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Twameva Mata Cha Pita Twameva is a devotional composition from the 2026 biographical film Shree Baba Neeb Karoli Maharaj, directed by Sharad Singh Thakur and starring Subodh Bhave as the revered saint Neem Karoli Baba. The musical arrangement is credited to the trio of Jai Uttal, Asif Ali Chandwani, and Madhusudhan Singh Solanki, with Raghav Shukla adapting the ancient Sanskrit shloka — drawn from the Pancha Shloki — into a cinematic devotional soundscape. The song serves as a spiritual anchor in a film celebrating the life of a 20th-century saint who inspired seekers across cultures.

The composition adapts the timeless Pancha Shloki verse attributed to Adi Shankaracharya into a contemporary film-bhajan format. Jai Uttal's involvement brings a cross-cultural spiritual sensibility — Uttal is an American kirtan artist long devoted to the Neem Karoli Baba lineage, making his participation musically and spiritually apt. The arrangement uses harmonium and tabla as the devotional backbone, with strings providing warmth. The tempo is deliberately unhurried, mirroring the patient, accepting quality of the saint's teachings.

The Sanskrit shloka declares God as the totality of all relationships — mother, father, brother, friend, knowledge, wealth — and the sole refuge in this world and beyond. The verse's power lies in its radical simplicity: the devotee has no one else, and in that complete emptiness, finds everything. Raghav Shukla's lyrical adaptation retains the verse's Sanskrit dignity while ensuring accessibility for a Hindi film audience.

Director Sharad Singh Thakur wove this ancient shloka into the film as a recurring spiritual motif — it was reportedly one of Neem Karoli Baba's favourite prayers, which he taught to devotees regardless of religious background. Jai Uttal, who had personally sought blessings from Maharaj-ji's ashram in Kainchi (Uttarakhand), brought an authenticity to the musical setting that pure Bollywood composers might not have achieved.

Neem Karoli Baba's global following — which includes tech visionaries like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg who were influenced through Ram Dass — ensures that any film about his life will find international attention. This devotional song, with its Sanskrit universality, is likely to outlast the film itself as a piece of meditative kirtan.