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February 2026 · Kolkata

Sister Nivedita University · Newtown, Kolkata

Honoured by the University,
Then Asked to Sing

Beyond the monastery, the Kolkata visit brought SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID to Sister Nivedita University in Newtown — where SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP was invited to pray over the university and bless its students; where both founders received a university award; and where, on a separate day, they were asked to minister in song at a funeral service, singing from Psalm 39 — "LORD, make me to know my end."

★ At the University · The Prayer & the Blessing

A Prayer Over the University, a Blessing on Its Students

Beneath the name of Sister Nivedita University and the portrait of the saint it is named for, SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP was invited to speak — and chose not to give a speech, but to pray. Standing with J AARON K DAVID and the university's leadership, she lifted a prayer over the university and spoke a blessing upon its students.

Watch · SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP Prays Over Sister Nivedita University & Blesses Its Students

The Prayer

Words of Faith, Offered to a House of Learning

Asked to address the gathering, SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP did not deliver remarks — she prayed. Beneath the university's name and the portrait of Sister Nivedita — the disciple of Swami Vivekananda who gave her life to the education of India's young — she lifted a prayer over the institution and spoke a blessing upon its students: over their studies, their character, and the futures being formed under that roof. J AARON K DAVID stood beside her, and the university's leadership received the words in the spirit they were given.

That a faith leader from Singapore would be welcomed to pray over an Indian university — before its faculty and its students — speaks to the trust SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID carry into the rooms they enter: received not as visitors to be hosted, but as voices a community is willing to be blessed by. Her prayer is best heard in her own voice — in the recording above; the heart of it, lifted over the students, ran like this:

"Every one of you — spirit, soul, body: every unhappiness, every trauma, every pain of your life, deleted within one second. As I pray to the Heavenly Father, your sorrow, all your pain, your trauma will be deleted — immediately."

SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP · Her prayer over the students · Sister Nivedita University · February 2026
01 The University · Named for a Servant of Kolkata

A House of Learning with a Heart for the Poor

Sister Nivedita University takes its name from the Irish-born disciple of Swami Vivekananda — Margaret Noble — who gave her life to the education and care of the poor of Kolkata until her death in 1911. It is a fitting place for SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID to have been received: an institution whose founding memory is service, and whose community would, within the same visit, both honour them and entrust them with its grief.

02 The Award · Sister Nivedita University

An Honour from the University Named for a Saint of India

Sister Nivedita University conferred a university award upon SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID in the presence of senior monastic and university dignitaries. The conferment was filmed and is preserved in the project archive.

SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID with the delegation at the entrance of Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata

At the University Gates

Received with the Senior Delegation

Sister Nivedita University · Newtown, Kolkata · February 2026

At the university entrance, SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID were received alongside the senior delegation — including the venerable monastics who had hosted them across the week's observances — before being led inside for the conferment.

The recognition extended by an Indian university to two visitors from Singapore reflects the standing earned across the Republic Week mission: from the Buddha Spiritual Park in Nagpur to the Walking-PEACE procession in Kolkata.

03 A Separate Day · The Funeral Service

"LORD, Make Me to Know My End"

On another day during the same Kolkata visit, SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID were invited back to Sister Nivedita University — not for an honour this time, but for a moment of grief. At the funeral service for the mother of Mr. Satyam Roychowdhury, the founder of Sister Nivedita University, the two were asked to minister and to comfort the bereaved — and to help set spirit, soul, and body free, that the departed's soul might soar to heaven. They sang "Lord, Make Me to Know My End" to carry spiritual awakening, restoration, and deliverance to all who had gathered.

Psalm 39 · 4

"LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am."

Watch · The Full Ministry · “Lord, Make Me to Know My End” · Funeral Service

SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID singing in ministry with hands raised at the funeral service stage, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata, February 2026
SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID singing on the funeral service stage before the floral memorial, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata

SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP & J AARON K DAVID · Ministering in Song · The Funeral Service

The Ministry

A Psalm of David, Sung to Awaken and Restore

The funeral of the mother of Mr. Satyam Roychowdhury · Founder, Sister Nivedita University · Kolkata

"Lord, Make Me to Know My End" — drawn from Psalm 39, on the frailty and brevity of human life — is a song SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID authored and composed themselves. At the funeral they sang it not as a performance but as a ministry — to carry spiritual awakening, restoration, and deliverance into a room heavy with grief, and to turn a service of mourning toward hope.

As the ministry closed, SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP blessed the gathered audience — speaking comfort, restoration, and deliverance over every heart in the room. That she and J AARON K DAVID would be entrusted to minister at so private a moment — the funeral of the mother of Mr. Satyam Roychowdhury, founder of Sister Nivedita University — is its own measure of the standing they hold: received not as guests to be photographed, but as people who can be trusted to carry weight when weight must be carried.

SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP speaking a blessing over the audience beside Mr. Satyam Roychowdhury and the portrait of his late mother, funeral service, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata

SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP · Blessing the Gathered Audience

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Lord, Make Me to Know My End

Psalms 39:4–7 · 38:15 · Hebrews 2:10  ·  Key of D Major

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Lyrics

LORD, make me to know mine end,
and the measure of my days, what it is;
that I may know how frail I am. (2×)
what it is;
that I may know how frail I am.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;
and mine age is as nothing before thee:
verily every man at his best state
is altogether vanity.
Surely every man walketh in a vain show:
surely they are disquieted in vain:
he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not
who shall gather them.

And now, LORD, what wait I for?
my hope is in thee.
For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear,
O ADONAY my ELOHIM. (2×)

You are never alone,
for I am always with you.
You are never alone,
for my hand will carry you through.

Reflect on my rainbow,
for I am always with you.
Reflect on my rainbow,
for my hand will carry you through.

I sent you to the world, to be perfected, through many trials.
Do not be distracted, by the voices of the world,
set your eyes on the cross. (2×)

Repeat Verse 1

Honoured by the university on one day; trusted with its grief on another. SHEKINAIH SIEW SIN YAP and J AARON K DAVID were received at Sister Nivedita University not only as guests to be celebrated, but as voices the community could lean on.

Sister Nivedita University · Kolkata · Republic of India · February 2026

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