Everything Under The Sun: Spreading Love, Gratitude, And Oneness Through Music

Nimo and some of the children who toured together in 2012.

He's as American as any one of us, received an Ivy League education, then went straight to Wall Street. He was living the American dream, the son of parents, who grew up in India and immigrated to the US. He even had his opportunity for fame and fortune, becoming an MTV rap star, this man, "Nimo", Nimesh Patel.

But there was still something missing. He abandoned the life he had established in the US and headed into the foothills of the Himalayas. There, he meditated and was guided into a simpler life, a life of service to others. He moved into the Gandhi Ashram and devoted his life's work to the children of the slums.

Rather recently, he reconnected with his talent and roots in Hip Hop music, but in a different way, emphasizing kindness, gratitude, service, and joy. He provides this gift of love, oneness, and peace through song, in a sacrifice he calls EMPTY HANDS MUSIC. "Empty hands" refers to the way everyone arrives and leaves this life, both times with empty hands. The emphasis is on how we choose to live the life in between.

Nimo took his music on a pilgrimage through the UK and the US, which lasted for seven months. He was spreading his message to various communities, a message of selflessness, planting seeds of goodness and opening hearts to service. Two years before that tour, he had traveled with 16 children from India's slums, with the same message.

Yes, Nimo is still traveling and bringing his message to others. It's not just English-speaking communities where he stops now. In September his music and his message of kindness and gratitude to a small town in Germany, at a local school. Although the songs were in English, they were translated into German, with a spirit of love. And, yes, the teachers and the families, who were also present, received that message with open arms, bringing them closer together, and also closer to others around the world.

In May there was a visit to the community of Infinite Love, part of the town of McAllen, Texas, near the border between Texas and Mexico. The community of Infinite Love started out of tragedy, founded by four mothers - three sisters and a cousin, Two members of the family had died from cancer, a nephew became paralyzed from the waist down by an accident, and the marriage of one of the women had ended after 18 years. That caused them to ask some deep questions about life, and they were able to struggle through the difficulties, beginning the process of healing. The experience caused a shifting of views into seeing the entire world as family and a wish to serve that enlarged family with love, thus the formation of their charity, Infinite Love.

Nimo (rear, center) with German schoolchildren he visited.

Invited by this wonderful group of human beings, Nimo stopped by for a visit. Here, he found an example of that message that he's been spreading around in his travels, an outreach of love, an ability to turn darkness into light. Deeply rooted in the concept of service, these women, these families are transforming McAllen through their example, one heart at a time.