The lady with Buddha-like features is standing in water with a palmful of water in her right hand.
This is how you made a solemn vow in the Vedic culture. This rendering is from 1980’s in Pune.
Westerners loved the spirit of gentle but firm resolve of the austere lady. Add to that Mumbiram’s aesthetically delightful, spiritually potent, harmonious rendering. Everyone felt she was ‘Age of Aquarius’ incarnate.

When Mumbiram arrived in Berkeley for the first time in 1967 he had no idea that he had landed into the vortex of a ‘cultural revolution’. All of America was experiencing what in hindsight is called the “Counter Culture of the 60’s”. San Francisco and Berkeley across the Bay were leading the waves. The song Age of Aquarius had become the theme song of that super-charged atmosphere.

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius !

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius !

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind’s true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!

Astrologically, this Great Age is of harmony, egalitarianism, understanding, innovation and intellectual curiosity It is culturally more intellectual, networked, and integrated around the globe.
It is an age of love, light, humanity, new ideas and a broad perspective.

Mumbiram’s arrival to America in Sept 67 was nothing less than Providential !
It had happened at the right time without being planned so.