 1971, stretched to fifteen minutes; that show was released in 2024. It opened again at the Berkeley Community Theatre on 23 July 1972, at over 21 minutes, released in 2019. Ravi Coltrane has played it live. The upload in the hypersongs web is the album version.