Today My Mind Has Dived has a melody and structure similar to Door of My Heart and At Thy Feet, so it can feel familiar quickly. Take care, though, to learn which lines repeat and which do not.

Cosmic Chants writes the first syllable, “To-,” as a pickup, with “-day” on beat one. That shifts the feel of the song by one beat and distinguishes it from Door of My Heart and At Thy Feet. An adept kirtan leader may want to keep that phrasing. In kirtan, it is also fine to treat it like Door of My Heart, with the first melody note on beat one. A future edition of Cosmic Chants may write it that way.

Song Form

A Today my mind has dived deep in Thee. x2

B For Thy pearls of love from Thy depth-less sea. x2

A Today my mind has dived deep in Thee.

C If I find not, I will not blame Thy sea;

D I will find fault with my diving. x2

The form is 16 bars in 4/4, but it has an asymmetric feel: A is sung twice at the beginning, but only once when it returns in the second half.

Notes

• C is sung once, and D is sung twice.

• For a repeat section, the leader can alternate between C and D several times, keeping D’s repetition each time.

• A natural line to repeat for the ending is A, “Today my mind has dived deep in Thee.”

Listen to SRF Recordings

Audio Recordings

• Today My Mind Has Dived, from the album In the Temple of My Heart
  Spotify · Apple Music · Tidal

• Today My Mind Has Dived (instrumental), from the album I Am the Sky
  Spotify · Apple Music · Tidal